On 31.10.2012 22:03, Jeremy Perry wrote:
Hi gang,
This thread (and the Winged Monkey thread) has been a great start. As the
resident UX guy, I've taken the first step at pushing the conversation forward
by repackaging the personas that Hugh sent out and added it to the Aeolus wiki.
You can find it here:
https://redmine.aeolusproject.org/redmine/projects/aeolus/wiki/Personas
Along with some minor cleanup of the existing doc, I've added an introduction
inspired by conversation in this thread, and taken a first stab at naming the
personas. Names like Marty the Infrastructure Manager can help add empathy to
our decison making. in the future when we discuss an aspect of the experience,
it may be be helpful to think about whether Marty would want this vs that. By
all means, if you have better names than these feel free to make changes, I am
positive you all can do better than my feeble first attempt.
Next steps
Input and Validation
It's in the wiki now, so we can have at it. I know that the source work from
Spring 2011 was vetted to some degree already with PM. I'll reach out once
again to see if there is any further input they can provide. I'd also like to
know if any of you have suggestions for any customer-facing folks that would be
good to sync with - please let me know.
Format
There's no set format for personas, we can make it what we need it to be. I maintained
what was in the document Hugh sent, except the communication diagram. We can add to,
change and delete any of this as we see fit. I'm not positive that some of the facets in
the source doc are that useful, and I have omitted the communication chart for now as it
was difficult to translate into text. Also, one thing I think I think we should consider
adding is a usage scenario, like "a day in the life" which describes typical
use and intent in a few sentences. I didn't take a stab at this yet though.
- Jeremy
Cool :) I think this is a great start that will hopefully lead to having very
useful personas defined.
Thank you.
J.
