Report title: Assumption Personas Help Overcome Hurdles To Using Research-Based Design Personas
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6 page (2907 word) report published Nov 04, 2009

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Forrester recommends that customer experience professionals use personas founded in ethnographic research to guide the design of products, channels, and messages. However, some organizations struggle to use personas effectively. To overcome common barriers to persona use, customer experience professionals should brainstorm with key stakeholders to create roughly sketched profiles of target customers, called assumption personas. This exercise helps build the case for creating real personas, gets stakeholders to think about their business goals in customer-centric terms, and generates hypotheses about target customers for testing in subsequent ethnographic research. Customer experience professionals must ensure that assumption personas are viewed as a step toward customer insight rather than an end in themselves. They are valuable tools for kicking off persona projects, but they aren't fit for guiding design decisions.

Report Type: Trends
Source: Forrester Research, Inc.
Author: Jonathan Browne
Contributors:  Harley Manning; Moira Dorsey; Vidya L. Drego; Angela Beckers; Shelby Catino
Primary Role: Customer Experience
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