Refer to Summers and Summers, chap 3.

Draw on your interview notes to develop user personas and a content inventory.

Start two new pages from your project page

• User Personas
• Content Inventory

User Personas (pp 40 - 49)

Create at least one primary persona and one secondary or complimentary persona, each appropriate to your site, and each listing three or four goals that help you focus your site. Summer and Summer have an example of a persona on p 45. Use the checklist on p. 63 to determine what's necessary. To keep in mind:

• Personas are used to help everyone in your group make design and content decisions.
• They focus is on behavior patterns, goals, skills, attitudes, and environments.
• Develop the personas together, so you each are on the same page as a group.
• Ground your personas in specific details collected and inferred from your user interviews.
• Include 3 - 4 user goals for each persona to help you focus your site.
• Don't get caught up in a fiction. Personas are analytical methods, not character studies. Don't try to be too clever.

I'll be evaluating your personas using the checklist on pp 63.

Content Inventory

This step is not in Summers and Summers, but it's essential for your projects.

As you create your personas, draw up a draft content inventory as you did in the first project for this class. Include

• Item
• Description
• Availability status
• Who's responsible
• When due
• Comments

There's a sample at the bottom of this page.

• While this wiki does tables, you may find it easier to set your content inventory up as a list.
• You will be updating the inventory as you work on your project, so you might want to consider how you're going to keep track of due dates and who's responsible.

Note on Constraints

As you draw up your content inventory, plan around the constraints you're working under:

• six weeks
• the expertise of the people in your group and people who are available to you
• technical limitations of the server

You might split your inventory into two parts: Essential and Optional