Monday, March 2, 2009

Persona Research/Persona


This week I researched user personas on a couple sites thatgave out some really great steps on how to develop personas. One site broke down user personas into ten steps and can be seen in the diagram below.


Here are ten steps:
step:1 Finding the User
step:2 Building a Hypothesis
step:3 Verification
step:4 Find Patterns
step:5 Constructing Personas
-Body
-Psyche
-Background
-Emotions and Attitudes
-Personal Traits
step:6 Defining Situations
step:7 Validation and Buy In
step:8 Dissemination of Knowledge
step:9 Creating Scenarios
step: 10 Ongoing Development

visit the sites:

Work Cited for this link:
Dr.Lene Nielson. "Ten Steps to User Persona." HCI Vistas. 2007. 2 Mar. 2009 .

Head, Allison. "Personas: Setting the Stage for Building Usable Information Sites."2003. Information Today. 2 Mar. 2009

User Persona:


  • Gender: Male
  • Age:23
  • Is involved in the video/film industry, is web savvy, has knowledge of video production and web.
  • Activities:
    • Active Vimeo viewer
    • Avid movie and video production viewer
    • Enjoys flash websites
    • Enjoys great production skills
    • Likes to edit video or film
    • Reads the magazine Filmmakers
    • Uses Final Cut Pro

Site Requirements

Technologies Used:

  • Adobe Flex Builder
  • Adobe Flash and Photoshop CS4
  • Actionscript 3.0, XML
  • CSS,HTML

Technical Needs and Requirements:

  • Research sites that have similar functionality
  • Research Papervision for Navigation
  • Research AS3 Programming
  • Video Compression Bit Rate+Download time

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