Developing Steve User Personae

The group of project members come from all walks of the museum life.  Using their backgrounds we performed an exercise in user-centered design.  We developed personae of more than 100 fictitious individuals who might use the tools we will develop in some shape or form.  Using these people as reference we then wrote scenarios describing how these users would specifically use tools we might develop.  The final outcome was a list of approximately 250 requirements to satisfy the developed scenarios.  The NMC, who is administering the grant, guided us through this process which I found very effective.

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We also posted our pictures from the trip.