Title: Persona
Context: Personas not as abstractions but as real people. Beautiful. But the guy with the knife and hand grenade is a bit freaky if you ask me.
Synopsis: We create personas to help us put the user at the center of the design process. But it is sometimes easy to forget that the real users are real people. Individuals. With their own personalities, goals, desires and – apparently – stuff. While it is comforting to see lots of similarities across people’s detritus (i.e. Lots of cell phones and keys) it’s the more personal items that hold my interest. Strip of raw bacon anyone?
Best Bit(s): “In Persona, his deliciously voyeuristic, fashion forward portraits, Jason Travis snaps hipster Atlantans along with the contents of their messenger bags, backpacks and clutches to determine ‘what they deem important in their lives.’ You are what you schlep.”
via flickr.com
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