Personas: Practice and theory

Proceedings of the 2003 Conference on Designing for User Experiences, DUX '03

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages

  Pruitt, John ^a   Grudin, Jonathan ^b  

^a MICROSOFT   (United States)

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Design method; Personas; Scenarios; User archetypes; User profiles; User research; User centered design

Indexed keywords

DESIGN METHOD; INTERACTION DESIGN; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; QUANTITATIVE DATA; SOFTWARE PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT; TEAM MEMBERS; USABILITY METHODS; USER CENTERED DESIGNS; USER PROFILE; USER RESEARCH;

DESIGN; PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT;

SOFTWARE DESIGN;

EID: 77952344830     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/997078.997089     Document Type: Conference Paper

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