User Representations¶
Akrich, M. (1995). User Representations: Practices, Methods and Sociology. Managing Technology in Society: The Approach of Constructive Technology Assessment.
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- Persona
- Naming the persona move surfaces a specific cognitive cheat that reasoners otherwise smuggle in unmarked: they reason about some imagined user without naming who that user is, and the imagined user almost always resembles the reasoner — the I-methodology failure, in which a designer unconsciously designs for themselves.
This sourceAnalyzes the 'I-methodology' in which designers project themselves as the user.
- Naming the persona move surfaces a specific cognitive cheat that reasoners otherwise smuggle in unmarked: they reason about some imagined user without naming who that user is, and the imagined user almost always resembles the reasoner — the I-methodology failure, in which a designer unconsciously designs for themselves.
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