Wow. That's an incredibly tight focus!
I've always recommended targeting "all human beings" (including blind,
color-blind, and physically handicapped people) mostly because I think
those damn Martians and Jovians are a bunch of whiners. They should
stop complaining about being excluded and just learn to live at one
Earth gravity like normal right-thinking people. Working towards a
maximally useful product wastes resources, and the aliens will never
buy Earth goods anyway.
--Charlie
On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 11:00 AM, Noam Slomianko <nslomian(a)redhat.com> wrote:
After an interesting presentation by Dave Neary today we started
thinking about the persona[*] of the ovirt project users
We focused on the users of the new coming feature of UI plugins.
And this was our vision of an active user:
Name: Dan
Age: 25
Job position: an integrator at a medium sized service company
Technical level: computer savvy person with interest in gadgets and innovations.
Has about two years of java coding experience, but coding may not be his main focus
at work.
Reason for using the UI Plugins feature: After getting requests from his costumers for
simple log monitoring feature, the integration team leader have decided that implementing
this as a Plugin for ovirt
would offer a more centralised solution and has assigned dan to start getting familiar
with it and give him a time estimation for completion.
By creating a more accurate persona(s) of the user base we could more easily understand
the needs of the users and steer the project in more productive and helpful ways for the
people that really need it.
It would be very interesting to see what others think this "person" is like and
what does he need.
so who do you feel is the likely user?
In hopes of making ovirt better and more relevant to its users,
Noam. :)
[*] For those who don't know what a persona is: It's a fictional
"person" that represents the users/costumers/"people of interest" of a
product. by giving this "person" a name, age, education level and other traits
its easier to relate and vision "his" needs
*****
In the future the question we ask ourselves will change from "what do I want?"
to "what do I want to want?"
And if this does not scare you, you haven't thought about it hard enough.
*****
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