It worries me a little to hear you say "general" personas I have to say. So much of the flack they get now already is around them being to general to be a useful tool. And if they are over generalized to a point of having no clear focus or goals the user is accomplishing I am not sure you would be able to easily find those new opportunities you are looking to discover. While I totally agree that using them as a tool to uncover new directions is a sometimes untapped area you might look at new ways of using them instead of changing the content.
My own personal recent thoughts around personas has been about how to make them more 3D and empathetic experiences for designers. One idea I have been toying with is working more with doing dramaturgical readings (basically like cold reading a play script) and therefore trying to embody the "character" more so as to get a more intuitive feel for their intents and goals and letting new opportunity ideas arise from that improvisation. Seeing how this can lead to natural but spontanious generation of a scene/scenario that will work for the user in ways we not have brainstormed otherwise. Traci Lepore Graphic Designer [email protected] 617-821-2156 ________________________________________________________________ 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
