Getting to Know You, Getting to Know Your Users

Description:

One of the best ways to improve your software is to better understand your users. And the best way to understand your users is to listen to them. Having a vision of a prototypical users helps create empathy on the development teams as well as provide a focus for the entire product development team.

Join Elisa as she walks you through the persona creation journey and try building a person yourself.

Practical Skills:

• Be able to describe what a persona is and how the creation of personas can help a software development team
• Be able to create the kinds of questions needed to elicit information from users
• Be able to take the information and create a basic persona

Prerequisites:

• None