Personas are nothing new, but are becoming increasingly important to intranets and managers who want to better understand employees, and their information preferences and paths on the corporate intranet or portal.

Developing personas allows anyone developing or designing, or for that matter, writing, to focus on a person rather than referencing multiple data points,” says Catherine Elder, senior consultant, Prescient Digital Media. “People respond to people, they are easier to remember than a compilation of data. Personas help a team focus on important aspects of target users – they simplify the reference points.”

Below are the slides from Catherine's recent webinar on “Creating personas.”


For a more in-depth read, see Focusing on your website user by developing personas.

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