Comments on: The boundaries of personas http://www.pathf.com/blogs/2007/05/the_boundaries_/ Running commentary about agile development, user experience design and Ajax. Fri, 05 Dec 2008 10:17:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Bruce McCarthy http://www.pathf.com/blogs/2007/05/the_boundaries_/#comment-826 Bruce McCarthy Wed, 21 Nov 2007 19:53:04 +0000 http://www.pathf.com/blogs/2007/05/the_boundaries_/#comment-826 <p>Interesting idea, these "anti-personas." I often have a "non-goals" section of my PRD which serves a similar function trying to protect against mission creep. It seems to me that a few well-written personas that include info on what is *not* important to those individuals would serve the same purpose, though, without sacrificing a description of the users you *are* targeting.</p> <p>I attended a good webinar on developing personas put on by User Interface Engineering and posted my notes here:<br /> <a href="http://www.userdriven.org/blog/personas-are-not-fictional-either.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.userdriven.org/blog/personas-are-not-fictional-either.html</a></p> Interesting idea, these “anti-personas.” I often have a “non-goals” section of my PRD which serves a similar function trying to protect against mission creep. It seems to me that a few well-written personas that include info on what is *not* important to those individuals would serve the same purpose, though, without sacrificing a description of the users you *are* targeting.

I attended a good webinar on developing personas put on by User Interface Engineering and posted my notes here:
http://www.userdriven.org/blog/personas-are-not-fictional-either.html

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