[Sigia-l] photos on personas?

[Davezilla]

On 3/27/07, Eric Scheid <eric.scheid at ironclad.net.au> wrote:
> If personas are called for in a project, what sort of photo do you use to
> illustrate them, if at all? Headshots only, or in-context scenes (eg. their
> cubical)? Do you always make them happy smiley people, or do you throw in
> the occasional serious looking (grumpy?) individual?
>
> Are their contexts or situations where you do things a bit different? Well,
> of course there are since "it depends" is our motto ... what are those
> different contexts, and do you have any guesses as to why the other way
> worked bettern then?

I never use photos. I draw them in cartoon form like this one:
<http://www.flickr.com/photos/davezilla/394901139/in/set-72057594049649109/>
People respond better to cartopons than they do to photos. By doing
odd skintones (blue, orange, etc.) I am able to cicrumvent occasional
racial questions raised. Make the style generic enough and you can
circumvent gender issues as well.

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