Personas
On inclusive personas and inclusive user research | CSS-Tricks
I’m inclined to take a few notes on Eric Bailey’s grand post about the use of inclusive personas in user research. As someone who has been in roles that have both used and created user personas, there’s so much in here What’s the big deal, right? We’re often taught and encouraged to think about users…
Personas Are Critical For AI search
Boost your skills with Growth Memo’s weekly expert insights. Subscribe for free! Here’s what I’m covering this week: How to build user personas for SEO from data you already have on hand. You can’t treat personas as a “brand exercise” anymore. In the AI-search era, prompts don’t just tell you what users want; they reveal…
Virtual Personas for Language Models via an Anthology of Backstories
We introduce Anthology, a method for conditioning LLMs to representative, consistent, and diverse virtual personas by generating and utilizing naturalistic backstories with rich details of individual values and experience. What does it mean for large language models (LLMs) to be trained on massive text corpora, collectively produced by millions and billions of distinctive human authors?…