Persona Survey results

[Alan Bell]

The results of the survey are now in, we had a fantastic response and we
have 26 really great detailed replies. The next step is to group these
roughly by impairment then use the replies as an inspiration to write up
descriptions of realistic but fictional characters that can be used by
developers and user experience designers to ensure that Ubuntu is built
for these characters.

For a bit of background on design personas in general and how they are
used here is a description of how IBM use them
http://www-01.ibm.com/software/ucd/gallery/software.html

Canonical have a set of personas already, one of them has a visual
impairment, we want to build a small set of personas with a range of
accessibility needs and write them up to the same standard of quality as
the existing Canonical documents so they can be fed into the design team.

If you would like to help in the process of getting from survey
responses to personas then please email myself or Penelope Stowe and we
will send you a copy of the spreadsheet with all the responses and just
names and email addresses removed. We decided at the meeting last night
that we would share the spreadsheet with anyone on the list who asks for
it, but we won't publish it on the internet or post it to the list in
it's raw form.

Alan.