Week 6 - User Personas

Hey There!

Week 6 is now over and I have completed the 2 module. I now have my definitive user personas.
For those who are not familiar, a persona is a fictional character created to represent a potential user segment for a service or product. In this case for Taskly.

Meet John:

John Spencer - User Persona

Pretty cool right ? So now we know what someone like John is looking for in a task management app.
John is not really a person, he is just representing a group of people. I have made two additional personas and you can see them here.

This week, I saw a really cool TED Talk by Don Norman about User centered design. Don defends that Design should make users happy. This is a very laid back and funny video with great truth to it.
Have a look :)

Now that I know who I am building the app for, I dive into Information Architecture. IA, is the creation of a structure for a website, application, or other project, that allows us to understand where we are as users, and where the information we want is in relation to our position. 
Information Architecture results in the creation of site maps, hierarchies, categorisations, navigation, and metadata.

The beginning of module 3 is therefore the creation of the a site map. A site map is a graphical representation of the site information architecture. I am going to conduct some card sorting exercises to get my final architecture.

Come back next week to see the results!

Cya!