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July 31, 2003
Personas
Setting the Stage for Building Usable Information Sites
What Are Personas?
- Personas are hypothetical archetypes, or "stand-ins" for actual users that drive the decision making for interface design projects.
- Personas are not real people, but they represent real people throughout the design process.
- Personas are not "made up"; they are discovered as a by-product of the investigative process.
- Although personas are imaginary, they are defined with significant rigor and precision.
- Names and personal details are made up for personas to make them more realistic.
- Personas are defined by their goals.
- Interfaces are built to satisfy personas' needs and goals.
July 11, 2003
OpenGroupware
OpenGroupware.org provides document sharing capabilities for OpenOffice.org documents that will allow users of Microsoft Outlook, Ximian Evolution, Mozilla Calendar, OpenOffice.org's Glow (its Groupware Project's client product), Apple's iCal and other standards-based groupware clients to collaborate. The software will allow users to share calendar, address book and email information, communicate through instant messaging, share folders, exchange documents, track changes, share a whiteboard, and browse the Web -- all at the same time.
"Just to be perfectly clear, this is an MS Exchange replacement," said Gary Federick, leader of the OpenOffice.org Groupware Project. "OGo is important because it's the missing link in the open source software stack. It's the end of a decade-long effort to map all the key infrastructure and standard desktop applications to free software. OGo offers users a free solution for collaboration and document management that, despite being free of charge, will far surpass the quality and level of collaboration found on Windows through integration of MS Office, Exchange Server and Sharepoint. Today marks the completion of the 'Open Stack.'"
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