Hi gang,
This thread (and the Winged Monkey thread) has been a great start. As the resident UX guy,
I've taken the first step at pushing the conversation forward by repackaging the
personas that Hugh sent out and added it to the Aeolus wiki. You can find it here:
https://redmine.aeolusproject.org/redmine/projects/aeolus/wiki/Personas
Along with some minor cleanup of the existing doc, I've added an introduction inspired
by conversation in this thread, and taken a first stab at naming the personas. Names like
Marty the Infrastructure Manager can help add empathy to our decison making. in the future
when we discuss an aspect of the experience, it may be be helpful to think about whether
Marty would want this vs that. By all means, if you have better names than these feel free
to make changes, I am positive you all can do better than my feeble first attempt.
Next steps
Input and Validation
It's in the wiki now, so we can have at it. I know that the source work from Spring
2011 was vetted to some degree already with PM. I'll reach out once again to see if
there is any further input they can provide. I'd also like to know if any of you have
suggestions for any customer-facing folks that would be good to sync with - please let me
know.
Format
There's no set format for personas, we can make it what we need it to be. I maintained
what was in the document Hugh sent, except the communication diagram. We can add to,
change and delete any of this as we see fit. I'm not positive that some of the facets
in the source doc are that useful, and I have omitted the communication chart for now as
it was difficult to translate into text. Also, one thing I think I think we should
consider adding is a usage scenario, like "a day in the life" which describes
typical use and intent in a few sentences. I didn't take a stab at this yet though.
- Jeremy