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Get personal with personas

Persona development can be contradictory. We use personas to validate and stress-test user journeys, scenarios, navigation models and so on, but we often don’t stress-test the personas themselves to see if they withstand scrutiny.

 

A sketch of a persona

Tim Caynes

Categories: User-centered design | UX Design

Complexity…

They say the world has become too complex for simple answers. They are wrong." Ronald Reagan

Behind the scenes, today’s products and services are very complex. The challenge for design teams grows and companies struggle to create the increasingly important illusion of simplicity.

 

A lonely component robot

Meriel Lenfestey

Categories: Experience strategy | User-centered design | UX Design

The baguette experience

You are a weary business traveler at an international train station. And you have one pressing problem: you are hungry. Luckily, you spot a baguette chain store and decide to take a closer look. Their baguettes look amazing, especially that one on the right; fresh tomatoes and mozzarella in a crusty French baguette.

 

A lovely picture of a beguette

Jan Srutek

Categories: Customer experience | Service design

The future’s bright, the future’s playful

It is perhaps fitting that, as we scrambled to the finish line of Playful 11, the last thing we had to do was stack the chairs in Conway Hall so that the ballroom dancing could start on time.  Last time I stacked chairs to make way for dancing was at school, at a time when I thought the future was bright, shiny and full of opportunities.

 

Illustrating on an overhead projector

Tim Caynes

Categories: Creativity | Events | Gaming