User Persona

  • Users may experience problems in different ways (especially those in different roles)
  • Segment Research efforts to focus on your most priced customers

What is a User Persona?

Customer Personas are representations of segments of your customer base. Personas can be segmented by demographic and/or psychographic attributes of your users/customers.

In this platform we will use a Persona to identify which customer segment(s) benefits most from the opportunity and how intense their desire for a solution is.

Personas are structured as follows:

  • Desired Outcome
    • Product Opportunity
      • User Persona
        • Customer Journey
        • Research Studies
        • Product Concepts
      • Other Personas ...
    • Other Opportunities ...
  • Other Outcomes ...

How would I use a User Persona?

To use a User Persona, you'd use these steps:

  1. Define a Desired Outcome.
  2. Define an Opportunity or Collect Feedback from Customers.
  3. Define a Persona (and related assumptions, e.g. assumed information and customer journey)
  4. Conduct Research with customers (similar to the persona) to learn about their experiences and to see if what they say/do matches your assumptions (especially about the problem statement).
  5. Use the finding to refine assumptions and identify if the opportunity is worth pursuing.
  6. If worth pursuing, Use the validated assumption and research findings to create several product concepts, to test usability with customers and the amount of effort required to release a finished product/feature.
  7. Define custom Priority Factors, set factor scores on each Opportunity (then watch it reorder itself, ready to be added to your Roadmap).

Feedback Prioritising with Custom Factors

Define a User Persona

To define a User Persona:

  1. Sign in to your account.
  2. Expand the Desired Outcome you want to add the User Persona to.
  3. Expand the OP-1 (Opportunity view) you want to add the User Persona to.
  4. Expand the Personas view.
  5. Enter a persona name (e.g. Jamie) in the Add Persona + Enter field and press the Enter key
Validating Jamie

Update a User Persona

To update a User Persona:

  1. Sign in to your account
  2. Expand the Desired Outcome for that User Persona.
  3. Expand the OP-1 (Opportunity view) for that User Persona.
  4. Expand the Personas view.
  5. Click the
    (Edit button) of the User Persona.
    You will see a popup dialog box with title 'Edit User Persona':

    Edit User Persona
    Title
    Jamie
    Status
    Validating
    Update
    Cancel
  6. Apply your Changes.
  7. Finally, click Update button.
    Note: The User Persona will be updated immediately.

Delete a Product Opportunity

To delete a User Persona:

  1. Sign in to your account.
  2. Expand the Desired Outcome for that User Persona.
  3. Expand the OP-1 (Opportunity view) for that User Persona.
  4. Expand the Personas view.
  5. Click the
    (Delete button) of the User Persona.
    You will see a popup dialog box with title 'Delete User Persona':

    Delete User Persona
    Title
    Are you sure you want to delete this User Persona?
    Warning
    This opportunity will be permanently deleted
    Delete
    Cancel
  6. Finally, click Delete button.
    Note: The User Persona will be deleted immediately.

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