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Persona Best Practices Of Interactive Agencies

Forrester Applies Its Evaluation Methodology To Personas Provided By 18 Large Interactive Agencies

Vidya L. Drego
 and  two contributors
Aug 27, 2009

Summary

Forrester applied its persona evaluation criteria to reference personas provided by 18 interactive agencies for the recent Forrester Wave™. Most of the personas showed some room for improvement, with problems running the gamut in both type and severity. But our evaluations also revealed a number of best practices, including Whittmanhart's personal scorecard, Molecular's easy-to-read posters, and Critical Mass' superior production quality. To get the most value out of persona projects, customer experience professionals should work with agencies to perform cost-effective ethnographic research, ensure that design recommendations stay out of persona documents, and provide insights into multichannel behaviors.

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