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Value-led personas: a methodology to promote sustainable user-centered design?

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Value-led personas: a methodology to promote sustainable user-centered design? / Larner, Justin.
2014.

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Larner, J 2014, 'Value-led personas: a methodology to promote sustainable user-centered design?'. <http://nordichi2014.appaholiclabs.com/details_paper.php?id=6867104>

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Larner, J. (2014). Value-led personas: a methodology to promote sustainable user-centered design?. http://nordichi2014.appaholiclabs.com/details_paper.php?id=6867104

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Larner J. Value-led personas: a methodology to promote sustainable user-centered design?. 2014.

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Larner, Justin. / Value-led personas : a methodology to promote sustainable user-centered design?. 4 p.

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title = "Value-led personas: a methodology to promote sustainable user-centered design?",
abstract = "This paper explores how values can be the focus in user-centered design through the use of value-led personas. Its starting point was exploring value-driven alternative models for micro-business based on the principles of open source.The research documented in this paper is a participatory design process with two emergent micro-businesses as co-researchers. The stakeholders of each micro-business were presented as value-led personas, representing a deepunderstanding of their values and beliefs gained from ethnographic data. In this project, the use of value-led personas effectively communicated the core values of each micro-business and enabled participants to visualize how stakeholders would interact with the organization. Value-led personas thus have the potential to be an effective communication technique in user-centered design that canlead to purposeful action.",
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