Richard, How do you combine Persona's and Activity Theory? I don't see how the two are compatible. AT looks at activities through real behaviour.
If you add Personas you are adding a multitude of parameters in the middle. James On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 10:38 AM, Richard Rutter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jared your points reflect a conversation we often have here at > Clearleft. We say we do UCD, but ask ourselves do we really do ACD? I > reckon the answer is both. Or more particularly we do ACD with a UCD > wrapper. That is to say we do user research and personas, but only > enough to give useful context for the subsequent ACD. > > So the research and persona development is activity-focused. It's > used to determine the activities that need to be designed and > provides the settings in which that activity might occur. > > In your example of a photo sharing site, one activity would almost > certainly be to upload a photo. Our research and personas would > indicate whether users would be happy uploading one photo at a time > or whether there should be a batch (instead or as well). It may even > identify that uploading is not viable for the majority of users, and > that an alternative solution would need to be developed. > > The point is that the UCD is limited to informing the ACD, thus > avoiding dogmatic processes and freeing us to be able to choose the > most appropriate tools to the job at hand. > > [Expanded upon at http://clagnut.com/blog/2208/] > > > . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . > Posted from the new ixda.org > http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=35466 > > > ________________________________________________________________ > 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 > ________________________________________________________________ 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
