User Description - Personas, Task analysis, Scenarios and workflow

We can different techniques to describe your users:

Task analysis

  • Communicate what users want to do on your site by listing the user tasks.

Personas

  • A design tool and reference point to make decisions during project. Fictional people represent the different key user groups.

Scenarios (goal and story based)

  • Elaborate on the tasks in the task analysis with more context around the goals users may have on your site.

Workflow/customer journey

  • Illustrate the individual steps a user goes through on your site to reach their goal. To ensure an intuitive and logical user experience is built each process and the links between these are documented.
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