APG personas are data-driven, meaning they are personas created based on trends and patterns identified via quantitative analysis of actual user data. As such, the APG persona profiles has attributes not found in many other personas. To see some of the features of an APG persona, check out this infographic.
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Personas have broad applicability for digital innovation, giving their applicability for human centered user, customer, and audience understanding in activities such as product development, design, testing, content creation, and marketing. It is important that a persona is fictional (not an actual individual) yet realistic (based on real data from actual users). The persona technique has
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With increasing access to analytics data, personas are more and more generated from online user statistics using big data and algorithmic approaches. This integration offers new opportunities to shift personas from flat files of data presentation to that of interactive interfaces for analytics systems. This transition towards the concept of “persona as interface” to a
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Data-driven persona development unifies methodologies for creating robust personas from the behaviors and demographics of user segments. Data-driven personas have gained popularity in human-computer interaction due to digital trends such as personified big data, online analytics, and the evolution of data science algorithms. Even with its increasing popularity, there is a lack of a systematic
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In addition to developing persona analytics systems and features to create accurate and precise data-driven personas, the APG Team also conducts persona analytics research. Here some of the APG team’s research articles about data-driven personas and persona methods. Check ’em out! Jansen, B. J., Jung, S.G., Salminen, J., Nielsen, L., and Guan, K.W. (2021) Strengths
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False preconceptions about customers can result in poor design, product development, and marketing decisions, so rectifying these preconceptions is essential for businesses. In this research, we quantitatively evaluates the ability of data-driven personas to alter decision makers’ preconceptions about their online social media users. Conduct a within-participant experiment of 31 professionals carrying out a workplace
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