The Inmates Are Running the Asylum¶
Cooper, A. (1999). The Inmates Are Running the Asylum: Why High-Tech Products Drive Us Crazy and How to Restore the Sanity. Sams Publishing.
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Primes¶
- Persona
- Human-computer interaction and product design. User personas drive interface and feature decisions; mock-ups are tested against a small persona set rather than against an abstract "everyone."
This sourceIntroduces personas as named, concrete composite users for goal-directed interaction design and warns against designing for oneself (the 'elastic user').
- Human-computer interaction and product design. User personas drive interface and feature decisions; mock-ups are tested against a small persona set rather than against an abstract "everyone."
Domain-specific¶
- Implied Reader
- In interaction design, Alan Cooper's "personas" — introduced in The Inmates Are Running the Asylum (1998) — operationalize the same move for software
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- In interaction design, Alan Cooper's "personas" — introduced in The Inmates Are Running the Asylum (1998) — operationalize the same move for software
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