> > Of course there's no point in doing it if the developers aren't interested > > in using the personas to help guide the direction of development, but I > > wanted to hear some thoughts from this mailing list first. > > I'd say that we should create some personas, even if developers don't > show interest in them. Personas provide a strong narrative focus, and > developers are going to argue about how "aunt Millie" or "grandma" are > going to use a particular interface element.
I agree. Even if developers don't show much interest in them to begin with, they may very well start using them if we put them out there. > It would be better to have those target users better defined so that > you can refer to a particular and consistent set of assumptions, > instead of changing the perceived user abilities during the discussion > to match the preferred I'm not familiar with the development of personas... are they supposed to be representative of some kind of section of users? The wiki page [1] mentions the mapping of clusters - is that a statistical analysis, or is the representative logic more theoretical (something like an ideal type [2])? Allan [1] http://live.gnome.org/UsabilityProject/Whiteboard/Personas [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ideal_type _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list Usability@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
