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

[Kirk Bridger <kbridger shaw ca>]

Hey everyone,

I've been mucking around with a page on personas after stormy's message 
(http://live.gnome.org/UsabilityProject/Whiteboard/Personas) and it 
brought up two good points.  Yes I type notes to myself and come across 
new thoughts that way, but I digress.

1 - If we want to look at using personas, we really should focus on 
specific features we're looking at.

2 - This discussion about a new shell is a specific feature.

The discussion seems like it is slightly unfocused, and I'd like to hear 
what people think of creating a few personas for this new shell.  They 
would help the developers focus on a feature set and specific usage and 
scenarios.  Of course there's no point in doing it if the developers 
aren't interested in using the personas to help guide the direction of 
development, but I wanted to hear some thoughts from this mailing list 
first.

That page I was mucking around on includes some steps I pulled from a 
seminar on creating personas in 30 days.

Thoughts?


Kirk