Personas and Scenarios
Due Date: 02/01/2008
For this milestone, we each created three personas and two scenarios. After discussing our personas, we saw that there was some overlap between some of our personas. We also noted that there was sort of an anti-persona of people who want to use Engage primarily for the money.
Here are a few of the personas we created for this milestone. Download the pdf for a detailed persona description and scenario.
Rakesh Sundaram
Created by Pratibha
Age: 30
Occupation: PhD student studying Physics
Ethnicity: Asian
Gender: Male
Location: Ann Arbor, MI
Hometown: Bangalore
Marital Status: Married
Children: One Daughter
Hobbies: Listening to classical Indian music, playing with his daughter
more detail [PDF]
Ellen Cranbert
Created by Liz
Age: 40
Occupation: Professor of Education
Ethnicity: Caucasian
Gender: Female
Location: Ann Arbor, MI
Hometown: Detroit, MI
Marital Status: Married
Children: One Son
Hobbies: Gardening, volunteering, spending time with family, going to the farmer's market
more detail [PDF]
Malcom Levy
Created by Tammy
Age: 35
Occupation: Mechanic, Westgate Auto Repair
Ethnicity: African-American
Gender: Male
Location: Ypsilanti, MI
Hometown: Novi, MI
Marital Status: Single
Children: Two Daughters
Hobbies: Playing cards or pool with friends, spending time with kids, and occasionally traveling
more detail [PDF]