Designing User Persona for a retail Bitcoin Mining company

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You're a UX designer for an online Bitcoin mining company that focus on retail distribution. The website you work on helps renters and buyers find miners, explore facilities, contact sales agents, and so on (

This is a young company and you are the first design hire. They have never done user research before. You need to get your bearings and understand the users better. You decide to perform some initial research on the different types of users the website has, and then present these findings to your teammates.

Good personas are built off of research, not assumptions. Perform some research with real people who are currently looking (or have looked in the past) for new miners to buy or rent. This can include things like 

See what personas emerge out of your research (one simple example would be a person who is trying to find a miner to rent). Pick one and put together a user persona for that type of user using the findings from your research.

 Create a second persona for another different type of user.

If you need help with this challenge, check out our hand-picked tutorial recommendations.

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When you finish the challenge, post your work including anonymized collected data and results on this thread! If you also share it on 

 on X! We'll keep an eye out and repost good examples on a regular basis.

 for creative minds, where you'll be able to get open and constructive feedback on your PoW. Ask anything in the 

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## Scenario
You're a UX designer for an online Bitcoin mining company that focus on retail distribution. The website you work on helps renters and buyers find miners, explore facilities, contact sales agents, and so on ([Compass](https://compassmining.io) and [River](https://river.com/mining) are the competitors).

This is a young company and you are the first design hire. They have never done user research before. You need to get your bearings and understand the users better. You decide to perform some initial research on the different types of users the website has, and then present these findings to your teammates.

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## Task
Good personas are built off of research, not assumptions. Perform some research with real people who are currently looking (or have looked in the past) for new miners to buy or rent. This can include things like [user interviews](###), [diary studies](###), or [surveys](###).

See what personas emerge out of your research (one simple example would be a person who is trying to find a miner to rent). Pick one and put together a user persona for that type of user using the findings from your research.

**Extra Credit:** Create a second persona for another different type of user.


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## Guides
If you need help with this challenge, check out our hand-picked tutorial recommendations.

- **Bitcoin user personas** 
on [Bitcoin.Design/guide](https://bitcoin.design/guide/designing-products/user-personas/#:~:text=persona)

- **Fixing User Personas**
on [uxtools.co](https://uxtools.co/blog/fixing-user-personas/)

- **A 5 Step Framework for Building Better Personas**
on [dscout.com](https://dscout.com/people-nerds/designing-better-personas)

- **Personas Make Users Memorable for Product Team Members**
on [nngroup.com](https://www.nngroup.com/articles/persona/)

- **Tips for How to Create & Use Personas**
on [piped.video)](https://piped.video/7z7893qE_0w)

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## Tools
Not sure which tools to use? Try something new, go 💯% FOSS!

> **AppFlowy**
> by [AppFlowy.io](https://www.appflowy.io/)

> **Affine**
> by [Affine.pro](https://affine.pro)

> **PenPot**
> by [kaleidos](https://penpot.app/) 

> **FreePlane**
> by [freeplane team](https://docs.freeplane.org/getting-started/Distributions.html)


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## Share Your Results
When you finish the challenge, post your work including anonymized collected data and results on this thread! If you also share it on `nostr`, be sure to use the hashtag **#opendesigner** and tag [Design_r@iris.to](https://iris.to/Design_r) or [@Design__r](https://x.com/Design__r) on X! We'll keep an eye out and repost good examples on a regular basis.
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