Smart Personas Documentation

AI-powered user personas that validate and improve your specifications

What Are Smart Personas

Smart Personas are AI-powered virtual users that understand your product domain and can critique specifications from a user perspective. Unlike static persona profiles, these personas can engage in conversations to uncover requirements and edge cases you might miss.

How Personas Improve Specifications

Requirements Discovery

Personas help uncover hidden requirements like user workflows, accessibility needs, performance expectations, and integration requirements.

Specification Validation

Personas critique specifications for missing scenarios, unclear criteria, and usability issues.

Interview Modes

Exploration Mode

Discover unknown requirements and edge cases

Use when starting with rough ideas to uncover user pain points, workflows, and constraints.

Validation Mode

Validate and refine specific requirements

Use when you have specific features to validate, need prioritization, or want feedback on proposed solutions.

Best Practices

Effective Persona Interviews

Do These

Ask open-ended questions about workflows
Probe for specific pain points and frustrations
Challenge assumptions with "what if" scenarios
Ask about error conditions and edge cases

Avoid These

Leading questions that suggest answers
Technical jargon without explanation
Focusing only on happy path scenarios
Ignoring accessibility and constraints

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