the users at the end of the mouse - using the 3as to model personas
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Users: those mysterious creatures at the other end of the mouse
Persona modeler
@danachis
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MatthewAttorney House in Brooklyn MarriedLoves his BlackberryHates emailReads NYTimes on iPadAddicted to Words With Friends
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Buying tickets on a university web site for the Big Game
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EdithFollows Detroit Tigers Hates ESPN.com Loves face-to-face online
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DennisBuilding contractor Cell phone is for calling home Very tuned in to current eventsSees no usefulness in FacebookRecently more absent-mindedDifficulty doing standard calculations
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Jane1,000-acre farm Tweets soil chemical readings Tablet instrumented to aggregate data
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• Personas: Archetypal users‣ Composites of real users
‣ Function or task-based
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You: designer & developerHow do you design for these people based on what you know?
Think about each of the people as you answer these questions:
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What can we say about how persistent the person is?
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How pro-active will this person be in solving problems?
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How easily will this person become frustrated?
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How tech savvy is this person?
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How literate is this person in the domain?
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Little data, lots of assumptions
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JaneFarmer nerd
DennisFacebookwhat?
EdithESPN.com-hating Hangouts fan
MatthewBlackberry-loving Brooklyn attorney
How old are they?
54 83 28 60
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How old are they? How educated are they?
How much money do they make?
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These don’t matter.
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If demographics don’t matter, what do you do?
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• persistence with tech
• tolerance for risk & experimentation
• how patient, how easily frustrated
• tech savviness, expertise
• strength of tech vocabulary
• physical or cognitive abilities
Ask the right questions
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•Attitudemotivation, emotion, risk tolerance, persistence, optimism or pessimism
•Aptitudecurrent knowledge, ability to make inferences, expertise
•Ability physical and cognitive attributes
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Persona modeler
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Persona modeler is a technique‣ Focus on the attributes that matter
‣ Accounting for what the user brings to the design
‣ Adjustable to context, relationships, domain
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Persona modeler is a tool‣ Framework to think about provisional or proto-personas (little or no data)
‣ Schema to evaluate existing personas’ strength of coverage
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Persona modeler is a collaboration tool‣ Do our personas cover all the right attributes?
‣ Have we heard from all the users we need to hear from?
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Task + functionality
Buying tickets on a university web site for the Big GameHome or visitor?
Suites or Varsity Club?Student section?
Drunk girls section?
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• Who is the most persistent when it comes to working with technology?
• Who is the most likely to experiment and create workarounds when something doesn’t work the way they expect?
• Who do you think will give up when they encounter frustrations out of impatience?
Ask the right questions
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• Which one is the most tech savvy - expertise? Which one strikes you as the least tech savvy?
• Which one is the most likely to call tech support to help them get out of some tech pickle? Or who will call the 800 number to order rather than using the web site?
• Who will have the most advanced tech vocabulary when they do call for support?
Ask the right questions
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MatthewAttorney House in Brooklyn, marriedAssistant books reservations Loves his BlackberryHates emailReads NYTimes on iPadAddicted to Words With FriendsDoesn’t spend a lot of time on the Web Avid hiker and birderBad knees Needs Rx eyepiece for scope
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Where does Matthew fit?
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EdithAvid sports fanFollows Detroit Tigers Hates ESPN.com Loves face-to-face onlinePicked up Skype early, quickly Prefers Google Hangouts Dropped FaceTime - gestures were frustrating
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Where does Edith fit?
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DennisBuilding contractor Married to a nurseThey have 2 kids8-year-old cell phone Gets current events on the Web Sees no usefulness in FacebookTrouble sleeping, easily distractedIraq + Afganistan: Blunt Force Brain Trauma
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Where does Dennis fit?
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Jane1,000-acre farm 12 different systems every dayTweets soil chemical readings Smartphone alerts from exchangesTablet instrumented to aggregate dataMinimized manual inputArthritic thumbsNeeds stronger progressive lenses
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Where does Jane fit?
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Persona modeling
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How do design decisions change with these attributes?
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Subtlety of affordances
Size of targets
Directness of the happy path
Feedback modalities
Labeling & trigger words
Amount of copy
Wording of instructions & messages
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If you had this tool, what would you do next?
What would be different for your design?
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• Designing for attitude, aptitude, & ability
• Accounting for what the user brings to the design
• Checking that personas cover the right things
Persona modeler
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Persona modeler: fast way to visualize users by asking important questions
framework for talking about who users are
can tell which users might be missing
works with any amount of data
middle ground between demographics and research-based personas
Big ideas
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Where to learn moreDana’s blog: http://usabilitytestinghowto.blogspot.com/
Download templates, examples, and links to other resources from www.wiley.com/go/usabilitytesting