Comments on: John Hughes, WALL-E, and writing for a real person http://www.wordsaredelicious.com/2009/08/john-hughes-wall-e-and-writing-for-a-real-person/ A blog about words, language, and content strategy Sun, 25 Jul 2010 04:17:57 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: dbrondeau http://www.wordsaredelicious.com/2009/08/john-hughes-wall-e-and-writing-for-a-real-person/comment-page-1/#comment-1294 dbrondeau Tue, 01 Dec 2009 23:55:51 +0000 http://www.wordsaredelicious.com/?p=163#comment-1294 Or even better yet, do some field interviews and talk to lots of real people—then use that rich data to create your personas. You may even find that after you do field interviews, the design team won't need personas. Here's an article that describes this a little more- http://incontextdesign.com/articles/personas-and-contextual-design/ -dave Or even better yet, do some field interviews and talk to lots of real people—then use that rich data to create your personas. You may even find that after you do field interviews, the design team won’t need personas. Here’s an article that describes this a little more-
http://incontextdesign.com/articles/personas-and-contextual-design/

-dave

]]> By: Heavywinter http://www.wordsaredelicious.com/2009/08/john-hughes-wall-e-and-writing-for-a-real-person/comment-page-1/#comment-1293 Heavywinter Tue, 01 Dec 2009 22:11:33 +0000 http://www.wordsaredelicious.com/?p=163#comment-1293 Absolutely! I fully believe in the premise of personas, but why bother when you can get real, honest to goodness, genuine, living & breathing, physically existing human beings? Use a persona as a stopgap measure, ok, but not as a preferred tool. And just think, real people offer you the chance to have an exchange of ideas, to gain insightful bits of information and grant an ability to learn. Absolutely! I fully believe in the premise of personas, but why bother when you can get real, honest to goodness, genuine, living & breathing, physically existing human beings? Use a persona as a stopgap measure, ok, but not as a preferred tool. And just think, real people offer you the chance to have an exchange of ideas, to gain insightful bits of information and grant an ability to learn.

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