I'm the hard-core persona lover months ago for some projects. And I should say persona is a candidate design communication method, which is not the must for design.and the problem lies "if we use it properly...", so we can easily comes up with local home-made path to fake security. And the problem is not if pesona is ok or not, instead, it's if there real safe, solide way as the bed for design thinking. That's the less processed real world life(we can't avoid process in theory, but we should let it under-control and awareable). For this reason, person is not very proper. The real world life is, which deserve any kind of design analisis, which is hard to be achieved by persona.
--jarod On Fri, 13 Mar 2009 11:54:59, Mike Myles <[email protected]> wrote: > I've found personas to be a very effective tool. That said, I've > seen them done incorrectly and fail more often than not: They are too > verbose, they are not realistic (no grounding in user research), there > are too many of them for a project, they change radically from release > to release, they are driven by marketing desires rather than actual > users, primary personas are not clearly identified for features, > etc. > > Personas are a tool for focusing discussions. Good personas provide > consensus across a team on who a product is being built for; they are > concise and memorable. They should be based in research, but I've > found even a minimally validated persona is better than no persona at > all. Personas should evolve over time as more information is learned > and the market changes. > > > . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . > Posted from the new ixda.org > http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=39645 > > > ________________________________________________________________ > 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 > -- Sent from my mobile device http://designforuse.blogspot.com/ ________________________________________________________________ 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
