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User Personas Assignment. IS 485, Professor Matt Thatcher. Assignment. The purpose of this assignment is to develop: User personas for users of an on-line university application A short task list (10-15 tasks) focused on the needs of your user persona
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User Personas Assignment IS 485, Professor Matt Thatcher
Assignment • The purpose of this assignment is to develop: • User personas for users of an on-line university application • A short task list (10-15 tasks) focused on the needs of your user persona • In class we will break up into groups of 4 • each team will be responsible for developing one of four user personas
Assignment • Get out 2 sheets of paper • put your names at the top of each sheet • title 1 “User Persona” and the other “Task List” • You will be assigned one of the following user personas: • A student holding a full-time job • A student focused on developing a successful business career • A parent • An alumni
Assignment • Outline a user persona • Story-like description • Identity (name, age, gender, education, and personality details) • Interests and hobbies • Skills (e.g., job experience, task experience, and level of experience with computers, specific software applications) • Goals • Motivation • Physical characteristics (or limitations) that may affect your design • Develop a short task list (10-15 tasks) • These papers will be turned in!!
In-Class Presentation • Volunteers will present their personas and task lists • Tell us: • Who is your user persona? • be creative, have a person act out the role, ask the persona some questions, give us a real sense of who this person is, what their interests and motivations are, etc. • What tasks does this person want to perform? • Talk for about 5-10 minutes