On 12 Nov 2008, at 14:25, Allan Day wrote:
I'm not familiar with the development of personas... are they supposed
to be representative of some kind of section of users?
Personas are archetypes that don't necessarily map directly on to any
one 'real' user. But the union of the personas you use on any one
project should, hopefully, be representative of that project's target
audience.
I'd recommend reading the blog entries at cooper.com about persona
development:
<http://www.cooper.com/journal/personas/>
And here are a couple of persona-related podcasts I've listened to
recently, that were quite informative:
<http://www.uxpod.com/index.php?post_id=160220>
<http://www.uie.com/brainsparks/2007/11/21/usability-tools-podcast-robust-personas/
>
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