Creating Functional Personas with AI: A Lean UX Approach
By
[email protected] (Paul Boag)
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Summary
The article presents a practical approach to creating functional personas for UX design, moving away from traditional marketing-focused personas that emphasize demographics. Instead, it advocates for personas that focus on what users are trying to accomplish, using AI to create lightweight, useful personas that actually benefit the design process rather than being created and then ignored.
Key quotes
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Functional personas, on the other hand, focus on what people are trying to do
For too long, personas have been something that many of us just created, despite the considerable work that goes into them, only to find they have limited usefulness.
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