Exercise Eight - Personas

Name: Edmond

Loves: Working out, partying, playing Call Of Duty (X BOX)

Hates: Sitting in, traveling 

Wears: Muscle shirts, dress shirts, jeans, ball caps

Eats: Meat, fast food

Listens: Dance, rap

Lives: London Ont. 

     

Name: Taylor

Loves: Hanging out with the girlfriends, reading, intelligent conversations

Hates: People who walk slow, fast food

Wears: Headbands, fancy clothes, skirts, jewelry

Eats: Fruits, veggies, the odd steak, cheese 

Listens: Classical, rock, dance

Lives: Paris, France

Stephen James Legomski 

Exercise 8 - Cole, Joe & Josh

Graphic Designer Student
Loves:hanging out, skateboarding, concerts, political activism, Lost, Heroes,Battle Star Galactica.

Hates: Long lectures, exams, waking up early., chick flicks.

Eats:coffee, energy drinks, pizza, chips, whatever's available in the food court.

Listens to: Fall Out Boy, Cobra Starship, Kanye West.

Lives: In parents basement.

Wears, skinny jeans, sneakers, hoody , iPod ( with oversized earphones),



Photography Student
Jenny

Female, 19, Indie look, Photography Student

Loves: texting, yoga stretching, Gossip Girls, Hills, America's Next Top Model, American Idol.

Hates: long lectures, long commutes, slow walking people, cheaters.

Likes to eat: organic food, yogurt, healthy food, salads, vegetarian.

Listen to: Rihanna, City and Colour, The Killers

Where she lives: Residence, Downtown

What she wears: lululemon sweat pants, scarf, jockey cap, sneakers & hoodies.

Exercise Eight - Personas

Exercise Eight - Katie, Justine, Desiree
The Poser Hippy:

The Indie Art Student:

Personas by: Tarz, Brad, Alicia & Charles

Fanny


Loves adventure, camping, outdoors, animals and posing for cameras.

Hates lineups, people who litter, anything that makes her cold.

Listens to classical music, love songs and Barenaked Ladies.

Lives in Toronto in the west end.

Wears scarves, bright colours and as many bracelets as she can.


Matt

Loves big spacers, big greasy hair, colour green, cats and painting

Hates Dogs, "The MAN" and lectures

Listens to loud music, heavy metal, black Ipod and green headphones

Lives in Kensington Market

Wears headbands, scarves, belts, large black pants and has tattoos

Exercise Eight - Sarah, Nicole, Jay

Hippy 

Eats: Vegan food/ vegetables

Loves: Nature and flowers

Hates: The government and industrialization

Listens to: Old rock and psychedelic stuff

Lives: In Kensington

Wear: Dread locks, flowy stuff, hemp clothing

Looks: Spaced out and poorly shaven 

Punk 

Eats: Fast food, red meat

Loves: Anything sharp and black

Hates: Nerds, "the man" and country music

Listens to: Punk 

Lives: In a friends basement

Wears: Dyed hair with crazy colours, safety pins, leather, unusual haircut, tattoos and piercing

Looks Like: Skinny, pale and slightly angry. 

 

Exercise Eight: OCAD Student Personas

As discussed today in class, your constructive feedback to your collegue's Project Two toy concepts should take the form of answers to the following questions:

How (or how not) is the prototype fun? Here, discuss design specifics of the toy - communication strategies, clever mapping, appropriate affordances, etc. - either in terms of design successes, or missed opportunities (and suggestions for improvement). Make reference to course material presentented to date where possible.

Why (or why not) is the prototype fun? Here, discuss your gut feelings about the toy's "fun-ness." This is a more subjective, synthetic and ultimately difficult question than the previous one. Make reference to our (or Donald Norman's) deconstruction of fun where possible.

Who (or who not) is the prototype fun for? This last question should be answered in terms of personas, summarized below. In short, list the which persona(s) the toy or game would appeal to. If none, posit a missing persona, or discuss why this toy or game is inappropriate for the target audience.

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"Personas (figure 5.8) are a documented set of archetypal people who are involved with a product or a service. . . . To create a persona, designers find a common set of behaviours or motivations among the people they have researched. This becomes the basis for the persona, which should be given a name, a picture, and a veneer of demographic data to make the persona seem like a real person."

(from Dan Saffer, Designing for Interaction, 89-119)

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The "veneer of demographic data" for your OCAD Student Personas will consist of, at a minimum, answers to the following questions:

What do they love?

What do they hate?

What do they wear?

What do they eat?

What do they listen to?

Where do they live?

In groups of four, generate two detailed personas, that consist of a name, an image and answers to the above questions, along with any other details that would help make the persona seem like a real person. Post your personas to the blog. Remember to include the names of all the members of your group in your post.

Exercise Eight is due at 11:30 on Monday, February 9.