- From: Laura Carlson <laura.lee.carlson@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 10:54:07 -0500
- To: "HTML WG" <public-html@w3.org>
On 5/23/07, Stephen Stewart <beowulf@carisenda.com> wrote: > Illustrate each point to several well chosen actors -- I started > thinking of some actors and the best way I could come up with is to > categorise each one on the basis of time they'll spend investing in > the process. My Mum does not want to think about DOCTYPES or CSS or > semantics or anything other than body HTML, so she's at the low end > of that scale; I write HTML professionally and have to think > carefully about the various "specifications" so I'm at the higher end > I suppose. A gardener setting up a site for his new business might be > in the middle of all that. > > (I was a fan of Mark Pilgrim's 'Dive into Accessibility[1]', I sort > of stole this idea from him.) Persona descriptions might help the group get 'on the same page,' when it comes to understanding who our users are. Personas can be a model, not just for communicating ideas, but for discovering ideas as well. The process of creating personas based off of real users is one that might help convert a raw spec into a polished one. It may bring out information from the spec that the group may not understand without going through this type of process. Some references: http://www.d.umn.edu/itss/support/Training/Online/webdesign/testing.html#personas Laura -- Laura L. Carlson Information Technology Systems and Services University of Minnesota Duluth Duluth, MN U.S.A. 55812-3009 http://www.d.umn.edu/goto/webdesign/
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