Different types of users and personas:

In this post, we will introduce users’ persona’s that we will use in our scenario. We have considered that our users will be adults with multicultural and have also chosen users who fit different positions of Rogers adoption curve (as in lecture on Social Enterprise and are different ‘types of users.

Persona1: Ouh

23 years old young man from Thailand, who recently came as a postgraduate student to Southampton. He is a fan of tennis and soccer, likes to watch and practice sports

Type of user: sports lover who is willing to meet other people who share the love of the game and exercise with him. It is an opportunity to join the new community.

Persona2: Maria

37 years old lady who lives and work in Southampton as a nurse in the general hospital and who works for 6 days a week, does not have the time to socialize. She was diagnosed with high cholesterol level and was advised to exercise regularly which clashes with her shift type of work.

Type of User: Browsers. As she kept browsing sports activities and checking their dates and times, for casual commitment to play and join sports activities.

Persona3: Lisa

26 an interior designer and a postgraduate student who is so social, and love to keep fit, energetic, have many connections and active user of various social networks. She has been invited to Sosport. Now she loves it, filtering sports events, joining a lot of different sports activities, adds friends, rate events and love to share photos and videos with others.

Type of User: Social user making friends and sharing is so important. As having a good rating score

Persona4: John

33 years old professional sporty person, who travels a lot and can not commit to a certain place or people to practice and exercise. He feels that he is responsible to grow the culture of exercising to keep healthy and live happier.

Type of user: a sophisticated user who knows what he wants. He joins sports events that suit his tight schedule and create public sports events to raise awareness and educate as well create private sports event with his coach or friends to practice. He uses most of the functions available in the application.