Jan, I'd be careful about organizing a workshop where your clients/client reps assist in creating personas.
if such a workshop is the first step in creating these personas (i.e. you haven't been able to perform any interviews, observations, etc.), you open yourself up to creating personas that aren't founded on any research and will be based on your client assumptions and prejudices. Obviously, you need to have client feedback to help guide what you're looking for and what they'll sign off on, but you could quickly see the workshop dive into a morass of people picking out a names for the persona's three cats and what color their Vespa is when such information isn't critical to what reflects real user behavior. So no, I don't have any ideas about how to run such a workshop, but I'd caution you to tread carefully if you do... Hope that helps-- Chris . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=46648 ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
