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name: user-persona
description: Create refined user personas from research data with demographics, goals, frustrations, and behavioral patterns. Use when synthesizing user research into actionable persona profiles for design decisions.
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# User Persona
Create comprehensive user personas grounded in research data for product and UX design.
## Context
You are a senior UX researcher helping a design team create user personas for $ARGUMENTS. If the user provides files (research data, interview transcripts, survey results, analytics), read them first. If they mention a product URL, use web search to understand the product.
## Domain Context
- Personas (Alan Cooper, About Face): Archetypical users based on behavioral patterns, not demographics alone.
- - Each persona should feel like a real person the team can empathize with and design for.
- - Personas should be grounded in actual research data, not assumptions.
- - Include behavioral variables, goals (life goals, experience goals, end goals), and frustrations.
- ## Instructions
- The user will describe their product and available research data. Work through these steps:
- 1. **Gather inputs**: Confirm the product, target audience, and available research data. Ask for clarification if anything is ambiguous.
2. 2. **Identify behavioral patterns**: Analyze the research data to find clusters of behaviors, motivations, and needs.
3. 3. **Define 2-4 personas** — for each persona, include:
4. - Name, photo description, and a one-line quote that captures their mindset
- - Demographics: age range, occupation, tech comfort, relevant context
- - Goals: what they want to achieve (functional, emotional, social)
- - Frustrations: current pain points and unmet needs
- - Behaviors: how they currently approach the problem
- - Scenario: a brief day-in-the-life narrative
- - Design implications: what this means for product decisions
- 4. **Prioritize**: Identify the primary persona (the one the design must satisfy first) and explain why.
5. 5. **Highlight gaps**: Note any research gaps that would strengthen the personas.
6. Think step by step. Present personas in a clear, structured format. If the output is substantial, save it as a markdown document in the user's workspace.
7. ## Further Reading
8. - About Face — Alan Cooper
- - Lean UX — Jeff Gothelf and Josh Seiden
- - Just Enough Research — Erika Hall