Who are your primary and secondary users?<\/p>\n
Primary Users:<\/strong><\/p>\n Random citizens<\/p>\n High school students on field trips<\/p>\n Objibwa Community College students<\/p>\n MTU Environmental Engineering students<\/p>\n Eventually:<\/p>\n Tourist visiting Lightfoot Bay<\/p>\n Amateur Scientist downloading the app from the web<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Secondary Users:<\/strong><\/p>\n High school teacher<\/p>\n Community College instructors<\/p>\n MTU Professor<\/p>\n Maybe:<\/p>\n MTU and NSF scientist<\/p>\n<\/div>\n You should target your app design for the primary user, but also check the usability against the secondary users.<\/p>\n Perhaps you think that you know the MTU Environmental Engineering students. Do you really? But, you certainly do not know the high school students or the Objibwa Community College students.<\/p>\n Can give some attributes for the high school students?<\/p>\n Bully and tell other’s what to do<\/p>\n ADS, does not pay attention<\/p>\n Eager to learn<\/p>\n “Above it all” and does not want to comply<\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/p>\n How tall are they? What are their ages? What are the technology experiences?<\/p>\n All the attributes can be contradictory. How can we express them?<\/p>\n They are hypothetical descriptions of specific potential users. They are a member of a class of user. They are not generalities rather they are specific characteristics. These give your potential users a face.<\/p>\n Website for personas:<\/p>\n Personas are<\/strong> said to be cognitively compelling<\/strong> because they put a personal human face on otherwise abstract data about customers. By thinking about the needs of a fictional persona, designers may be better able to infer what a real person might need. Such inference may assist with brainstorming, use case specification, and features definition. Pruitt and Adlin argue that personas are easy to communicate<\/strong> to engineering teams and thus allow engineers, developers, and others to absorb customer data in a palatable format. They present several examples of personas used for purposes of communication in various development projects.<\/p>\nPersonas<\/h2>\n
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