Re: Personas

["Santiago Roza" <santiago roza thymbra com>]

On 7/16/06, Glynn Foster <Glynn Foster sun com> wrote:


> I think having a name and a face is amazingly useful - helps people to
> visualize the types of people they are and what their lives might
> involve.

yeah we all agree on that.  i'm just saying it doesn't make much sense
to start on the warm fuzzy part, until we have useful user profiles.

that's why i started by defining their user/marketing profile first,
instead of the day they prefer to do their shopping.  we can always
add that later.


> I didn't know about the other Personas wiki page [if it even
> existed then], otherwise I would have taken those profiles, added some
> pictures and names.

neither did i :), it used to be just a posting to this mailing list,
until claus kindly uploaded it.  but imho we still have a lot of
[profiling / segmentation  / etc] work to do, before we can start with
the faces and nicknames.

anyway, my problem with the ones you suggested is not that you didn't
use mines (who cares?), but the fact that imho they're 70% similar and
not very solid from a marketing point of view.


--
Santiago Roza
Proyecto Tiny ERP Argentina
Departamento I+D - Thymbra
santiago roza thymbra com



On 7/16/06, Glynn Foster <Glynn Foster sun com> wrote:
> Hey,
>
> Santiago Roza wrote:
> > On 7/14/06, Glynn Foster <Glynn Foster sun com> wrote:
> >
> >> I even started on some profiles, with a more 'human' aspect [1] -
> >> http://live.gnome.org/JoshWilliams
> >> http://live.gnome.org/HarrisonJacobs
> >
> >
> > and what's the difference between these two and the ones we had
> > before, other than having a random "human" name and a face (both
> > american btw), a similar job, a similar age, and very similar needs?
> > :)
>
> I think having a name and a face is amazingly useful - helps people to
> visualize the types of people they are and what their lives might
> involve. I didn't know about the other Personas wiki page [if it even
> existed then], otherwise I would have taken those profiles, added some
> pictures and names.
>
>
> Glynn