If you'd stick to Cooper's User Personas (http://www.cooper.com/insights/journal_of_design/articles/the_origin_of_personas_1.html), they would be completely different things:
-I would say "Profile" describes overall characteristics of the "target audience" (http://www.cooper.com/insights/journal_of_design/articles/reconciling_market_segments_an_1.html); -Personas are archetypal users, who are created based on data collected from user research on real users; but more important, Personas represent behavior patterns, not job descriptions (http://www.cooper.com/insights/journal_of_design/articles/perfecting_your_personas_1.html) For more information on Cooper Personas: http://www.cooper.com/insights/journal_of_design/articles/personas/ ... { Itamar Medeiros } Information Designer http://designative.info/ http://www.autodesk.com/ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=29805 ________________________________________________________________ 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
