Creating and Using Personas in Software Development: Experiences from Practice.

Jane Billestrup, Jan Stage, Anders Bruun, Lene Nielsen, Kira Storgaard Nielsen

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    Abstract

    Personas is a technique that supports designing and engineering interactive systems with the focus on the end-users. This paper reports from a case study, where we interviewed four software developers about their usage of personas in software development practice. The purpose of was to identify the practices of personas development in the software development industry. How the respondents perceive personas and its use does not always correlate with what is described as best practice in the literature. We found that practitioners are not using personas as stated in the literature but are developing their own practices both in regards to when and how personas are created.
    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationHuman-Centered Software Engineering (HCSE)
    EditorsStefan Sauer, Christian Bogdan, Peter Forbrig, Regina Bernhaupt, Marco Winckler
    Number of pages8
    Volume8742
    Place of PublicationBerlin
    PublisherSpringer
    Publication date2014
    Edition2014
    Pages251-258
    ISBN (Print)978-3-662-44810-6
    ISBN (Electronic)978-3-662-44811-3
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2014
    SeriesLecture Notes in Computer Science
    Volume8742
    ISSN0302-9743

    Keywords

    • Personas
    • Software development practice
    • Persona creation

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