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The Essential Persona Lifecycle: Your Guide to Building and Using Personas

By
  • Tamara Adlin, Experience Strategist, adlin, inc.
  • John Pruitt, Senior Program Manager, SharePoint, Microsoft

Personas play an essential role in the development of successful products. Without creating profiles of target customers and studying them throughout your product development lifecycle, it’s impossible to truly understand user need, context, and pain points. The Essential Persona Lifecycle is an easy-to-reference guide on persona creation, use, and evaluation. Whether you are a student or a UX practitioner, if you are developing products that people are intended to use, this book is for you.

Paperback, 240 Pages

Published: May 2010

Imprint: Morgan Kaufmann

ISBN: 978-0-12-381418-0

Contents

  • Introduction: The Persona Lifecycle

    Phase 1: Planning a Persona Effort

    Phase 2: Creating Personas

    Phase 3: Launching and Communicating Personas

    Phase 4: Using Personas

    Phase 5: ROI and Reuse of Personas

    Conclusion

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