Applications Of Personas And Scenarios In User Research

Under the trend of Informationization and Diversification,user became the key of success.Products' exploration should go with User Reaserch.In order to keep up with the step of development we should make people as the heart of design especially the users.Foreign scholars and experts have brought lots of methods and practice on this.These years,some domestic corporations began to use these methods such as Usability Engineering,User Experience,Interaction Design etc.The concept User Centered should be filled into products through some pattern. The exploration of products involved people from various specialities.There are different understandings about users between them.Avioding conflicts and improving efficiency are needed.User Rserch aims at understanding the features of users and acquiring User-Model and removing the diferenets above.It availably pliots design and ensures that design serves users.Persona and scenario combine users and research together as intermediums.Persona comes from real users.It can show the information and thoughts of users as well as the users' need and their requests on products.With personas the needs of user which product should meet is clear.Evaluation of the products can be put out with these needs.Through this constitution,description and use of personas and demand of users became not only the goal of design but also an important reference for evaluating feasibility of products.Scenarios are simulation of the process that the users are using the products.It includes all ingredients which can prognosticate the sealed future.Analysing the scenarios details products are consummated.With scenarios conditions of usability engineering tests can be done and problems can be found and settled.Through constitution,description and use of scenarios the operation of products are consummated and a better interaction design is obtained.In this thesis a flow of production development is setted on the base of former theory and author's experience.In this flow Personas and Scenario are the main methods.The importance of the two methods is showed through the application in case Audition Dance Battle Online and Soybean Milk Machine.And a new idea of using of the two methods in design team in corporation is created according the trend of design in companies.