How to create a persona?

There are many persona development methodologies. Yer, persona creation tends to involve five general steps, which are:

• Identify: Categorize the population of customers, users, or audience members
• Collect: Gather data about the identified populations specifically concerning behaviors (or goals, pain points, etc.) and demographics. (Data can be gathered through persona interviews or automatically.)
• Segment: Group the population into unique segments based on unique behaviors, goals, pain points, etc.
• Generate: Produce identifiable complete segments with combined behavioral and demographic data
• Enrich: Augment each complete segment with individual characteristics, such as photo, name, etc. to create a complete persona profile for each segment. The set of persona profiles that represents the population is the end product of the process.

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Jung, S., An, J., Kwak, H., Ahmad, M., Nielsen, L., and Jansen, B. J.  (2017) Persona Generation from Aggregated Social Media Data. ACM Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2017 (CHI2017). Denver, Colorado. p. 1748-1755. 6-11 May