This is a great podcast episode. I’ve once heard that in gym and I was like: yes! This is how to build „empathy“ or a feeling of an „ally“ who must solve a problem and you want to help her to do that.
„[…] Then, when we go in-home and study these users, we have this process, which is pretty fun, where we try and think of the user as a character. We put together something that we call a user profile/character. It’s a prompt where we would learn about the users and then create this character where, kind of like how writers would think of a character for their story, a user wants something, but they can’t get it. There’s something that’s blocking them, whether it’s a technical thing, environmental, or social. Then, now you have a user, which we would call a character, and we’d give them a name. They want something that they can’t get. These studies, we would bring the designers and the engineers with us. Data scientists, QA people, everybody would come and really understand this character. We would run a two-day workshop where the product is actually one where everybody on this team will take that character and map out a story about how we can take this user, apply what Wink has in terms of technical capabilities to get them all the way around to achieving what they want. That’s what we create as a product vision. Usually, we think of“ it as: What can Wink do in the next two years to help this user achieve that problem?“
Listen here: https://uie.fm/shows/uie/narrative-virality-changing-course-from-a-simple-story
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