James, I think that you are mis-characterizing personas. A persona is simply a model. It can be a good model or a bad model.
When you write: "None of 5 Personas represent any of the 32 real participants. We effectively thrown away all our data away." This is simply an example of a bad persona set. In a good persona set, no data is thrown away. Instead, all data is represented, but in a manner that organizes it in a useful way. JS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=35466 ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
