User Personas

User Personas

Personas are an integral part of user research. They represent an average user and influence the design process. Here are a few that I have used for past projects. I create my profiles using either Adobe Illustrator or Photoshop.

While researching the usability for the Cake Blog Project I generated a user persona after interviewing a few people that used blogging sites. This persona helped me ask the right questions when redesigning the website so that it would be ready for testing.

These personas were created for the University Meal Site Project. The breakdown of these users helped make design decisions easier. I oftentimes found myself thinking "this wouldn't work for Kaitlyn or Oliver" and that heavily influenced my design decisions.