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User Profiles Worksheet

Use this sample template to begin identifying your user types. How much do you know about them? Expand your criteria as needed.

Choose an important user task on your website or app. Account for every step in your customer's experience. What do you see?

Persona template, Yale University
A simple starter template for user personas
Usability Test Plan Dashboard by David Travis
A visual layout for capturing high-level testing goals

Designers, (Re)define Success First by Lennart Overkamp, May 12, 2022
An elegant explanation of ethics in user experience design
Digital Ethics Online and Off by Luciano Floridi, American Scientist, July - August 2021
"To navigate the digital world ethically, we must build a framework for weighing privacy, innovation, human rights, discrimination, and more."

UX Project Checklist by Andrea Soverini
A visual illustration of UX tools
Digital Services Playbook
A combination of strategies and tactics for digital government communications

Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (US)
The law requiring Federal agencies to make their electronic and information technology (EIT) accessible to people with disabilities
The Science of Usability Testing
by Jean E. Fox, 2015 Federal Committee on Statistical Methodology (FCSM) Research Conference; a lucid compilation of foundational usability studies.
ISO 9241-11:2018 Ergonomics of human-system interaction — Part 11: Usability: Definitions and concepts, International Organization for Standardization, March 2018
International definition of usability.
Digital.gov, United States Federal Guidelines for Digital Communication
An official website of the U.S. General Services Administration.
Checklist of Requirements for Federal Websites and Digital Services, United States General Services Administration
How To Test Websites for Accessibility
Video on selecting accessibility checkers, 14:00

Putting Personas to Work in UX Design: What They Are and Why They’re Important by Patrick Faller, Adobe
High-level explanation of personas and their use.
Task analysis
Purpose and definition of task analysis, one of the most important and least-understood principles of usability and user experience design, first published by usability.gov in 2003.
"How Little Do Users Read?" by Jakob Nielsen, May 5, 2008
The seminal, research-based article revealed that users read less than 28% of the words on a screen.
A Guide to Using User-Experience Research Methods, by Kelley Gordon and Christian Rohrer, August 21, 2022
Excellent overview of UX methods from the world's most respected UX research group.

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