On Nov 28, 2007, at 8:50 AM, Andrew Hinton wrote: > The funny thing is, if you've ever imagined what it might be like to > be your intended user trying to *use* the thing you're designing, > you've done persona-based design.
Again, in an attempt to not overload terms, I'd say that isn't necessarily persona-based design. It is role playing, which is another important design technique and not mutually exclusive with persona-based design. It would be a part of persona-based design if the intended user were using was a persona. If it's just someone you just made up in your head, then its just role-playing. (Both are valid techniques, but have different purposes.) I would also say that persona-based design has many more activities than just role-playing. Sorry for being the namespace police, but I think its to our community's advantage to have everyone using a common language. Jared Jared M. Spool User Interface Engineering 510 Turnpike St., Suite 102, North Andover, MA 01845 e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] p: +1 978 327 5561 http://uie.com Blog: http://uie.com/brainsparks ________________________________________________________________ *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
