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Other Persona Resources

Added by Daphne Ogle, last edited by Allison Bloodworth on Jun 07, 2009 (view change)

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Online Resources

"Develop Personas" at Usability.gov
"An introduction to personas and how to create them" by Tina Calabria
"The origin of Personas" by Alan Cooper
"Perfecting your Personas" by Kim Goodwin
"Getting from Research to Personas: Harnessing the Power of Data" by Kim Goodwin
"Crappy Personas vs. Robust Personas" by Jared Spool
"Personas vs. User Descriptions; Apples vs. Tomatoes" by Jared Spool
"The User is Always Right: Making Personas work for your site" by Steve Mulder
"Making Personas Work for Your Web Site: An Interview with Steve Mulder" by Jared Spool
"Goal-Directed Design: An Interview with Kim Goodwin" by Christine Perfetti or "SpoolCast: An Interview with Cooper's Kim Goodwin" with Christine Perfetti
"Death To Personas! Long Live Personas!" by Liz Bacon - Good presentation on how to successfully use personas.
"data driven design research personas" - Great, visual intro presentation on personas, touching on many of the points discussed above.
http://www.personacreation.com/

Books

The Inmates are Running the Asylum, Alan Cooper - this is the first time anyone used the term persona. It's a ground breaking book that anyone interested in interaction design or software development for that matter, would benefit from reading.
About Face 3.0 the Essentials of Interaction Design, by Alan Cooper, Robert Reimann, David Cronin - everything interaction design framed in Cooper's Goal Directed Design methodology
The Persona Lifecycle, Keeping People in Mind Throughout Product Design, John Pruitt & Tamara Adlin

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