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"I heard people speak of Web Authors and Web Developers and making various distinctions about them. I heard some folks of arguing that this audience of ours pre
by politician 15y ago
"I heard people speak of Web Authors and Web Developers and making various distinctions about them. I heard some folks of arguing that this audience of ours prefers markup over scripts, and when faced with concrete examples of the opposite, retort that those are just some script library folk, not the majority."
Get these people some personas, stat!
- jasonrr 15y agoI find that personas are nearly useless for this kind of design discussion. Personas are an attempt to homogenize some group of people into a single pseudo-person that has specific attributes. When the lines between personas are hard to draw or there are so many lines that you wind up with lots of personas, you can find yourself spending lots of time managing personas without a ton of direction or solving anyone's problems. For a heterogenous audience like "web makers" of various types, an activity centered approach can be really helpful. Don Norman explains this idea better than I ever could: http://jnd.org/dn.mss/human-centered_design_considered_harmful.html http://jnd.org/dn.mss/human-centered_design_considered_harmf... http://www.jnd.org/dn.mss/hcd_harmful_a_clarification.html http://www.jnd.org/dn.mss/hcd_harmful_a_clarification.html
- politician 15y agoThanks, those links were well worth the read.