Hi everyone, I just joined this discussion group a few weeks ago and I've been reading them non-stop :) I just started a position and I'm beginning to do a re-design of a desktop application. I was assigned with the task of redesigning the user interface, but the application as a whole is kinda of a mess...it is just features packed on top of features packed on top of features and there is no cohesion of the application as a whole.
So I planned to interview a bunch of different users and non-users to find out some behaviors, and after all the planning, I found out I am unable to do the interviews...but I can do a multiple choice survey that we can blast to our user base. I am really hesitant to come up with personas without doing background research, although I do have a "gut" feeling of who the personas will be. Is it possible that the results of this survey will hurt persona development, rather than help it? Are there any other ideas of how I can learn about behaviors without interviews? One thing I was thinking was basing them off of different types of people I know (friends and family). Thanks! --mike ________________________________________________________________ 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
