To make authentic personas, consider how your user is feeling

Make sure emotional and behavioral context is not lost in your personas

Kai Wong
UX Collective
Published in
5 min readMar 10, 2022

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The same woman in a grey t-shirt making different types of emotional faces in 25 different boxes. These range from happy, surprised, shocked, all the way to frustrated and angry.
Photo by Andrea Piacquadio from Pexels

“How do you think our users feel, after they’ve been told they have cancer?” My mentor gave me an emotional gut-punch right after rejecting my personas. “Because that’s probably why many of our users are coming to this application.”

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