Persona provides an illustration of a virtual user. There are more
information that you can extract from a persona such as user's profile,
goal, task to be completed, how he/she use the application tool, their daily
life, behavior, common practice, user expectation, etc. All these
information are
If you'd stick to Cooper's User Personas
(http://www.cooper.com/insights/journal_of_design/articles/the_origin_of_personas_1.html),
they would be completely different things:
-I would say Profile describes overall characteristics of the
target audience
On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 6:47 AM, oliver green [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi All,
Is there a difference between the term profile and persona?
It depends on what You mean by profile.
1. Personas are based on research and synthesized from data - not
creative fiction
2. Personas are about goals,
Profiles are *types* of users. Personas have real names (of obviously
ficticious users) :-)
A lot of overlap in content especially at a high level, but a different
approach and a different use.
Personas are generally open to deeper exploration of habits and small
details that might not seem
Is there a difference between the term profile and persona?
Yes, about two dozen dead kittens.
--
Kontra
http://counternotions.com
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Hi,
I don't like unsophisticated at all, sounds negative to the
person. Maybe users don't have experience using a particular
application but that does not mean that they are unsophisticated.
Novice and unexperienced sounds much better to me...
Alex
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It might not be the kind of community you're after but many file
sharing sites such as private bittorrent trackers enforce sharing
ratios where you can only download if you also upload.
Cheers, Tamlyn.
Welcome to the Interaction
Dave is exactly right:
There are 2 roles that play into Blend: Designer Integrator
I have been working in Blend for the last 6 months or so and every
project we do gets a WPF developer to handle the integration and code
behind work for the UI/UX.
There is also a lot of attention that needs to
Hi Andrew, sorry about that headache...hope when you read this you're
feeling better.
I was seeking information from list members as to how implementation of Web
2 has impacted the following formalized processes
a) Systems Development Life Cycle
b) Design Documentation Process
b) Standards
In my experience profiles usually refer to marketing profiles of users - based
on information like demographics.
Personas are user archetypes based on a synthesis of goals, behaviours and
motivations. Personas may include personal details such as names, photographs
and demographics, but they
I might have some down time tomorrow afternoon between meetings. Is
there some fabulous IxD-related exhibit or anything I ought to check
out while I'm in NY? Looks like I just missed a glass-making demo at
Cooper-Hewitt. :-(
Cheers,
-- Kim
Here's how we do it:
Role:
A group or category of users (s.a. Student, Faculty or Librarian) who
share a defined set of needs and perform a common set of tasks. Role is
identified at Log-In (if appropriate) and defines Permissioning to perform
tasks.
Profile:
If a person has a Log-in ID
Hi folks,
We're trying to improve the implementation of 3D secure (Verified by
Visa) for a client's site. (3D secure is the additional step during an
online purchase when you're brought to your credit card company's
site to enter an additional password.) Abandonment rates at this stage
Personally I am against having increase font size on a website I
design. In this day and age, I would that most people who need to
increase their font sizes in their web browser already know how to do
it. Even more, they probably have increased their font size long
before they got to your web
I am relatively new to this discussion list and appreciate thoughts,
references etc about ways users might create and share web pages using 2.0
apps. Thinking the best approach is to look at the various of ways users are
doing it today. Is there a different approach you recommend taking?
And. .
On 6/3/08, Oleg Krupnov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I called the guy's attention to this point, but he said that there's never
anything so greatly innovative that is capable of making the entire hi-fi
prototype invalid, and the minor corrections can be made directly in the
hi-fi prototype. They
Verified by Visa (and other similar schemes) are in no way limited to
opening a new browser window. Actually I've never seen this in any
website that I visited.
The official Visa website for merchants has got lots of information
about the scheme and the best practice that they advocate is
On Jun 4, 2008, at 5:59 AM, G.Jason Head wrote:
In this day and age, I would that most people who need to
increase their font sizes in their web browser already know how to do
it. Even more, they probably have increased their font size long
before they got to your web site anyway.
Unlikely.
Agreed. Explicit font-size adjustment on screen is best. I had to set it
manually for my parents, and while the percentage of people over 65 becoming
more and more savvy is increasing at an amazing rate - hidden functions like
adjusting text size is something that escapes them (that is - the
Midtown, mostly. I'm staying on east 52nd.
On Jun 4, 2008, at 9:04 AM, Four Hewes, Caspian Design wrote:
Kim,
What part of town will you be able to reach in your free time?
Four
At 8:47 AM -0400 6/4/08, Kim Bieler wrote:
I might have some down time tomorrow afternoon between meetings. Is
I know many think it's better to force people to use the increase font
size feature in their browser, however, I know many don't know how to
do so and are afraid to try. Why not provide a button to increase text
size and a link beside it to a page describing how to use the browser
method?
- Original Message
From: G.Jason Head [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Personally I am against having increase font size on a website I
design. In this day and age, I would that most people who need to
increase their font sizes in their web browser already know how to do
it Even more, they
I kind of agree.
There are (potential) problems to this approach though.
1.) Users may find your font-size changing widget no clearer or easier to use
than the browser option (think of the standard + and - icons / links on many
sites).
2.) If users never learn the browser option, and you
For something a little out there, more ultra modern/ (post modern, who
knows), Japanese art, which incorporates old/new, commerce and art,
structure, experience, painting, video, sculpture and general wierdness - it
would be hard to beat the Murakami exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum, see:
Why is everyone intent on sending me to Brooklyn? Is Manhattan no
longer cool enough?
On Jun 4, 2008, at 12:01 PM, Rich Rogan wrote:
For something a little out there, more ultra modern/ (post modern, who
knows), Japanese art, which incorporates old/new, commerce and art,
structure,
Got to break it to you... Brooklyn is definitely where it's at in NYC :)
On 6/4/08, Kim Bieler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Why is everyone intent on sending me to Brooklyn? Is Manhattan no longer
cool enough?
--
Joseph Rich Rogan
President UX/UI Inc.
http://www.jrrogan.com
A user profile can a description of a particular user of a product or
a summary of the characteristics of particular groups of users from
surveys, interviews, or some combination of user research methods. As
John noted below: User profile sometimes means the collection of
preferences associated
Rich is right. Manhattan is so 1990's. Brooklyn is the future. as the
sign says when you enter on the Brooklyn Queens Expressway, Believe
the hype!
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Yes, thats what folks who live in Brooklyn say :p
The MoMA store is always nifty. Also check out the other store across the
street.
Not IxD, but there is a studio on 46th Lexington that often has bizarre
(fun) exhibitions
-Vishal
On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 1:17 PM, Rich Rogan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Modern web marketing and design strategies suggest that online products
should be highly responsive to customer feedback. Sites like
GetSatisfaction.com further escalate and highlight conversations about
products, encouraging companies to actively participate in them. Ultimately,
the point is to
I've worked on a white-labeled product for a few years now, and here's what
we do:
- Perform user testing on your product AT the customer site - recruit
consumers who use Company X and test Company X's product (be honest that you
are not testing on behalf of Company X, maybe say you
Interesting question. First, I'm not familiar with the term 'white
label', an alternative seems to be ODM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Original_Design_Manufacturer
To your question, it wasnt clear whether you're hoping to garner
feedback or to simply promote.
Specifically on feedback...
It
Hello IxDAers!
My team has received a request from the mechincal engineering team to help
them understand how the human eye perceives relative brightness of light.
Specifically, how sensitive is the human eye to changes in brightness?
An initial literature search on ACM Google did not yield
Elise,
How fast will the changes occur? Inattentional Blindness and/or Change-
Blindness (as well as Change-Blindness-Blindness*) may come into play.
In short, people will be unable to detect gradual changes in
brightness. Tons of research out there...
See Gradual Changes to Scenes for
Join us for drinks, conversation, networking, and geeking out with
fellow information architects, librarians, usability experts, user
experience designers, and other like-minded user-centered
professionals and students. It's open to anyone, so bring a friend --
especially those in other local
I've have a love/hate relationship with text-resize widgets. On the one
hand - the widget plays a role in increasing the accessibility of
content - something I think is very important.
On the other hand, far too many people began to use them because its a
cool Cool CSS trick or worse, if they
Thought these posts might be of interest too, while we discuss this topic.
http://www.456bereastreet.com/archive/200709/scrap_text_resize_widgets_and_teach_people_how_to_resize_text/
http://accessify.com/news/2007/09/teach-a-man-to-fish-or-how-to-resize-text/
-adam connor
Thanks everyone!
I think I am going to suggest that my director of product describe
our users in terms of different levels of literacy as well as perhaps
create a few cool descriptions like Catriona mentioned to help us talk
about them in short hand.
I also agree that I am need to build empathy
Thumbplay Inc., the leading consumer brand in wireless entertainment,
has an immediate opening for an Information Architect to join a growing
group of user experience professionals on the product development team.
The ideal candidate will demonstrate a depth of experience in
information
not sure if this is along your lines, but i'm looking for examples of
product configurators. i have sampled nike, converse (chuck taylor),
mini cooper, blue nile, and timberland and would love to see more.
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My best guess is to let them observe representative users use their
product. Stereotyping becomes a lot harder when you are thinking about
the real people you watched.
We've made watching usability test sessions a fun company event
(separate observation room through Morae)...we send out invites
From: Bob Sampson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
:I think a major contributor to usability in fields like that are
: watermarks in the textboxes to make them stand out more. Kind of like
: the Search Archives... searchbox on this ixda site in the
: rightnav. I think nowadays you can even dump the labels and
To be honest, in nearly two-years of designing and developing Web
sites, I've never thought of using nor been requested to use a
text-resizer widget. I'm unsure if that is a good thing or not, but
personally, I find it astonishing, and perhaps telling, that it has
never come to mind, especially as
Dan,
Modern web marketing also suggests that 'the online product' also includes
the provision of a customer engagement model, so my response would be: as
part of your 'white label offering' you include tools via which your client
organization can engage with customers; and then as part of your
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