The persona set provides a detailed and accurate description of the various situations faced by families caring for a child who has suffered a stroke. I am familiar with similar reports from my clients, whom I support as a coach. Most of them are parents of children who have suffered a stroke. I also know a lot from personal experience due to my own hemiparesis. Therefore, the persona set is both personally and professionally interesting and relevant to me.

You receive information about a wide range of aspects of a persona, giving you the feeling that you have a fairly complete picture of each persona. You receive a lot of information in a “concise” or compact way.

At the same time, this also means that after reading it once, you don’t feel like you can immediately get started with it. It’s a lot of information about various aspects, so you feel that further familiarisation or practice is needed to get started with designing.
The whole thing is beautifully designed graphically.

On the one hand, to raise awareness among those around us that strokes can also occur in childhood, and on the other hand, for ourselves, to learn about the types of strokes other stroke survivors have suffered and the effects they have experienced, and how they cope with them.

The persona-set is of professional interest to me, as I will also be working with personas in my own doctoral thesis. I have already done so in my teaching. I think the overview of the locations is very well presented; it’s easy to follow the connections and distances. It’s very easy to understand the effects of stroke on children.

Examples of concrete perceptions when visiting the above-mentioned frequently used healthcare facility, in order to evaluate requirements for planning and design and to be able to address the mental and physical situation of the child and family – for example, what triggers fear and discomfort during hospital visits and how design could counteract this.

The persona set presents good and interesting solutions for how the spatial conditions for children who have suffered a stroke can be effectively adapted and improved in both private and public environments.

Although the personas are already very comprehensive, I might have expected a more specific focus on one’s own home and any modifications that might be required.

The various experiences were described so vividly that you could quickly empathise with the life and experiences of the person and their loved ones. The many details help with this.

Created with great care, very comprehensive and with an eye for various points of interest. Beautiful visual presentation of the landscape.

The set now covers many contexts: your own home, the rehabilitation centre, school, hospital… That is certainly a strength, because it gives you a broader picture and allows you to use them for the design of various types of buildings. At the same time, I can imagine that when you start working on a design for a specific place, you might want to know more about the personas’ experiences with that place. Perhaps a bit far-fetched, but in an ideal world, when downloading the persona set, you could tick an “option” for the type of building you are designing, after which you would receive a version that goes into even more detail? Of course, experiences from other contexts are also relevant, and as a designer you can learn from them for other situations.

I would emphasise the children’s situation a bit more on page 1 of the profiles; in my impression, one learns a great deal about the caregivers. In addition, I find that the situations for the child are not particularly easy to discern in the text; the different types of lines make the text rather confusing for me.

Possibly information on organisations or platforms indicating whom to contact when support is needed, whether therapeutic, psychological or financial.