Re:Gitlab Personas
by kube-system on Thursday January 19, 2023 @02:14AM
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I don’t understand why people are taking these so personally. The point of them is to be an example of someone. They are characters, in a story.
Re:Gitlab Personas
by vintermann on Thursday January 19, 2023 @02:57AM
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Because they are stereotypes. And we all have negative experiences being stereotyped, because inevitably very few people fit the stereotype on all points.
Re:Gitlab Personas
by kube-system on Thursday January 19, 2023 @02:05PM
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No, user personas have names because they represent an individual. Not all software developers are Sasha, but Sasha is Sasha.
Re:Gitlab Personas
by naijaboiler on Thursday January 19, 2023 @08:55PM
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Nobody fits stereotypes on all fronts. Nobody is perfectly average, but that's not the point of personas.
For me it is being reduced to "Sasha (Software Developer)", she does not seem quite like me and I dont like to be categorized like that..
I understand why this is useful to gitlab, but from the external point of view it seems strange to be talked about in this way. Its almost as seeing the internal discussion of how to target you with ads.
But at the end of the day pretty much standard practise and is nothing more than an elaborate answer to "who uses our products and why." So kudos to gitlab to being open about it.