[IxDA Discuss] [PLUG] Workshop: Getting Started With Personas

[Robert Barlow-Busch]

Hi folks,

On June 8 in Durham, North Carolina, we're running a full-day  
workshop for people who are considering whether to introduce personas  
into their design practice. Given the lively debate that personas  
sometimes spark on this list, I figured some of you might be interested.

The workshop gives you hands-on experience in key steps of the  
process, even in that most mysterious of steps: how to identify  
personas from a mess of research findings. We'll share plenty of  
examples from our client work over the past 6 years, too, to  
illustrate the impact that personas can have on a product's  
requirements and on its design direction.

And there's a bonus. Woo-hoo! You'll receive a free copy of Pruitt  
and Adlin's book "The Persona Lifecycle", in celebration of its  
recent publication. We made several contributions to this book, so  
we're of course excited to see it available.

To learn more about or register for the workshop:

http://personas.mollyguard.com

To see some example personas that we'll revisit in the workshop:

http://www.quarry.com/integration/interaction_design/personas/examples/

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Robert Barlow-Busch
Practice Director, Interaction Design
Quarry Integrated Communications Inc.
rbarlowbusch at quarry.com
(519) 570-2020