[Sigia-l] software for persona design

[Andrew Boyd]

Hi Eric,

I am ashamed to say that I have always written free-text personas using 
a text editor. If it has been necessary to plug them into a design tool 
(Visio or one of IBM/Rational's) then this has usually happened after 
the initial analysis rather than as part of an assisted process.

If there was such a tool, and I was to use it, it would:
- supply a template that helped populate a job-specific database with 
useful (in context) information - this might be one or more of (name of 
analyst, date/time written, date/time modified, amendments, source of 
information, title of persona, relative position of persona target in 
the system, current tasks associated, projected tasks associated)
- fit into a workflow system (1. gather 2. verify 3. associate 4. plug 
into wider design)
- offer retrieval by any combination of information type or workflow stage
- have full-ish version control.

I'm sure that there are a hundred things I have missed here that I will 
forehead-slap tomorrow about :)

Cheers, Andrew

Eric Scheid wrote:

>If there was a software tool dedicated to helping you develop user personas,
>what features would it have? What workflow would it encompass?
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