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persona

persona

16 5.4
A fictional character that represents a typical user to guide product design
  • noun
  • /pərˈsoʊnə/
  • Jargon
translation icon : persona
  • To guide product design, we developed several user personas based on customer feedback.
  • social persona
  • criminal persona
  • lyric persona

And so let's actually talk about how those personas are created.

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Examples

  • What character or persona will be most effective in serving your purpose and your audience?

    Academic text (2013)
  • So a big part of her trick was crafting a story and a persona that worked well with her target investor audience.

  • I just took his persona and put it in words that everybody could understand.

  • And from that moment on, I created a persona.

  • I teach people how to create a new persona.

  • And for this one, I'm creating a whole new persona.

  • Then I created a persona online that was a kind of aspirational self.

  • Each of us still plays with personas now and then.

    Fiction book (1994)
  • And so let's actually talk about how those personas are created.

  • NBC Digital is using the personas both to develop new content and to pitch advertisers.

    Blog text (12)

Compounds

11 9.4

A person who is not welcome in a place, often for official reasons

gaming persona
  • Texting
5.7

A character a person plays as in video games that is different from their real life

9.9

A public image that challenges usual ideas about being a man or a woman

9.9

A strong confident woman who behaves boldly

persona grata
  • Formal
9.0

A person welcomed by a host country, usually a diplomat

How Detailed

persona
  • Jargon
16 5.4
profile
  • Literature
243 3.4

Surface Forms

persona singular
personas plural

Etymology

Persona comes from the Latin persona meaning 'mask' or 'person', so in marketing a persona is a made-up person or character who stands for a typical user. Teams use this 'mask' or character to help design products and messages for real customers.