Persona & Day in the Life Scenarios

I created a persona who would live in the year 2035 so that I could start to imagine how people would work and live in the future. Using the research that I have done so far I have started to form my own vision of the future, the technology will be available and how people will work and interact with the work place. 

Persona Profile 

Name: Martin
Age: 35
Profession: Businessman for a world class IT company
Qualification: MA in Business Studies and Economics at the University of Edinburgh
Marital status: Married
Children: One son aged five
Location: Outskirts of West London

A Day in the Life of Martin

After creating my persona I started to plan a normal day of his life using the insights I have gained from my research and futurecasting.  

[06:00] Martin wakes up and has a shower [standing]. Whilst in the bathroom he listens to some rock music through the home entertainment system.

[06:30] As he eats breakfast [seated] at his breakfast bar, Martin checks his emails and voice messages and is reminded of his schedule and appointments for the day. This is all communicated to him verbally by his home computer system.

When his wife joins him in the kitchen he has a summary of his emails and schedule sent to his e-paper tablet.

[07:00] Martin leaves the house and commutes to work in his driverless car; the journey takes 1 hour. 

[Seated] He prepares for a meeting by reading through a contract on his e-paper tablet using a combination of voice and touch screen control. 

[08:00] Martin arrives at the company HQ. He instructs his car to park in his private parking space in a multi-storey car park using his tablet to control the vehicles integrated satnav. 

He walks into the building and catches up with colleagues whilst making a coffee. He uses the large display on his smartphone to show colleagues a video of his son kicking a football for the first time.

[08:25] Martin decides to work in a quiet zone to prepare for this afternoons virtual meeting.

He uses a large ultra thin touch screen monitor/computer with an e-paper keyboard rather than voice control in this work area. Martin likes to alternate his body orientation between sitting down and stranding up, he adjusts the height of his desk accordingly.

[12.20] Martin and two colleagues go to a cafe for lunch. The cafe is close to the office so they walk. They discuss the news and football results over lunch. 

[13:00] Martin walks back to the office and heads to a private video conference room.

[13:10] Martin arranges the videos of meeting members, documents, graphs etc on a large display which can be moved in 4 DOF. 

The meeting takes 2 hours and Martin changes his orientation from sitting upright, standing and sitting back. He controls the screen by using a combination of voice, motion and touch depending on his orientation.

[16.30] Martin leaves the office and recalls his driverless vehicle using his phone and finishes some work during the commute home.

[17:30] Martin arrives home and changes into some more comfortable clothes. 

[17:45] Martin eats dinner with his wife whilst their son plays games on a tablet [Seated] at the dinner table.

[20:30] With their son in bed, Martin and his wife watch a film on a large 3D screen before going to bed.