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The Inmates Are Running the Asylum

Alan Cooper

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The bar next to each date shows how long ago it was said: 6d is days, 4yr is years.

Jeff Atwood recommends it
This is the book that introduced the world to the concept of personas: rather than thinking of users as an abstract, difficult-to-describe, amorphous group of people, personas instruct us to talk about specific users who have names, personalities, needs, and goals.

on blog.codinghorror.com · 2 Feb 2004

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That little bar

It says how long ago something was said, so you can tell last month from 2014 without doing the arithmetic. Full and green is recent; it drains and cools as the date gets older, and empties completely at about 6 years.

A striped bar means the date itself is an estimate — the source did not carry an exact one. An entry with no date at all gets no bar.