Where I was heading was the replacement of 'fictitious' with 'representative' or some other less perjorative term to describe personas.
Don't get me wrong: I'm not a persona fan-boy. But the underlying techniques - quantitative & qualitative - for deriving these audience segmentations (not just personas) is sound and warrants greater (respect isn't quite the right word) consideration. Steve 2009/5/31 Jared Spool <[email protected]> > > On May 30, 2009, at 5:18 PM, Robert Hoekman Jr wrote: > > A map of J.R.R. Tolkien's Shire is fictitious. >> >> A map of Manhattan is not. >> > > A map of Manhattan is documentation of a real place. Personas are not > documentation of real people — they're hybrid, man-made, archetypal, > representative descriptions that arebased on real people. > > > Uh-huh. > > Except maps aren't true documentation of real places, since much of the > detail of the real places are left out of the maps. A map of Manhattan may > not show any of the buildings or contours of the city and even may leave out > important streets. > > The cartographer abstracts the important content and intentionally leaves > out the rest. That's the secret behind good map design. > > And this is just a game of semantics. > > Where are we going with this? > > Jared > > -- Steve 'Doc' Baty | Principal | Meld Consulting | P: +61 417 061 292 | E: [email protected] | Twitter: docbaty | Skype: steve_baty | LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/stevebaty Director, IxDA - ixda.org Editor: Johnny Holland - johnnyholland.org Contributor: UXMatters - www.uxmatters.com UX Australia: 26-28 August, http://uxaustralia.com.au UX Book Club: http://uxbookclub.org/ - Read, discuss, connect. Blog: http://meld.com.au/blog ________________________________________________________________ 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
