Experience Design Factors
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Persona Generator

A randomly-generated place, time, and person.

The persona generator creates a random persona. It has a wide range of uses. Educators can use it to generate content for a project or assignment randomly.

Caution: these are randomly generated so some factors may contradict. Ignore the factors that don’t make sense.

Persona

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The Scene

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Location

ContextCharacteristic Level
a busy outdoor market on a sunny day

A place and time where an experience design scene takes place.

Links to the XD Factors site.

Las Vegas, NV
1985

Characteristics

6′ 3″ (1.9 meters) Tall
19 Years Old
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Sex

PeopleCharacteristic Level
woman and man looking at camera

A person's biological attributes, including chromosomes, hormone levels, and reproductive/sexual anatomy, which can be assigned at birth or modified through medical interventions.

Links to the XD Factors site.

female

Dynamic Factors

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Health Status

PeopleDynamic Level
man lying on couch with blanket over head sick

A person's physical and mental condition.

Links to the XD Factors site.

Asthma
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Habits

PeopleDynamic Level
woman driving while talking on phone

People's behavioral tendencies.

Links to the XD Factors site.

chews fingernails
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Movements

PeopleDynamic Level

The ways people physically move their bodies.

Links to the XD Factors site.

Fiddles a lot
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Relationships

PeopleDynamic Level
man and woman holding each other and a dog

Ways people are connected to others.

Links to the XD Factors site.

has 8 siblings
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Role

PeopleDynamic Level
grandmother with grandchild

The functions a person plays in different situations.

Links to the XD Factors site.

Learner
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Gender Expression

PeopleDynamic Level
two people presenting as male putting on makeup in a mirror

The outward display of an individual's gender identity through behaviors, clothing, hairstyles, voice, and other forms of presentation.

Links to the XD Factors site.

gender neutral

Complex Factors

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Gender Identity

PeopleComplex Level
a group of black and white people on a beach smiling in a group

A person's sense of their own gender.

Links to the XD Factors site.

transgender
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Personality

PeopleComplex Level
person with bag over head and grapefruits for eyes

A person's distinctive character.

Links to the XD Factors site.

Fearful
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Social Class

PeopleComplex Level
man sitting in trailer home

A classification based on a person's socio-economic status, including factors such as income, education, and occupation.

Links to the XD Factors site.

working class
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Sexual Orientation

PeopleComplex Level
man and woman hugging

Emotional and/or romantic attraction to another person.

Links to the XD Factors site.

heterosexual
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Knowledge

PeopleComplex Level
a woman standing in a library with lightbulbs, glowing orbs, and other fantastic things swirling around her head

Facts, information, experiences, and insights a person has acquired.

Links to the XD Factors site.

Genealogy
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Race

PeopleComplex Level
portrait of a mixed-race woman

A person's race, based on physical characteristics and influenced by social and historical contexts.

Links to the XD Factors site.

American Indian
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Abilities

PeopleComplex Level
person holding crochet

Competence or skill to complete an activity.

Links to the XD Factors site.

expert car mechanic

Underlying Factors

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Language

PeopleUnderlying Level
two white women using sign language to have a conversation with one another

The words, gestures, and symbols a person uses to communicate and express thoughts and emotions.

Links to the XD Factors site.

Friendly and loose
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Values

PeopleUnderlying Level
women lighting candles

Fundamental beliefs about what is desirable and ideal.

Links to the XD Factors site.

buying local
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Culture

PeopleUnderlying Level
three older adults playing guitars

Patterns of behavior that unify a people group.

Links to the XD Factors site.

Disneyphile

Core Factors

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Self-Concept

PeopleCore Level
silhouette of a woman

People's collected beliefs about themselves.

Links to the XD Factors site.

Feel special
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Worldview

PeopleCore Level
a man's silhouette looking out on a city in the distance

How a person conceives the overall "tone" of the world.

Links to the XD Factors site.

everyone is out to get me

Dennis Cheatham

Associate Professor, Communication Design

Miami University

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