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For a class that involves making a website more useable, I and other class members are being asked to redesign the student portion of my school’s website. I have been asked to cover creating a persona for two categories including professional workers returning to school.

A personas is somewhat like a profile but is composite formed by finding out about many potential real life users of the site.
Based what we find out about the average user we actually create a picture of what the person might look like, give the person(a) a name, age, a little bit about their interests, marital & family status, what brought them to the school, likes and dislikes (challenges) at school. What they look for in the community college’s website. What could the college offer the professional worker on the website that could be helpful. The persona is intended to make the designers keep the content revelant to real users by giving a point of reference.

I would appreciate it if you could tell me a bit about yourself (based on the above information) and your situation. I am looking to hear from people beween 26-35. I don’t need to know your name or location, You need not tell me what you look like. We are asked to pick random picture from google images cover that portion.

You may contact me by email if you don’t want to post on Yahoo answers.
If you want to know more about personas (this is a real web design tool). Here’s one example of a persona created by author by Alison J. Head the author of two books about usability. (Bear in mind I’m looking for something similar but student/professional worker oriented):

Greg is a local guy, 37 years old, and a busy senior loan manager for a bank in Santa Rosa, a city north of San Francisco in the heart of the wine country. He was recently divorced and has joint custody of his two young children. On weekends, Greg enjoys getting his kids out and away from the television, taking advantage of the nearby hiking trails, fishing, and canoeing available to them. When he isn’t exploring the region with his kids, he enjoys taking a girlfriend to one of the fine restaurants that are as plentiful as the vineyard patches that dot the gently rolling hills behind his home.

Greg has a certain penchant for collecting information about what is going on in the community. A self-described “constant-clipper,” Greg rips out and cubbyholes articles, events listings, and display ads. In his most recent stash were clips about Saturday’s ox roast in the Sonoma Plaza and the availability of fresh organic broccoli at the farmer’s market. But Greg’s stacks of clips only take him so far. The small shreds of torn paper often get lost or are soon outdated. He laments that there are so few sources for feeding his voracious appetite for information.

I was given the assignment the day before Thanksgiving and it’s due Monday so I can’t run around my school trying to find people who can help me. If anyone can suggest other websites to find out information about professionals workers attending community college please post a link. It can be any website.

I wish I could but the teacher wants verfiable references.