[IxDA Discuss] Community design?

[pauric]

I would go a step further than "Do this a few times, and you won't have to
work nearly as hard convincing them later on."  Get things right and you
wont have to work hard - period.

I'm in the Hoekman camp regarding persona's but they are very useful when
convincing people, to me they are a communication tool.  This leads on to
something that you should be doing as a designer but which can demonstrate
your capabilities and professionalism to the rest of the team - building
your design library, mine contains among other things;
work flow diagrams
scenarios
3 personas
a wireframe library
feature specification library
etc etc, I use these in design 'discussions' with engineers.

Being in a position to pepper an email with insightful snippets that back my
case has served me well.  Much like the difference between circumstantial
and forensic evidence in a court of law I guess.