Personas help us focus and make decisions about who we're designing for, but they often have blind spots built right in: they represent sanitised...
Eric A. Meyer is an internationally-recognized author, speaker, blogger, and sometime teacher and consultant. He is currently technical lead at Rebecca’s Gift and co-founder of An Event Apart with Jeffrey Zeldman. In his most recent book, Design for Real Life, Eric and his co-author Sara Wachter-Boettcher teach how to design with not just empathy, but compassion. He’s been working on the Web since 1993 and still finds it deeply compelling.
Personas help us focus and make decisions about who we're designing for, but they often have blind spots built right in: they represent sanitised...