[Sigia-l] which comes first: user scenarios or user personas?

[Pabini Gabriel-Petit]

Hi Eric

For me, it's somewhat iterative. One needs some kind of user profile to
identify good subjects for user research, but the research elicits the
information needed to create detailed, realistic personas. It's a matter of
refinement. Task analysis precedes high-level task scenario development,
which occurs during conceptual modeling. Then, during the design phase, I
develop usage scenarios, which describe user interactions as step-by-step
procedures. So, user modeling and task analysis are discovery activities,
while scenario development is a design activity.

Pabini
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Pabini Gabriel-Petit
Principal & User Experience Architect
Spirit Softworks
www.spiritsoftworks.com

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Eric Scheid" <eric.scheid at ironclad.net.au>
To: "sigia l" <sigia-l at asis.org>
Sent: Saturday, May 22, 2004 11:48 PM
Subject: [Sigia-l] which comes first: user scenarios or user personas?


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> I'm curious to know how others go about their practice - do you develop
user
> scenarios before user personas, or the other way around, or a bunch of
> re-iterative cycles?
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