---
title: Personae and models
summary: Models and illustrations that turn the patterns into characters, goals and contexts a team can reason with.
type: artifact
order: 3
activity: Modeling
loop_stage: discovery/modeling
domains: [people, technology]
status: draft
version: 0.1
updated: 2026-10-25
sources: [Traditional UX Practice v1.2 (2010)]
confidence: stated
next: requirements
---

Models and illustrations that turn the patterns into characters, goals and contexts a team can reason with.

## Where it comes from

**Activity:** Modeling. From the 2010 list: Models and illustrations from the data. Characters humanized for scenarios and narratives. Goals understood. Objects, actions and contexts defined. Content strategy.

## The spec (to be worked)

| Part | What goes here |
| --- | --- |
| Inputs | What this artifact is made from |
| The skill that makes it | The steps an agent or a person follows |
| Shape | A fixed template the next skill can read |
| How it's checked | What has to be true before it counts as done |
| Next | [Requirements](/artifacts/requirements) |

This artifact is a skeleton. Fully worked specs come one at a time, and the [changelog](/changelog) records each one.