Re: [IxDA Discuss] Need of persona for small set of user group

2009-05-21 Thread Will Gaus
Kishor - I think it comes down to the question, 'Who are these personas for?' If you will be the only one who will be looking at them I say 'skip it.' However, if there is a development team involved, or other stakeholders who could benefit from having them at hand it might make sense to build

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Need of persona for small set of user group

2009-05-21 Thread Dana Chisnell
You have living personas! Spend your time with them rather than developing write-ups representing them. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=42186 __

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Need of persona for small set of user group

2009-05-20 Thread Elizabeth Bacon
Hi Kishor, You may well be in one of the rare situations where personas would not add especial value. They might instead add overhead to a collaborative, user-centered process where you can frequently interact with your actual users. Slide 59 of the presentation I authored with Steve Calde, "De

[IxDA Discuss] Need of persona for small set of user group

2009-05-20 Thread Kishor Sonawane
Hi everyone, Persona represents a user group, helps to understand who the users are, their behavior, etc. No my question here is if I’ve a large set of audience or target user group then making a persona make sense to me, But what if I’ve very limited users say 8-10 and I’ve access to users all