As noted in an earlier post, we developed personas to guide our development and to serve as users in our product mock-ups. When the design team creates a template for what the commenting structure might look like and how it might function, they use the Bristol, Willow and Track personas to post example comments.
The basic characteristics of our personas were hashed out a few weeks ago and we have been adjusting and building upon them ever since. They now have histories, families, hobbies, friends, media interests and, of course, facebook profiles. This enhanced familiarity with Bristol, facilitates the design team’s creation of comments she might make on a particular article (e.g. what she would say, how she would like to say it, and who she would want to say it to), which ultimately helps us create something geared to those needs.
These Web sites have good examples of what a bio/persona should look like:
Chopsticker Agile Modeling
p.s. We think Bristol-berrywould dress up as Sarah Palin for Halloween.
