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Hands-On UX Design for Developers

You're reading from   Hands-On UX Design for Developers Design, prototype, and implement compelling user experiences from scratch.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788626699
Length 350 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Title Page
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Contributors
Preface
1. What is UX? FREE CHAPTER 2. UX Design Process 3. User Behavior Basics and User Research 4. Getting to Know Your Users 5. User Personas 6. Designing Behavior 7. Visual Design Principles and Processes 8. Wireframes and Prototyping 9. UI Design and Implementation 10. Frontend UI Implementation and Process 11. Post-launching UX Activities 12. Designing for Big Data 1. Other Books You May Enjoy Index

What are user personas?


User personas, or just personas, in UX, are fictional characters created to represent a type of user that might use a site, brand, or product in a similar way. The purpose of personas is to create realistic representations of the users who will use our product.

We create these fictional characters based on the previous steps of UX research that we discussed in the three previous chapters. The idea of personas is to create different types of users that might use our product, which will help us to understand the user's needs, experiences, behaviors, and goals.

We can think of user personas as detailed representations of the different segments of our target audience.

With personas, we create a representation of a group of users who exhibit very similar patterns in terms of their behavior in using a particular application or product regardless of age, gender, location, education, or profession. These behaviors are typically specific to a particular technology/product, decisions...

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