2. in web projects,
an early view on users
is typically provided via
simple demographic data
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3. (WHITNEY QUESENBERY, PERSONAS AND STORYTELLING)
aged 30-45
well educated
45% married with children
use the web 3-5 times/week
65% use search engines
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4. sure there's a lot of
information there,
but what about this:
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5. “
Maria is 37 years old.
She's married to Jonas and has
two children, Peter and Anna.
She has a degree from the local
university and runs the
swimming club web site.
Besides that, she uses the web
mostly to manage her business.
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6. such a depiction helps
the much fabled target
audience become
tangible and compelling
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7. it helps bring users
into the design team and
make them as real as the
technical details and the
design concepts
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8. this description
is the base starting
point of a persona
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10. what a persona is
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11. a persona is
a fictional character
representing different
user types within
a targeted demographic
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12. a persona is
01. a narrative
02. describing a usage pattern
03. embodied in a fictional user
04. by means of text and images
05. and based on project data
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13. a persona is
a tool in UCD projects
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14. a persona is
communicated through
any kind of deliverables
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22. A user model
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23. personas help communicate
inside the team
who are building your web site for
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24. B
pattern identification
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25. although the general public
is a vast diverse body of people,
users display very few distinct
patterns of behavior on the website.
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