The Essential Persona Lifecycle: Your Guide to Building and Using Personas - Tapa blanda

Adlin, Tamara; Pruitt, John

 
9780123814180: The Essential Persona Lifecycle: Your Guide to Building and Using Personas
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ISBN 10: 0123814189 ISBN 13: 9780123814180
Editorial: Morgan Kaufmann Publishers In, 2010

Sinopsis

The Essential Persona Lifecycle: Your Guide to Building and Using Personas offers a practical guide to the creation and use of personas, which can help product designers, their team, and their organization become more user focused. This book is for people who just need to know what to do and what order to do it in. It is completely focused on practical tools and methods, without much explanation on why the particular tool or method is the right one. The book discusses the five phases of persona lifecycle: Family planning ― Basic ideas and a few tools that will help one get organized Conception and gestation ― Step-by-step instructions to move from assumptions to completed personas Birth and maturation ― Strategic techniques to get the right information about ones personas out to ones your teammates at the right time Adulthood ― Specific tools that will ensure that ones personas are used by the right people at the right times and in the right ways during the product development cycle Lifetime achievement and retirement ― Basic ideas and a few tools to you measure the success of the persona effort and prepare for the next one

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Acerca de los autores

Tamara Adlin is the Principal consultant at Adlin, Inc. She was formerly a Customer Experience Manager at Amazon.com. For the past six years, John and Tamara have been researching and using personas, leading workshops, and teaching courses at professional conferences and universities. They developed the Persona Lifecycle model to communicate the value and practical application of personas to product design and development professionals.

John Pruitt is a User Research Manager for the Tablet and Mobile PC Division at Microsoft Corporation. Since joining Microsoft in 1998, he has conducted user research for a number of products including Windows 98SE, Windows 2000 Professional, Windows XP, and MSN Explorer, versions 6, 7 & 8. Prior to Microsoft, he was an invited researcher in the Human Information Processing Division of the Advanced Telecommunications Research Laboratory, in Kyoto, Japan, and also worked as a civilian scientist doing simulation and training research for the U.S. Navy.

John holds a Ph.D. in experimental psychology from the University of South Florida and has published articles and chapters on usability methods, skill training, naturalistic decision-making, speech perception and second-language learning. He has been creating and using personas for more than five years, continually developing a more rigorous approach to the method and mentoring numerous product teams at Microsoft and companies worldwide in adopting the technique. John has led workshops and spoken widely on the topic at both academic and industry events.

De la contraportada

Personas play an essential role in the development of successful products. Without creating profiles of target customers and studying them throughout your product development lifecycle, its impossible to truly understand user need, context, and pain points. The Essential Persona Lifecycle is an easy-to-reference guide on persona creation, use, and evaluation. Whether you are a student or a UX practitioner, if you are developing products that people are intended to use, this book is for you.

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Personas play an essential role in the development of successful products. Without creating profiles of target customers and studying them throughout your product development lifecycle, its impossible to truly understand user need, context, and pain points.The Essential Persona Lifecycle is an easy-to-reference guide on persona creation, use, and evaluation. Whether you are a student or a UX practitioner, if you are developing products that people are intended to use, this book is for you.

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Editorial
Morgan Kaufmann Publishers In
Año de publicación
2010
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ISBN 10 
0123814189
ISBN 13 
9780123814180
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Número de páginas
240
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