Upon reviewing the other group members' packet I was assigned the persona section. The persona's name is Samantha Sanders and she is your typical 22 year-old, part-time working, full-time student at Illinois State University. The page describing this Samantha persona includes basic information like where Samantha lives, what year she is in school, how old she is, and where she works. There is a section that goes into more details about her roommates living habits as well as her own. This particular section also discusses her plans for post-graduation from ISU, what some of her hobbies are during her spare time, where her priorities stand, and what she likes to do on the weekends. The most important section describing the persona, in my opinion, lists Samantha's "Typical Web Tasks". These include Facebook and other social networks, accessing ISU's iCampus for checking email, blackboard, and keeping up with school news, shopping and bidding for merchandise, reading news, checking weather forecast, check bank statements, and research for school work.
If I were to create this persona of Samantha Sanders myself I wouldn't have done too much differently. A few suggestions I have would be to "chunk" or organize the sections on the page a bit differently, add a few headers to some of the sections, and verify that Samantha doesn't have any disabilities or speaks any other languages besides than English that may affect the way she uses technology (computers; internet). There is a section that talks about Samantha's Typical Web Tasks, but I may have gone into more specifications about her typical "computer skills" as well.
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