Showing posts with label BDD. Show all posts
Showing posts with label BDD. Show all posts

Wednesday, February 24, 2016

How to visualize users with personas

  1. Knowledge
    Biographies of fictitious users of the future product.
    1. Personas are a way to visualize all the future users of an application.
    2. With personas and BDD, we can design user stories based around these understood roles.
  2. Strategy
    1. Begin with a table 3 columns wide. 
    2. Title the columns:
      1. Picture & Name
      2. Personal Information
      3. Goals & Responsibilities
    3. Create semi-fictional personas for all possible users; considering chief officer, investor, auditor, regulator and manager in addition to the usual buyer and seller.
    4. Google image searching for the job title is a quick hack for believable pictures.
    5. Enter semi-fictional personal data to complete the personas. 
  3. Execution