Who are the people in your neighborhood?

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UXDers often rely on personas to build a more complete understanding of the types of users that will interact with the applications they are working on. Writing the stories for those personas used to be hard for me until I started using other stories as inspiration for them. This is a completely unscientific, highly incomplete look at some of the personality types you find in communities, online and off. Think about how these and other stories might be used as the basis for your persona development. This was a 5-minute lightning talk for Webstock Mini (http://www.webstock.org.nz/birthday.html) and updated to a 10-minute talk for UX Australia 2009 (http://www.uxaustralia.com.au/conference-2009/10-minute-talks).

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acidlabsStephen CollinsWho are the people

in your neighborhood?

I used tohate personas

Then I realised they werejust stories

I’m anEnglish Lit major

I’m into movies...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/lanuiop/2565966351/

… and comics

http://www.flickr.com/photos/roscoe/2598303289/

… and science fiction

http://www.flickr.com/photos/redneck/186228784/

… and weird stuffon TV

Why not use the stories I love to invent personas?

Let’s have some fun!

WTF?

The leader

The friend

The enthusiast

The odd but nice one

The one-topic guy

The odd couple

The grumbler

The newbie

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So...

Stephen “trib” Collins

trib@acidlabs.org+61 410 680722

@tribwww.acidlabs.org

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