[IxDA Discuss] Personas or some other technique?

[Tom Dell'Aringa]

on 5/10/07, Chaunsee at aol.com <Chaunsee at aol.com> wrote:
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>  In a message dated 5/10/2007 1:29:10 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> vijay.discussion at gmail.com writes:
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> Answering your main question about whether you should use a persona - a
> big
> YES. Personally, I would always use a persona - even if the research data
> is
> as limited as you have.
>
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> Has your organization used personas before?  If not, what is your plan for
> implementing personas and getting the product design team to apply them to
> various design and evaluation activities.  The Personas book by Pruitt and
> Adlin (The Persona Lifecycle: Keeping People in Mind Throughout Product
> Design) discusses the groundwork needed for teams to accept and apply
> personas. Personas generally require some education and public relations for
> them to be successful.
>
>
Good question - and the answer is no, they have not. The company is also not
what you would call "up to speed" on UX design. They are pretty much old
school people trying to move in the right direction. I have Cooper's book
which I have been using for my information (Ess. of ID 2). If I provide the
information/tools, they will do their best to use it - but I understand the
point that they may not really be equipped to do so. What would you suggest
I do along those lines? I cannot go there and provide training, and much of
this work may end up being remote freelance work.

Tom