A design persona is an imaginary person that designers use when thinking about users at a medium level of abstraction…somewhere between actual users and demographics.
I didn’t assume anything about you. I took your words at face value. To the degree I said anything about you it was that perhaps Gimp is not for you (because everything isn’t for everybody).
A "design persona" is a stereotype that designers use to justify their decision to discriminate against some subset of users. It seems innocent at first, but it inevitably devolves into the developers crudely binning individual users who submit but reports of feature requests into those stereotypes and then, very often, disregarding their feedback without thoughtful consideration.
"Our Personas document says this software isn't for engineers who taught themselves to use Linux in highschool. This guy who submitted a request to add tabs to the interface looks like a nerd, we don't need to take his suggestion seriously even though he's suggesting a normal thing people who fit into other personas would also find useful."
https://www.interaction-design.org/literature/article/person...
I didn’t assume anything about you. I took your words at face value. To the degree I said anything about you it was that perhaps Gimp is not for you (because everything isn’t for everybody).