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December 22 2010
Persona Creation and Usage Toolkit
George Olsen's toolkits for creating fully-detailed personas.December 10 2010
December 07 2010
October 27 2010
All models are wrong
Essentially, all models are wrong, but some are useful.
From George Box and Norman Draper’s Empirical Model-Building and Response Surfaces pp. (p. 424). I came across the quote during a discussion of the merits and weaknesses of personas on the AnthroDesign mailing list.
Yes, it’s obvious, but I constantly need reminding; I fall all too easy into the trap of confusing the models I’ve created to understand a problem for the problem itself.
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Before Creating the Car, Ford Designs the Driver - NYTimes.com
Ford has used a design process that uses personas to design their most recent car.August 21 2009
April 15 2009
Personas and politics: The discursive construction of the "user" in Information Architecture - IA Summit 2009
Adrienne Massanari's slides of her presentation at IA Summit 09. She suggests that Personas are useful as boundary objects, but shouldn't be confused for actual users or indeed replace them.
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