Discussion Archive: January 2005

Site personas and more

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Hi,

My team is working on a set of Personas for a certain Consumer Segment.
Our users will be a group of researchers/scientists.
The problem here is that there isn't any specific application/website that
the personas would be used for; and they should also be valid for the next
five years, if not more.

Is there anyway to figure out the granularity of data here?

the big persona

Ok,

Anyone have an idea on how to adress the creation of a
persona for a single special user?

I have an internal project where there is an amazing
and well known senior manager who needs to be part of
the persona process except that its too transparent.
You can read the persona and you know its her. There
is realy no hybrid I can build.

And she is a valid user of the system we are building
and also the one paying for the project.

Powerpoint vs. "regular" slides

I recall reading an article in which powerpoint was blamed for its
inefficient and ineffectual presentation of data. A comparison was
then made between a single slide and something like four powerpoint
slides that were needed to present the same data, losing the
obviousness of certain trends in the process.

I've just spent a good half an hour trying to find it with zero
success, so I'm hoping someone here knows what I'm talking about.

Creative Brief!

Hi there,

One of my acquaintances wants to get her website designed for her
small business. She wants to create a Creative Brief before she
approaches Designers for quote. She asked me if I can get any such
template of some sort. Is there anything that you can guide me?

Any pointer, document, book, paper, etc. will greatly help.

Thanks,

Prady