Meeting 4: Personas Discussion

Today we met to discuss the personas we would create to assist us in the design and development of our product idea.

Having now decided to focus on the over 60s age group, the members of the group agreed to develop a persona each and post these to the blog in the next few days, ready for our next meeting scheduled for Monday 12th February.

It was decided that, ideally, each persona should represent a different age bracket (e.g. 60 - 65, 66 - 70, 70 - 80, and 80+) and have a different social, economic and cultural background to enable us to consider, and cater for, a broader section of society.

To assist us in this process, the team will be sourcing, reading and sharing articles on the concept of personas, in addition to those articles highlighted in recent HCI lectures:

• Perfecting Your Personas
• Personas: Practice and Theory
• Design basics

Furthermore, the team will begin researching, and developing, their persona through the observation and interviewing of elderly family members and those individuals to whom our product is aimed.