Some persona-related materials:
From the benry blog, a discussion of profiles and personas. Especially interesting is a list of persona-related resources at the end of the entry.
Chapter 7 of Christina Wodtke's Information Architecture: Blueprints for the Web has a lot of practical how-to advice about creating personas. Its also a great intro to IA book as well.
It's less about creating personas than it is about the effects of personas, but Usability News has a short item called "Personas used as Means of Motivating Design Teams." It also points out some of the risks in using this process.
Another weblog entry about personas, this time from Donna Maurer. She has a short list of resources, too.
From Cooper, an article about "Getting from Research to Personas: Harnessing the Power of Data." Cooper also has a short section with Persona-related articles.
For those that need more conflict in their lives, a should do the trick. Sinha argues for using more quantitative methods in creating personas. Alan Cooper jumps in to argue against this. Sparks fly. Enjoy!
Posted by Karl
January 18, 2003 03:47 PM