The Persona Core Poster – a service design tool

Please note: this is my original blog from the year 2011.

I have developed more human-centred templates and a fresh approach called Music Thinking. You will also find the book The Power of Music Thinking with the explanation of aspirational Persona vs Reality Persona and Target Group vs Quick Profile.

Download The Persona Core Poster

 Because the Persona Core poster was downloaded more than 100.000 times on this blog, I also have included it on the NEW Persona-Workshop.com website, full of information.


For years I am working with personas from aspirational to reality.

Most of the time, I follow the same basic questions and approaches while developing the personas.

Finally, I found time to design a poster that you can use in workshops and I hope you like it. I post the A3 template here as a PDF under the creative commons licence, this means you can print it, use it and even change it, just name the source.
Tip: start with behaviour and end with the quote!

If you like it drop me a note and share it with your friends or client.

On a regular basis, I am also conducting workshops in the Netherlands or Germany.

Download The Persona Core Poster

The Persona Core Poster template

Direct link to the … more information on persona page on The Persona Workshop website.
Check it out, there is a lot of information!

The Persona Workshop

The Persona Workshop

More information on Data Storytelling with Personas via the Creative Companion websiteworkshop:

More posts on persona thinking:
Personas and female mindstyles
Persona Experience in the Museum – Playing with your Expectations
Persona Experience in the Museum – Playing with your Expectations

120 responses to “The Persona Core Poster – a service design tool

  1. Here a link to a presentation I did about personas and target groups for webredacteuren , June 2011 Utrecht, Netherlands

    [dutch]
    http://www.webredacteuren.com/2011/07/verslag-kennissessie-doelgroepen-persona/

  2. I told my students in graphical design and communication about you template on my course website: http://www.ida.liu.se/~TDDC64/index.sv.shtml

  3. Ha Christof, just what I need to help my students, at hr.nl CMD, build their person’s…

  4. Hi Edwin,
    nice, glad that students learn the possibilities and advantages of persona thinking.

    have fun!

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  27. I would like to translate this into Spanish. Do you have an .svg format file?

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