Creating persona documents with Smaply
We will use smaply.com, a great start-up created by a small team in Innsbruck, Austria.
Note
Microsoft Word and PowerPoint are more popular as a persona document creation tools, but Smaply makes the job easier and faster. Richard Caddick and Steve Cable have a good tutorial on creating personas using Word and PowerPoint in their book, Communicating the User Experience: A practical guide for creating useful UX documentation.
After signing-up, you need to create your first Smaply project by clicking where the arrow points (Create a project
):
Try to find a meaningful project title and paste the "Opportunity" in the DESCRIPTION
text area. We will use the same project throughout this chapter, not just for personas, so make sure that you create a project you will enjoy working on:
After the project is ready, we can invite additional users to it from the right side of the screen. On the bottom, we can create PERSONAS
, STAKEHOLDER MAPS
, and JOURNEY MAPS
. We will...