Reading kickoff: Tappy Toes subteam X & Prongles subteam X are panelist for a moderated discussion about user profiles and half-baked personas.
We will explain the new reading kickoff panel format for students who missed Friday's class.
The panel format is meant to get the class familiar with how panels are run at conferences that bring together students and practitioners from UX Design and related fields.
Panelists at conferences come from different companies, positions, and perspectives so asking questions to multiple people usually yields different answers.
Questions for the user profiles and half-baked personas readings might be:
Can each of our panelists please take a minute or two to tell the audience about you and one of the projects that you work on that can be a project for User Experience Design class or not.
Are personas set in stone things that are not to be modified, or is best practice to change them over time "let them mature" so to speak?
What is meant by the terms "ad-hoc persona" and/or "proto-persona"?
For your Needs Analysis submission, do you think that your team used (or submitted) intermediate personas/profiles?
Who would be a more effective photo to use for a user profile you're developing: Taylor Swift or the random tailor down the street from Olin? Why?
Can a UX team come up with 4 or more stories that could be effective to bring life to a user profile? If so, how should teams pick the story to use?
Does talking to potential users or experts who know about users you’re designing for ever yield conflicting models? Did your team hear things from one person that contradicts what another person said?
How might one approach getting demographics of users according to this reading - and how might you go about determining what demographic information is important to collect for your user group (given the 2019 social climate)?
What are some examples of when target markets (purchasers of products that others will use) and user markets diverge?
Introduction to how convert PDF submission to a project web page
Team Design Consultations:
1:52 - 2:02 Prongles
2:05 - 2:15 Creme Betweens
2:18 - 2:28 Tappy Toes
2:31 - 2:41 Oof Whites
2:44 - 2:54 Oddidos
2:57 - 3:07 Meats by Dre
Consultation topic: how to turn Needs Analysis into the foundation for strong design ideas (to be prototyped on paper).