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

Tamara Adlin (Author), John Pruitt (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0123814189 | ISBN-13: 978-0123814180 | Publication Date: May 25, 2010 | Edition: 1

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.

*Practical and immediately applicable how-to reference guide for building and using personas - from planning, creating, launching, evaluating, and determining ROI

*Invaluable guide that gives you a quick reference for incorporating personas into a product development process

*Features all the essential how-to material from its parent book, The Persona Lifecycle, as a quick, at your fingertips companion

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"Many people think they know how to create personas-but they don't. Hearsay knowledge gathered from surface browsing of a few websites and press releases is a scary and risky background for building a tool on which your user experience is supposed to rest. Better (and safer for your project) to learn from people like Adlin and Pruitt who actually know what they're talking about. As this book shows, personas are not that hard, but there's still more to them than what you can pick up from a blog posting. Read The Essential Persona Lifecycle or suffer." -- Jakob Nielsen, Principal, Nielsen Norman Group

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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.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 240 pages
• Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann; 1 edition (May 25, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0123814189
• ISBN-13: 978-0123814180
• Product Dimensions: 11 x 8.4 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #814,631 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Covers the gamut ! get this with Johnson's Design with the mind in mind!, December 18, 2010

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This review is from: The Essential Persona Lifecycle: Your Guide to Building and Using Personas (Paperback)

This book covers the gamut of Persona development. From conception to retirement.

What I really like about it is that it's very practical, gives clear examples and yet anyone with common sense can really adjust its methodologies to suit any situation. I will never look at flip charts and post it notes in the same way again!

The author advocates assumption based, data based and mixed data/assumption personas depending on the scale and nature of the problem/situation.

With a comprehensive case study and many examples of persona usage in the wild it's a solid text.

The book took me beyond my previous perceptions of the extent of the utility of personas in the wild. It changed them!

I am now convinced that anyone or any organization can and should make use of personas in the development of web experiences or any user experience for that matter.

I think the most amazing testimony I can give is when i actually used the techniques in the wild. You will see exactly how non user centric corporate clients struggle but more importantly you WILL witness the complete transformation of them too! They begin to see not what they want to say but what these "personas" want to hear, what they need to hear.

Totally worth my time and money

Buy the dang book!