ENGL 8122  ※  User-Experience Research & Writitng

Sortable and Hidable List with Undo

A Persona Experiment

Although not the point of this screen, it is an example of the card sort technique, where you ask users to sort and organize in order to gain insight into how they think. If you want the JavaScript that runs it, reveal the source code and copy and paste. Thanks ChatGPT.

Personas are data-based. One kind of data might be core values. Values, along with attitudes, personality traits, interests and hobbies, and lifestyle, are collectively known as psychographic information. Typically the list of core values would be derived from those relevant to the product you are designing. But the experiment below takes a much wider dataset.

Below is a list of common values. Thanks to ChatGPT, you can hide a value by clicking on it. You can also sort the values hierarchically.

  1. Contemplate each word in the list. Then reread the list and prune it by clicking on each word that IS NOT one of your top 10 personal values. Delete intentionally. You can unhide by clicking the "Undo Hide" button at the bottom of the list. If you delete 4 items but decide you want item two back, you will need to click undelete three times, to return 4 and then 3 and then 2, then delete 3 and 4 again.
  2. When you have 10, drag and drop them in order from most to least important.
  3. Then copy that list into your computer's memory. Open an AI and ask it to, "build a persona for a [job title here or role] out of the following characteristics presented in order of most important to least important: [paste your list here]"
  4. What do you make of the results? Blog the persona that comes back along with your assessment.
    Keep in mind that core-values is just one part of pscyhographic information, which itself is just one part a persona profile.

We could add your final list to a database and then generate an aggrigate to use as part of an 8122 persona. We won't, but we could.

Click to Hide; Drag to Sort