Todays Meeting

After today’s meeting we have decided to create the personas to evaluate the ideas that are left after stage two.

We have decided that 2 real life and 2 fictional persona's will be documented, this ensures there is a even balance. Furthermore, there we are assuming all the persons attend the same school in Harbourne, Birmingham.

We will be following the Microsoft personas template in the creation of the personas, although one will be a real life user.

The following are benefits of developing personas part of the design process defined by Tina Calabria

• Users' goals and needs become a common point of focus for the project, hence following the user centered design process.
  


• The group can develop personas relatively quickly to gather user requirements
  


• Design efforts can be prioritized based on the personas


• Disagreements over design decisions can be sorted out by referring back to the personas


• Designs can be constantly evaluated against the personas, reducing the frequency of large and expensive usability tests


• One of the personas will be a real life user in order to gain real knowledge from a real potential user

Once the personas have been documented we will create scenarios in which we observe how the personas would interact with the purposed technology.

By doing this, we will have a better indication on how we should design the technology during the creative design and prototyping sections.

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