CIT 230: Week 3 WinderWeather.com

Target Audience

Generally, our audience will be fishermen, visitors, and locals that are interested in the weather and local news.

Personas

Persona #1
Persona Description Local Fisherman
Name John Boat
Purpose Looking for a weather report for the next 5 days
Demographics Age: 42 Married Father of 3 Girls Some College Apple Bigot
Goals To go fishing when wife and children are busy and not noticing his disappearance
Equipment Mobile Phone (iPhone), Tablet (iPad), Laptop (Mac with Firefox Browser)

Persona #2
Persona Description Visitor passing through – Just curious
Name Penny Pincher
Purpose Looking for a 1 day forecast
Demographics Age: 25 Married No Children College Graduate Cognizant of husbands expensive Mac habit thus whatever is cheapest
Goals Just to read about the local news and get the weather for tomorrow
Equipment Mobile Phone (Android), Laptop (Windows 7 with Chrome Browser)

Scenarios

  1. Persona 1
    1. What is the weather like today? Can I sneak away and drop my line?
    2. What is the 3 / 5 / 7-day forecast? My wife is out with the kids at school, can I get away in the next 3 days?
    3. What are the local new stories? My wife told me that someone was found floating in the river! Did they find my hole?
  2. Persona 2
    1. When we go through the area, will it be snowing again! I dislike snow.
    2. The kids want to have lunch at a park, will we need coats, rain gear, or maybe some sunscreen?