Personas

A Literature Review of Quantitative Persona Creation

Quantitative persona creation (QPC) has tremendous potential, as HCI researchers and practitioners can leverage user data from online analytics and digital media platforms to better understand their users and customers. However, there is a lack of a systematic overview of the QPC methods and progress made, with no standard methodology or known best practices. To

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Personas and Analytics: A Comparative User Study of Efficiency and Effectiveness for a User Identification Task

Personas are a well-known technique in human-computer interaction. However, there is a lack of rigorous empirical research evaluating personas relative to other methods.  In this 34-participant experiment, my colleagues and I compare a persona system and an analytics system, both using identical user data, for efficiency and effectiveness for a user identification task.  Results show

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Personas and Empathy Mapping for Understanding Customers and Users

The following is a post from the APG Team’s summer 2020 intern, Jaad Mohammed. ——– Personas are an effective way to target a specific customer base, since we have a better understanding of who that customer base is and what those customers want, need, or desire. In other words, personas provide a means to empathize

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SEO Personas: How to implement persona-driven search engine optimization (SEO) for a website, Part 2

The following is a post from the APG Team’s summer 2020 intern, Jaad Mohammed. ——– SEO Personas: How to implement persona-driven search engine optimization (SEO) for a website, Part 2 by Jaad Mohammed. (Read Part 1.) In this blog post, we discuss persona-driven search engine optimization (SEO) or SEO personas. For this, we need to

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SEO Personas: Persona-driven search engine optimization (SEO), Part 1

The following is a post from the APG Team’s summer 2020 intern, Jaad Mohammed. ——– SEO Personas: Persona-driven search engine optimization (SEO), Part 1 by Jaad Mohammed. Read Part 2. Search engine optimization (SEO) is defined as the process of increasing the quality and quantity of website traffic by raising the visibility of a website

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