[Design] Use cases and personas for a redesign of osm.org (was Re: SotM11: BoF meeting)

[Michal Migurski]

On Sep 13, 2011, at 4:47 PM, Kai Krueger wrote:

> On 9/13/11 2:50 PM, Michal Migurski wrote:
> [...]
>>>> Need to know use cases
>>> Agreed - we just need to be careful to make it the use cases we want to support rather than all the use cases anybody on the talk list would like us to support.
>> More broadly, we talked about the idea that it made little sense to move forward on potential designs before identifying the audiences who needed to be served by these designs. It can be quite contentious to move directly toward proposed solutions unless we successfully de-personalize the issues through the use of tools like personas and use-cases.
>> 
>> Examples of personas might include experienced editors, hopeful newbies, downstream data consumers, upstream bulk data producers, etc.
> 
> Not that it matters too much under who's umbreller this happens, but perhaps the strategic working group (cc'ed in this thread) can take the lead on trying to come up with specific use cases and personas the redesigned website should cater for and thus which features it should offer.
> 
> Once that design brief is established, one can start thinking about the actual design.

Huh, I didn't know there was a strategic working group. They sound like the right people to help review use cases to guide the design of the front page.

-mike.

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