Implications for Designing with Young Apprentices: Methods and Personas

The involvement of teenagers in the design process of Digital Media requires appropriate methods and personas. In order to call more attention on the target group of teenagers, who are in the beginning of their professional life, this paper proposes a new persona. We present a new method approach to involve teenaged apprentices in the design process of Digital Media. The method combines dot voting, scribbling and paper prototyping for engaging teenagers in social network design. The approach was iteratively developed and applied in workshops with the target group. Author