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Creating Functional Personas with AI: A Lean UX Approach

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[email protected] (Paul Boag)

8mo ago· 8 min readen

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.

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Traditional personas suck for UX work. They obsess over marketing metrics like age, income, and job titles while missing what actually matters in design: what people are trying to accomplish.
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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For too long, personas have been created with considerable effort, only to offer limited value. Paul Boag shows how to breathe new life into this stale UX asset and demonstrates that it’s possible to create truly useful functional personas in a lightweigh

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