Re: [IxDA Discuss] Help on User profiling and Persona

2008-12-09 Thread karl
I have a podcast which has Gayna Williams from Microsoft talking about the exact idea that Will has mentioned above; Personas rather than groups. If you go to the Stanford iTunes web site at; http://itunes.stanford.edu/ Once iTunes is open, search for the following; Innovation on Research Metho

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Help on User profiling and Persona

2008-12-09 Thread Jeff Parks
Bennett, Not sure if Derek Featherstone is on this mailing list, but if you're looking for the best (human) resource on all topics related to accessibility, check out http://furtherahead.com/profile/ or follow him on twitter @feather Cheers, Jeff Bennett Lauber wrote: Does anyone have any

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Help on User profiling and Persona

2008-12-08 Thread Bennett Lauber
Does anyone have any information on disabled user persona's I am quickly becoming the accessibility person here and would like to create some sample personas; If some are "Out there" it would help get me started. Thanks in advance! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Help on User profiling and Persona

2008-12-06 Thread Andreas Ringdal
Does your company/client/organization have any existing statistics that is relevant to your task? Get hold of as much relevant background information as possible. If this is a studen project, contact various printer manufacturers, explain your situation and ask if they have any statistics they are

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Help on User profiling and Persona

2008-12-06 Thread William Brall
If those are already your user types, and you know them well, you don't need another layer of work on top. However, I bet good money that those aren't your real users. Those sound more like vague categorizations without any real substance. What makes a working man use a printer differently than a

[IxDA Discuss] Help on User profiling and Persona

2008-12-06 Thread manjunath n
Hello members, I need to do User profiling and build personas based on Printing habits and the needs eg: printing photos, print travel tickets etc.. I am planning to categorize four levels of user profiles, that is Housewives, working men/women, students and retired men/women...I would like to kno