m cameron jones

Just gave my presentation on “Teaching Design with Personas”. I’ve uploaded slides in [ PPT ]. I’ll upload pdf or pptx when I get home and manage to fix my laptop. As is typical, I went a bit long which means that I had to rush the last slides, and the session chair eventually cut me off two bullet points from the end.

Here is the abstract for the paper:

Design is a central activity in HCI, but a design-centered approach to HCI has only recently gained traction in human-centered computing education. In this paper, we explore the effectiveness of persona-based design methods in HCI and human-centered computing education. We describe the experiences of our students in learning, practicing, and using personas in a number of design contexts. From these experiences, we identify common patterns of use and misuse and characterize challenges in incorporating and using personas in the classroom. We conclude with advice on how to effectively teach design using personas.