[kde-guidelines] Styleguide, Section 1 (Vision, Persona, Scenario)

[Heiko Tietze]

The suggested terms have the charm of unison phonation. But if this is true 
for German only it might be a good advice to call it differently. Eventually, I 
don't care too much about wording. Those discussions are usually exhausting 
and distract from the content, which is in my opinion the differentiation of 
'requirements' into destinata/animata or destinatum/actinatum (actor sounds 
like persona). So I'm fine with your ideas.

On Saturday 08 February 2014, 14:45:16 Thomas Pfeiffer wrote:
> On Thursday 30 January 2014 11:04:25 Björn Balazs wrote:
> > Also I would like to question the choice of artefacts. I like to use the
> > metaphor of a stage play. When we want to find UX solutions, we need to
> > understand some sample scenes of the interaction. Each scene (I would call
> > this scenario) has some roles (persona) and there is a stage with some
> > stuff on it (I like to call it situationa). The narrator will tell us
> > about the feelings of the actor(s) (I like to call this animata) and what
> > they want to achieve (the destinata) when they enter the stage (aka start
> > the interaction with the to-be-designed tool)...
> > 
> > Personas, Situationas and Animata can well be shared between the different
> > KDE projects. Destinatas need to be defined individually (and hence the
> > scenarios).
> 
> I've thought (and researched) the proposed terms, and now I'm a bit unsure a
> bout them.
> - Situationa is a word which does not exist, and I do not know if we really
> need to invent new words. Situationa just sounds complicated and difficult
> to remember to me. Given that we're using a theater metaphor, can't we just
> say "Scene"? Or if we'd like to stick with Latin, we could use "scaena". -
> Animata is an existing word, but it's the female form of the adjective for
> "animated", and I don't think we should mix nouns with verbs (it might
> especially feel weird for KDE's Italian members). Since we're talking about
> a play, we could either use "actor" (which is the same word in Latin) or
> "partes" (which means "role" in a play).
> - Destinata is again an Italian verb, so I don't think it should be used as
> a noun. If we want to stick with Latin, I'd use "Destinatum".
> 
> I assume you chose words which you thought did not exist in real languages
> to keep people from making wrong assumptions, but I think it's safe to use
> existing Latin words here because I don't see how these would bring wrong
> assumptions with them.
> 
> I am convinced that using existing terms would help people get into our
> concept easier than if they have to learn new terms (which might even mean
> other things in their native language).
> 
> What's your position on that?
> Cheers,
> Thomas
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