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User Personas: Build Strong, Research-Backed Personas

User Personas: Build Strong, Research-Backed Personas

A practical course that teaches research-first approaches to crafting clear, useful user personas that your team will actually use. Includes exercises, templates, and a walkthrough of the UserPersonaCreator tool.

Welcome! This course focuses on creating personas that are concise, evidence-driven, and actionable—so your team can use them to prioritize product decisions, craft features, and align stakeholders.

We’ll cover research approaches, clustering and synthesis techniques, what to include in a persona profile, how to visually structure a persona, and how to test & validate them over time.

Along the way you’ll get practical exercises and a mini case study to practice creating and applying personas.

Try the interactive User Persona Creator

Prototype personas and export them as JSON or images. Use it to build repeatable persona artifacts and save time during workshops.