Our Users
When co-creating with our Decentralized Archivist Communities (DACs), OpenArchive uses a deliberately slow and in-depth human rights centered research and design methodology to threat-model and create personas in order to map out the use cases and ecosystem. Through this co-research, we are able to identify key pain points and threats these communities face and incorporate this research into building responsive, usable tools to help mitigate harm and technological challenges.
During this process, we create realistic personas based on the actual people we work with in our partner communities. "User personas are [anonymized] archetypical users whose goals and characteristics represent the needs of a larger group of users" (Patrick Faller). Personas can help remind you of real-world constraints, and also help you document and build up necessary internal information about why you’re building something, and the needs of who you’re building with.
See below for some examples of our personas.
Personas
The following profiles represent potential Save users based on our needs assessment research with communities in the Latin America region.
Elena
Lawyer
Maribel
Researcher
Oscar
Project Manager
Jaime
Program Investigator
Juanita
Researcher
Miguel
Project Manager
Arazu
Project Manager at human rights org
Mohamed
Independent journalist and human rights defender in Iraq
Noor
Researcher in Iraq
Diego
Investigation Coordinator
Gabriela
Documentary Photographer
Isabella
Freelance reporter and editor
Amal
Investigator at a local Sudanese human rights organization
Leila
Investigative Journalist with a local Sudanese media organization
Nasser
Media Project Manager at a local Sudanese media organization
Ivan
Project Coordinator at a Ukrainian Human Rights Group
Nadia
Documenter at a Ukrainian NGO partner organization
Oleksandra
Documenter and database manager at a Ukrainian NGO
Anna
Researcher at a human rights organization
In the past, I would have transferred data to my laptop and uploaded it from there, but I don't do that anymore. I only upload media from my mobile device now.
Darius
Freelance Videographer at a human rights organization
I don’t always capture media from professional cameras. I use my iPhone when I need to be discreet.
Kai
Archivist at a human rights organization
Social media and messaging apps compress audio and video before upload, which is not an option for our work.
