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Andrea Resmini

    using personas
                      
in web projects,
  an early view on users
  is typically provided via
 simple demographic data


ANDREA RESMINI ­ USING PERSONAS   NOV 26 2009
(WHITNEY QUESENBERY, PERSONAS AND STORYTELLING)




      aged 30-45
      well educated
      45% married with children
      use the web 3-5 times/week
      65% use search engines



ANDREA RESMINI ­ USING PERSONAS                                  NOV 26 2009
sure there's a lot of
            information there,
           but what about this:


ANDREA RESMINI ­ USING PERSONAS    NOV 26 2009
“
     Maria is 37 years old.
     She's married to Jonas and has
     two children, Peter and Anna.
     She has a degree from the local
     university and runs the
     swimming club web site.
     Besides that, she uses the web
     mostly to manage her business.

ANDREA RESMINI ­ USING PERSONAS   NOV 26 2009
such a depiction helps
     the much fabled target
       audience become
    tangible and compelling


ANDREA RESMINI ­ USING PERSONAS   NOV 26 2009
it helps bring users
 into the design team and
 make them as real as the
 technical details and the
       design concepts

ANDREA RESMINI ­ USING PERSONAS   NOV 26 2009
this description
            is the base starting
             point of a persona


ANDREA RESMINI ­ USING PERSONAS    NOV 26 2009
(ANN MORRIS, THEPASSIONOFTHEPROGRAMMER.COM)




ANDREA RESMINI ­ USING PERSONAS                             NOV 26 2009
what a persona is



ANDREA RESMINI ­ USING PERSONAS   NOV 26 2009
a persona is
      a fictional character
     representing different
        user types within
    a targeted demographic


ANDREA RESMINI ­ USING PERSONAS   NOV 26 2009
a persona is
         01.        a narrative
         02.        describing a usage pattern
         03.        embodied in a fictional user
         04.        by means of text and images
         05.        and based on project data




ANDREA RESMINI ­ USING PERSONAS              NOV 26 2009
a persona is
        a tool in UCD projects



ANDREA RESMINI ­ USING PERSONAS   NOV 26 2009
a persona is
    communicated through
    any kind of deliverables



ANDREA RESMINI ­ USING PERSONAS   NOV 26 2009
(MEET DANIELE, A FOOTBALL FAN. HE'S A PERSONA)




ANDREA RESMINI ­ USING PERSONAS                                 NOV 26 2009
(MEET THESE CHARACTERS FROM A COMIC STRIP, THEY ARE PERSONAS TOO)




ANDREA RESMINI ­ USING PERSONAS                                                   NOV 26 2009
what a persona is not



ANDREA RESMINI ­ USING PERSONAS   NOV 26 2009
a persona is not a job role




ANDREA RESMINI ­ USING PERSONAS            NOV 26 2009
a persona is not an IT-related role




ANDREA RESMINI ­ USING PERSONAS   NOV 26 2009
a persona is not someone you know




ANDREA RESMINI ­ USING PERSONAS   NOV 26 2009
why use personas?



ANDREA RESMINI ­ USING PERSONAS   NOV 26 2009
A    user model



ANDREA RESMINI ­ USING PERSONAS        NOV 26 2009
personas help communicate
                inside the team
        who are building your web site for




ANDREA RESMINI ­ USING PERSONAS         NOV 26 2009
B
     pattern identification



ANDREA RESMINI ­ USING PERSONAS   NOV 26 2009
although the general public
 is a vast diverse body of people,
   users display very few distinct
patterns of behavior on the website.



ANDREA RESMINI ­ USING PERSONAS   NOV 26 2009
Cdata reduction



ANDREA RESMINI ­ USING PERSONAS     NOV 26 2009
all data illustrating
              user behavior is useful,
             everything else much less




ANDREA RESMINI ­ USING PERSONAS          NOV 26 2009
how do you create
             personas?


ANDREA RESMINI ­ USING PERSONAS   NOV 26 2009
1
          start with research



ANDREA RESMINI ­ USING PERSONAS   NOV 26 2009
web traffic data




ANDREA RESMINI ­ USING PERSONAS               NOV 26 2009
user tests




ANDREA RESMINI ­ USING PERSONAS                NOV 26 2009
user observation
                  in work environments




ANDREA RESMINI ­ USING PERSONAS          NOV 26 2009
2
    gather 2dn hand data



ANDREA RESMINI ­ USING PERSONAS   NOV 26 2009
information provided
                  by help / support staff




ANDREA RESMINI ­ USING PERSONAS             NOV 26 2009
surveys or marketing data
                  from sales staff




ANDREA RESMINI ­ USING PERSONAS          NOV 26 2009
3
             design iteratively



ANDREA RESMINI ­ USING PERSONAS   NOV 26 2009
personas are tightly coupled
           with use scenarios, so ...




ANDREA RESMINI ­ USING PERSONAS     NOV 26 2009
… start telling stories about them




ANDREA RESMINI ­ USING PERSONAS   NOV 26 2009
stories is how personas go
               from being pictures
             to being action figures



ANDREA RESMINI ­ USING PERSONAS         NOV 26 2009
you suffer writer's block?




ANDREA RESMINI ­ USING PERSONAS   NOV 26 2009
three simple steps
         to help you get going



ANDREA RESMINI ­ USING PERSONAS   NOV 26 2009
1
                    establish a goal
                     and a context



ANDREA RESMINI ­ USING PERSONAS        NOV 26 2009
why is the persona
               using the product now
                    what will make
             this interaction successful



ANDREA RESMINI ­ USING PERSONAS            NOV 26 2009
2
    describe the interaction



ANDREA RESMINI ­ USING PERSONAS   NOV 26 2009
stay at a high level
           avoid detailed descriptions
                 of the interface




ANDREA RESMINI ­ USING PERSONAS          NOV 26 2009
3
            end with the results



ANDREA RESMINI ­ USING PERSONAS    NOV 26 2009
what happens as a result
                 of this interaction
              what made it successful




ANDREA RESMINI ­ USING PERSONAS          NOV 26 2009
4
           add plenty of details



ANDREA RESMINI ­ USING PERSONAS   NOV 26 2009
names, pictures, biographies, their
      pets and their hobbies




ANDREA RESMINI ­ USING PERSONAS   NOV 26 2009
how is a persona used?



ANDREA RESMINI ­ USING PERSONAS   NOV 26 2009
to surrogate user testing



ANDREA RESMINI ­ USING PERSONAS   NOV 26 2009
to help advocate
                   for your users



ANDREA RESMINI ­ USING PERSONAS     NOV 26 2009
to communicate
                     user needs



ANDREA RESMINI ­ USING PERSONAS    NOV 26 2009
to evaluate new features



ANDREA RESMINI ­ USING PERSONAS   NOV 26 2009
to help make
                  design decisions



ANDREA RESMINI ­ USING PERSONAS      NOV 26 2009
to help weigh
              business decisions



ANDREA RESMINI ­ USING PERSONAS    NOV 26 2009
for task analysis and
                use cases



ANDREA RESMINI ­ USING PERSONAS   NOV 26 2009
issues with personas



ANDREA RESMINI ­ USING PERSONAS   NOV 26 2009
thank you!
                           Andrea Resmini
                     <andrea.resmini@gmail.com>




ANDREA RESMINI ­ USING PERSONAS                   NOV 26 2009

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