Re: [Usability] Gnome Shell update and personas - focus or distraction?

[Kirk Bridger <kbridger shaw ca>]

It sounds like there's at least some interest in putting together 
something like personas - what feature set do we want to focus on.  or 
put another way, what feature set seems to be the one the devs are 
really gunning for?

The Gnome Shell?

http://blog.fishsoup.net/2008/10/22/implementing-the-next-gnome-shell/

http://www.vuntz.net/journal/2008/10/22/494-desktop-shell-from-the-user-experience-hackfest-general-overview

Is this what we want to focus on?

If so, do we want to add a page somewhere on the wiki for a scratch pad, 
to start getting our thoughts down in terms of steps to do, info to 
gather, people to talk to and extract attributes from?

Or is there a better way to collaborate on these?

Kirk



Calum Benson wrote:
> On 12 Nov 2008, at 14:25, Allan Day wrote:
> > I'm not familiar with the development of personas... are they supposed
> > to be representative of some kind of section of users?
>
>
> Personas are archetypes that don't necessarily map directly on to any 
> one 'real' user.  But the union of the personas you use on any one 
> project should, hopefully, be representative of that project's target 
> audience.
>
> I'd recommend reading the blog entries at cooper.com about persona 
> development:
> <http://www.cooper.com/journal/personas/>
>
> And here are a couple of persona-related podcasts I've listened to 
> recently, that were quite informative:
> <http://www.uxpod.com/index.php?post_id=160220>
> <http://www.uie.com/brainsparks/2007/11/21/usability-tools-podcast-robust-personas/>