The following is a post from the APG Team’s summer 2020 intern, Jaad Mohammed. Always good to get a fresh perspective! ——– Reflection of Personas from a Beginner by Jaad Mohammed Before starting my internship at QCRI with the APG team, I had no idea about the concept of personas. At my introductory meeting, I […]
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Using personas for UX design means considering the needs of the users that the persona represents to design products (e.g., websites) such that their user experience for those users is optimized. For example, a persona can be someone who is technically sophisticated, elderly or has disabilities, which means that the design needs to consider accessibility
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Introduction to Data-Driven Personas Automatic Persona Generation (APG) is a system developed by the persona research team at Qatar Computing Research Institute. APG is defined both as a methodology and a system for automatic creation of personas from online analytics data. Automatic Persona Generation has specifically been developed to address the limitations of manual persona
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What are Personas and Why Use Them? Personas are fictional characters or ‘profiles’ that portray a certain type of customer or user. The development of a persona should go beyond just providing background information on the organization’s ideal customers. The persona profile should also include other features, such as current behaviors the persona exihibits as
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In this post, I’m exploring the usefulness of personas in the era of digital analytics. At Qatar Computing Research Institute, we have developed a system for automatic persona generation (APG) – see the demo. Under the leadership of Professor Jim Jansen, we’re constantly working to position this persona system at the intersection of customer profiles, personas,
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Introduction to Persona Use Cases Personas are imaginary people representing the core audience or customers of a company or organization. Personas were introduced into software development and marketing in the 1990s. Personas capture and describe key elements of customer segments so that decision makers could better understand their users or customers, not only by using
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