Hi Oliver,

Manish Pillewar kirjoitti 26.2.2008 kello 12:33:
> The persona: A close representative of the user

Indeed. Here's how I've been taught to use them:

A persona describes CURRENT behavior, with the CURRENT product or  
service or its nearest equivalent. Understanding and accepting how  
things are is essential to make rational judgments about how things  
should be. A persona is an excellent tool (among others) for this  
purpose.

The persona also describes human motivations, beliefs, desires and  
goals (etc.), which bring insight into why people behave like they do.  
This part is hard to explain (= easy to misunderstand) through an  
email, but About Face 3, pages 88 to 97, gives you more information.

> The User Story: What the persona would do to complete
> a specific task

Stories or scenarios describe how people are expected to behave in the  
FUTURE, with the NEW product or service. Also great tool interaction  
design and engineering.

How to use these tools together?

When you've finished with a user story, compare it to the persona's  
current behavior, motivations, beliefs, desires and goals. Does the  
story describe a solution that improves the current situation and is  
compatible with human goals as described in the persona?

Petteri

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