Jason, I would start with: Engeström, Y., Miettinen, R. & Punamäki, R-L. (Eds.) (1999). Perspectives on Activity Theory. Cambridge University Press. Gay, G....
Larry Constantine
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Oct 3, 2006 2:50 pm
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Thanks, How about Acting with Technology? http://tinyurl.com/hm63v ... Perspectives on ... available?...
To remind... ... Hi All; I invite you to join "Software Requirements Engineering" yahoo group. Post message: Requirements-Engineering@yahoogroups.com ...
Hello kasimsen, thank you for your ideas. On Tuesday, October 3, ... Spam. Spam, spam, spam, spam, spam. ;-> Ron Jeffries www.XProgramming.com Agility might be...
I've started a Meetup group on Agile software in Boulder. I think this is a cool concept. The website handles the coordination of members, meetings, polls,...
Agile and Product Line Engineering Special Issue of the Elsevier Journal of Systems and Software CALL FOR PAPERS Elsevier Journal of Systems and Software -...
Kendra Cooper
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Oct 23, 2006 8:34 pm
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I'm about to embark on the first design session with a multi- disaplinary team at my company. I am going to have the team do some paper prototyping, and I...
Hello, We are pleased to announce our November Usability course dates which are on the 19th and 20th November 2006. This is a 2 Day participatory workshop with...
I have just posted (http://foruse.com/publications) four papers of possible interest to members of this forum: (1) a revised version (improved notation, better...
Larry Constantine
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Nov 9, 2006 4:13 pm
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Hello Friends, 1) Invitation for World Usability day celebration. 2) Attached is the poster for your ref. and to be displayed at your company...
*** LAST REMINDER - APOLOGIES FOR CROSS-POSTING **** On November 14, 2006, Philadelphia will celebrate the Second Annual World Usability Day event titled "User...
Hi Jason, I wrote a course paper on the subject Activity-theory and Personas a few years ago. I have recently updated the article and it is published here: ...
Hello, I am a final year Information Systems student at the University of the West of England, Bristol, UK. I am posting with a request for help with my...
... I can't seem to reconstruct that URL. If that's on a Yahoo Group, we might not have permission to read it. One of my attempts got as far as as a 404: Not...
G'day Haim I think Don Norman's The Design of Everyday Things and Steve Krug's Don't Make Me Think are both excellent books. Another book that I'm a really big...
All: I wanted to get from this group some tactical ideas on changing the user interaction of software more frequently. Let me see if I can say concisely what...
A small client is looking for some training in how to make web-based applications more intuitive and effective. They are looking for opinions on what would...
Belated response (gosh darn that "work" stuff) On 20 Nov 2006, at 23:20, Jeff Patton wrote [snip] ... [snip] Of course this then leads to a tedious discussion...
(responding to Jeff) ... Recently I've been thinking of User Experience as a topic such as Architecture, that needs to be treated in a similar way. If there is...
The first time I heard of personas, back in 1992, the person was creating multiple of these for each role, the idea being that actual people who showed up for...
I often use 1-3 personas for a given role. The reason for using multiple personas is exactly as you mentioned. Users usually have a range of personalities and...
It depends, as we often start small we try to focus on just the bare minimum of personas, often only one per role. During the development and expansion of the...
... You bet we're using multiple personas for each role! Using one persona is liking using marketing data with rounded numbers; marketing will tell you that...
... Another yes to multiple persona per role. That said I think it is a relatively common approach to focus the design effort on a single primary persona -...
There are two sides of this. Yes, its often better to have multiple personas but I don't think that it's an absolut must. especially when you try to bild ...
Recently, I have come to the conclusion that Roles and Personaes are essentially orthogonal to one another, and that you need both. In particular, you need to...