The Need for Formal Standards for Persona Creation

Personas are invaluable tools in content creation that help creators and editors better understand their target audiences. In the business world, personas are valuable tools that help marketers and executives better understand their target customers. In the user experience (UX) design world, personas are invaluable tools that help designers and developers better understand their target…… Continue reading The Need for Formal Standards for Persona Creation

Designing With Multiple Personas in Mind: Multi-Persona Design for Large Target Populations

There is a need for personas usage to shift from focusing on one persona at a time to Multi-Persona Design. In the context of global design and development using personas, the traditional approach of utilizing a limited set of personas, often 10 or fewer, is a widely accepted guideline. This ‘small persona’ mindset assumes a…… Continue reading Designing With Multiple Personas in Mind: Multi-Persona Design for Large Target Populations

StoryOptimizer – Leveraging AI for better cross platform social media content creation

If your organization does cross-platform posting (i.e., posts the same or similar content on multiple social media platforms). As part of our Acua system, we’ve developed a feature that takes a generic post and automatically optimizes it for 6 social media platforms. See below. We have already tested the feature in a 900-person user study,…… Continue reading StoryOptimizer – Leveraging AI for better cross platform social media content creation

Name2GAN Predict a name’s most likely demographics

Name2GAN is a service of Acua used to predict a name’s most likely demographics. “GAN” comes from Gender, Age, Nationality. Give it a try! Name2GAN ​Read more about the service! Jung, S.G., Salminen, J., and Jansen, B. J. (2021) All About the Name: Assigning Demographically Appropriate Names to Data-Driven Entities. 54th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System…… Continue reading Name2GAN Predict a name’s most likely demographics

Manual and Automatic Methods for User Needs Detection in Requirements Engineering: Key Concepts and Challenges

User needs inform designers and developers of essential functionalities for requirements engineering. In this work, we summarize key concepts and challenges relating to manual and automatic user needs detection methods. We discuss six challenges with manual and eight challenges with automated methods. A. Challenges of Manual Methods • A01: Limited sample sizes. • A02: Budgetary…… Continue reading Manual and Automatic Methods for User Needs Detection in Requirements Engineering: Key Concepts and Challenges