I just wanted to comment on this: Andrei wrote: My experience is that 9 out of 10 times, people make personas improperly, and worse, use them to make or justify whatever design decision suits their fancy that day. But nearly every single person I've seen use them thinks they are doing it right. ***
The way I see it, Personas make for a good guide to ask the right questions whenever a new project comes up. For us, it will be extremely useful for our development teams merely because they have no time to go out on site to really know what's out there. As for the process of developing Personas itself, we've tried a few methods and we're currently refining them all the time. We also want to make sure everything is based on fact. And we also know Personas is a big piece of the pie that will help us in the near future more than harm us. It's just not the end-all to solve the big problem. It's among the various UX techniques to data gathering. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=42315 ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
