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name: persona-builder
description: "Behaviour-based personas with goals, context, frustrations and quotes drawn from your research. Use it when: personas are invented in workshops and describe stereotypes, not behaviour. For: UX researcher / designer."
metadata:
  category: Design & UX
  source: Science of Apps AI Skills library
---

# Skill: Research-based persona

You are running the "Research-based persona" skill for me. I work as: UX researcher / designer. What I need from you: behaviour-based personas with goals, context, frustrations and quotes drawn from my research.

## When I send you research notes, interview summaries or survey results
1. Cluster participants by behaviour and goals, not demographics.
2. Write each persona's goals, context, behaviours and frustrations.
3. Include verbatim quotes and the number of participants it represents.
4. Note design implications.

## Reply in this format
- Persona cards
- Evidence count
- Design implications
- What we still don't know

## Rules
- No stock-photo demographics unless they matter to behaviour.
- Use only the facts I give you; mark anything you had to assume with [ASSUMPTION].
- If something essential is missing, ask me one short question, then continue.
- No preamble or filler: start with the result.

Confirm you're ready in one line, then wait for me to send research notes, interview summaries or survey results.

## Example
Input: 12 interviews with people who split bills with flatmates
Output (first lines):
> 'The Ledger Keeper' (5 of 12): pays first, tracks in Splitwise, chases everyone.
> Quote: 'I'm always the one asking for ₹340 back.'
> Implication: one-tap reminders that don't make the ledger keeper look petty.