Jared: NICE. Thanks for sharing that link. If the research below makes anyone (re)consider user personas, in the past week I wrote about how I struggled with how many user personas we needed for a massive software suite (600+ commands). I also happened to throw in some advice about how to get them reviewed. http://fivesketches.com/2009/05/how-many-user-personas/
-=- Jerome -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jared Spool Sent: Thu, 28 May, 2009 5:03 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [IxDA Discuss] Nice Research on Persona Effectiveness I know that members on this list are dubious about using personas in the design process. Here's a nice, solid research paper by Frank Long at NCAD in Dublin that shows how they can improve team dynamics: > Real or imaginary: The effectiveness of using personas in the > product design process. > > As you know, the use of personas as a method for communicating user > requirements in collaborative design environments is well > established. However, very little research has been conducted to > quantify the benefits of using this technique. > > The aim of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of using > personas. An experiment was conducted using students from NCAD. The > results showed that, through using personas, designs with superior > usability characteristics were produced. They also indicate that > using personas provides a significant advantage during the research > and conceptualisation stages of the design process (supporting > previously unfounded claims). > > The study also investigated the effects of using different > presentation methods to present personas and concluded that > photographs worked better than illustrations, and that visual > storyboards were more effective in presenting task scenarios than > text only versions. > > The research: http://is.gd/I5Zk Jared Jared M. Spool User Interface Engineering 510 Turnpike St., Suite 102, North Andover, MA 01845 e: jspool at uie.com p: +1 978 327 5561 http://uie.com Blog: http://uie.com/brainsparks Twitter: @jmspool UIE Roadshow: Seattle, Denver, DC in June: http://is.gd/gxwe ________________________________________________________________ Reply to this thread at ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=42315 ________________________________________________________________ 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
