[Irl-dean] A wee conundrum

[Laurence Veale]

Another recent post on personas that I think highlights the real
benefit of personas: stakeholder communication....

http://www.disambiguity.com/yes-you-should-be-using-personas/

On 4/25/07, Mark Magennis <Mark.magennis at ncbi.ie> wrote:
> I was just doing a bit of reading about interaction design and I
> repeatedly came across the following statement about the value of
> using personas:
>
> "defining and designing for a set of specific personas helps to avoid
> the common practice of trying to design for all users".
>
> So is there a fundamental conflict between Design for All and good
> interaction design practice? Or is Design for All not the same thing
> as designing for all users?
>
> Discuss.
>
> Mark
>
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