Books
The Essential Persona Lifecycle:
Your Guide to Building and Using Personas
Tamara Adlin & John Pruitt
The Essential Persona Lifecycle: Your Guide to Building and Using Personas offers a practical guide to the creation and use of personas, which can help product designers, their team, and their organization become more user focused. This book is for people who just need to know what to do and what order to do it in. It is completely focused on practical tools and methods, without much explanation on why the particular tool or method is the right one.
The Persona Lifecycle:
Keeping People in Mind Throughout Product Design
John Pruitt & Tamara Adlin
I’ve been working with, writing about, speaking on, and innovating around personas since I read Alan Cooper’s Inmates book in 1999. There’s no question about personas that I can’t help you answer. I know why so many persona efforts fail, and why personas are still an irreplacable tool for UX practitioners.
“Personas personified. The definitive word on why personas are better than people in guiding your designs. Filled with case histories, sidebars, and helpful, useful guidelines as well as deep, penetrating analyses. A big book, and for reason. This book is unique in that it is truly for everyone: the practitioner, the researcher, and the teacher.”
Don Norman, author of Emotional Design and The Design of Everyday Things
“Personas are powerful design tools, which are that much more dangerous if they are grounded in weak methodology. Pruitt and Adlin show you how to do personas right and how to base them on real user data. Follow their advice or risk disaster.”
Jakob Nielsen, author of Usability Engineering and Designing Web Usability: The Practice of Simplicity
