[IxDA Discuss] A question about Personas

[Robin Cottiss]

There are some great points here and, yes please, please, do keep this
professional and respectful of differing points of view. A subject
that promotes passionate debate is usually an important subject and
worth discussing.

I will post more replies to individual comments later but I have a
technical question for Todd and a clarification about my repository
question.

Todd, how do you post your replies so you get the nice in-line
quotes? Is this just how you are formatting in your email client?
Your method is very readable.

Regarding repositories - I was not suggesting creating a repository
for a single project but I was wondering about the value of a
community repository that would contain many personas. I imagined a
designer on a new project being able to search the repository for
representative personas as a starting point. Alternatively the
repository would a learning resource. This perhaps make more sense
from the comments here about personas being developed from research
and real users. 

My interest in a repository is related to newness to this field. When
I join a new community and I am learning about new stuff with the help
of the community I look to see how I can give back to the community as
well. My ideal approach is to learn by doing something that might be
of value to the community as well as myself.

Robin


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