Interaction Persona

Understand the user state and context at the moment of the interaction

Interactions personas help to understand and empathise with the user’s mental state and understand the context in which the user interacts with a product or a service.

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Why use the interaction persona

While persona and empathy maps describe a general state of the user, they lack details in the touchpoints, when the interaction between the users and the product or services. Interaction personas focus instead on the touchpoints and the user’s mental state and context in these specific moments, pinpointing crucial elements that could help to improve the product.

Interaction personas take the knowledge of cognitive and behavioural psychology and focus on seven elements: emotional state, environment, willpower and mental energy, attention span, touchpoints, moment visualisation, and inclusion.

When to use it

Starting from the data gathered in user interviews and primary research, you should start to build the interaction personas analysing the entire journey of the user in a given product or service.

Identify the touch points and use the research data to define every single kind of user and context that can happen in every single interaction with a touch point.

Who is it useful for

Interaction personas could be useful to Managers, Designers and Stakeholders

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About the author

Hi, I'm Mattia – experience designer and strategist researching human behaviours, emerging technologies, and how they can shape our future.

I'm researching human interactions and what meaningful interaction means to us.

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