[Sigia-l] Personas vs. Audience Analysis

[Dan Saffer]

On Aug 31, 2005, at 7:26 AM, Lada Gorlenko wrote:

> Last time I checked, "too much of something"  meant that something was
> still there and in in sufficient quantity, too. "X is more important
> than Y" means that Y is still considered somewhat important. "X comes
> first and Y comes second" means that Y gets silver medal, and there
> may be millions of others who scored worse than Y :-)

I understand the concept.

I guess what I was getting at is that I'm not sure I would make that  
claim. I can think of examples where the emotional solution is the  
better one over the logical one. The iPod is one example. It was  
priced too high and the technology had been around in other devices,  
but the object is an emotional one. Yes, it works well, but the  
emotional response it engenders is frankly not rational.

Thus, I'm not convinced that thought is always more important than  
emotion.

Dan




Dan Saffer
Sr. Interaction Designer, Adaptive Path
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