Personas


Persona 1


Name: Kevin Smith
Education: Newcastle University, Studying Sports Science.
Age: 20
Location: Newcastle
Occupation: Student
Interests: General fitness – He wants to keep a high level of fitness as he has been training consistently for years
Sports extra curriculum – Attends various sports extra curriculum both within and outside of the university, so he is usually quite busy. Part of the rugby society.
Goals/Desires: Get a degree, Kevin doesn’t want to miss his lectures as he wants to get a good degree and doesn’t want to fall behind, the app will be able to help Kevin balance his University work as well as looking after his body and personal heath.
Become a personal trainer, after university Kevin wants to become a personal trainer, the app will be useful for him as it will help him learn about exercise routines and dietary plans from what is suggested by the app. It would also help him improve his ability to timetable sessions more efficiently.
Follow a better diet, Kevin wants to start eating healthier as it will help him further improve his levels of fitness. The app suggests diet plans based on a person’s current physique, with a plan to follow he will be able to achieve a better diet.
Concerns: Trying to balance a high level of fitness, with getting a good degree, he is worried that he doesn’t have the time to both finish his degree to the highest level and maintain his the body he has worked hard to get.


Persona 2

Name: Clement Portier
Education: Newcastle University, Studying Mechanical Engineering
Age: 23
Location: Newcastle
Occupation: International Student
Interests: Video Games – Plays online video games with his friends back home frequently, enjoys keeping in touch and competing with his friends.
Partying – He enjoys going to parties and drinks quite frequently, leading to him putting on large amounts of weight.
Travelling – Regularly goes backpacking around Europe and loves to experience new places and hasn’t gone in a while due to his injury.
Football – Enjoys football but has only been able to watch for the last few years due to a knee injury he picked up last year. Hoping the app can help him be able to play again soon.
Goals/Desires: He is passionate about football, however due to injury he has not played for a few years, he hopes to get back to where he was prior to his injury so that he can join a team again.
Recover lost muscle mass in his leg after his injury, wants to prevent another injury.
Lose weight that he has gained from being bed bound due to his injury.
Concerns: Worried that the app will not take into account his injury and will lead him to re-injuring himself.

 From this we are going to compare the results of our user research to see if the people who would be interested in the app are like how we pictured them to be or if it is a different group of people who are interested in the app.

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