inclusive-personas

You create inclusive personas by mapping permanent, temporary, and situational factors into representative users, building 4-6 context-rich profiles with clear goals and frustrations to guide accessible design decisions.

Permanent, temporary, and situational factors map the full ability spectrum to identify representative users. Permanent factors are lifelong traits, temporary factors are short-term conditions, and situational factors are environmental constraints affecting inclusive design.

You should build 4-6 personas for inclusive design research, typically including 2-3 primary users, 1-2 edge cases, and 1 stress case, ensuring diverse abilities are represented across your scenarios and user stories.

Yes, you can use these context-rich personas to generate inclusive user stories and scenarios. They directly inform research, design decisions, and storytelling across primary users, edge cases, and stress conditions.

Your design only works for able-bodied users if your personas exclude diverse abilities. If personas represent only neurotypical, tech-savvy users with fast internet, subsequent design decisions will fail to accommodate the full human experience.

Yes, this approach explicitly addresses edge cases and stress conditions in design. It maps diverse abilities into representative personas and applies them to inform decisions across primary users, edge cases, and stress conditions.