Comments on: Lene Nielsen’s Personas http://blog.jhincapie.com/2009/01/16/lene-nielsens-personas/ Turning Point, Reversal of Circumstances Mon, 12 Dec 2011 06:28:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: jhincapie http://blog.jhincapie.com/2009/01/16/lene-nielsens-personas/#comment-506 Mon, 12 Dec 2011 06:28:06 +0000 http://jhincapier.wordpress.com/2009/01/16/lene-nielsens-personas#comment-506 Hello Samina,

Lene Nielsen is an associate professor at the IT University of Copenhagen (www.itu.dk), so you can surely learn from her if you’re enrolled. Else you can visit her website (http://www.lenenielsen.com/english/) and check out some of the posts and resources she maintains there.

Regards,
Juan David

]]> By: samina http://blog.jhincapie.com/2009/01/16/lene-nielsens-personas/#comment-505 Mon, 12 Dec 2011 05:49:48 +0000 http://jhincapier.wordpress.com/2009/01/16/lene-nielsens-personas#comment-505 Can I learn persona creation from dr. neilsen directly? how?

]]> By: Lene Nielsen http://blog.jhincapie.com/2009/01/16/lene-nielsens-personas/#comment-32 Mon, 19 Jan 2009 14:52:00 +0000 http://jhincapier.wordpress.com/2009/01/16/lene-nielsens-personas#comment-32 Thank you Juan for summing up my work. I am sure not many have read my Ph.d. thesis, so nice to know that someone did.From my thesis on my work has changed slightly but a lot still remain. As you write I relate my construction of personas somewhat on Egri, but also on the definition of engagement as presented by Murray Smith.I do understand you confusion about archetypes and stereotypes and it might not be well described. They do share the same condition of allowing descriptions of only one character trait.In your summery you look at my writings and do not distinguish between the theoretical work, my experience from practice and my practical advice. Some of the things that I have written I have written in a special context. This goes for the advice about sending personas together with offshore projects. In an ideal world someone from the off-shore team should participate, but that might not be likely and if the designers at least had a personas description to relate to, they will be better off than without anything at all.The experiment is an experiment. I redid with more participants from all over the globe. I have not yet written about that, these had the same strategies, but provide more nuanced photos to illustrate the persona. My conclusion is that it seems as if experience plays a bigger role than culture.

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