Session 4: Content
Description of Material and Activities Covered in Session 4
Reading
- "Perfecting your Personas" – Kim Goodwin, Aug. 1, 2001
Mini-Lecture
In-class exercise: Persona
Working as a group, write a description (200-500 words) of a person who could be a target of the website for Habitat for Humanity of St. Joseph County (http://www.habitat-for-humanity.org/). Each group will describe someone from a different audience. Sample Persona.
Start by having each person in the group write down a few ideas of ways to describe the person. Don't worry about being inclusive; the person has to be either male or female, for example. Don't worry about creating a statistically perfect model user. You're just trying to describe one potential website visitor.
Feel free to include a few irrelevant details to spice things up.
Here are a few questions you may want to consider:
- What skills and attitudes do they have that connect to their use of the site?
- What are some things the person does, that connect to their interest in the site.
- How would they interact with the site?
- Why would they want to use the site?
- How will they want to feel if they use the site?
- What will they want to get out of the site?
After you finish, designate one person to submit your "persona" as an MS Word .doc file.
Project Work: Web Site Review and Blog
- Continue to work on Web Site Review Project
- Continue to work on the Blog Project
