Personas Readings

For those you who listened in for my session the Education Partnership’s national teleconference on personas on May 3, I thought you might like some further reading links:
This is my favourite article on the topic:
Personas: Practice and Theory from Microsoft.
Other good reads are:
Personas: Setting the Stage for Building Usable Information Sites by Alison J. Head
Personas: Matching a Design to the Users’ Goals by Christine Perfetti
An introduction to personas and how to create them by Tina Calabria
There’s a good webliography here.
I highly recommend reading Alan Cooper’s “The Inmates Are Asylum “. That’s the basic text on the concept. It’s available used on Amazon for not a bad price.
Alan Cooper runs a website where you can find out more too. His article on The Origin of Personas is there too. You cna subscribe to his free newsletter here.
Two SirsiDynix clients that have used persona work independently are the University of Toronto and Hamilton Public Library.
Stephen