On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 5:00 PM, erpdesigner <erpdesig...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Just to clarify, this is more of a concept piece, not an actual product. We > are trying to roadmap features and integration points for the next 18 > months. > > Ah, that was not totally clear when I responded to your original post. This makes me feel a lot better. : ) Still though, I'm unconvinced of the value of brainstorming personas even early on in the process. If you're working with a group of other UX designers, you should all be empathic enough to be able to put yourselves in the shoes of people who might need to use the system you'd be working on. I'm sure you have at least some idea who they could be... bankers? students? tv fans? etc. In the situation you described, the only thing I'd bother brainstorming at the beginning is the nouns and the verbs... what sort of stuff will people be working with? what sort of things will they need to do with it. Use that empathy to winnow out the obviously useless stuff & then jump into paper prototyping. Walking thru super lo-fi prototypes like that with other UX designers pretending to be the audience will quickly show you whether you've missed something essential & whether what you do have is useful. That's been my experience anyway. F. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Fred Beecher Sr. User Experience Consultant Evantage Consulting O: 612.230.3838 // M: 612.810.6745 IM: fbeec...@gmail.com (google/msn) // fredevc (aim/yahoo) T: http://twitter.com/fred_beecher ________________________________________________________________ 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
