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Persona-Driven Development (PDD): Designing Systems for Humans, Not Just Users

🧭 Most systems are designed for “users.”

But who is the user, really?

In this post, I explore Persona-Driven Development (PDD) — a new spin on the familiar idea of personas, now enhanced with LLMs and agentic interfaces.

Forget static slides of “Marketing Mandy” and “Power User Paul.” With AI, personas can shape:

  • 🎨 UI/UX flows (onboarding, layout, tone)
  • đź§  Agent behavior (how an LLM responds, questions, or pushes back)
  • đź›  Engineering logic (feature toggles, safety rails)
  • 🏛 Policy and rollout decisions (who gets what, and when)

🔍 Highlights from the post:

  • A breakdown of the PDD Stack
  • Real-world examples (learning apps, DevOps tooling)
  • A call to design systems that adapt to people — not just personas on paper

đź§µ Full post here:

👉 Read on Bear Blog


đź’¬ Have you ever built features tailored to behavioral personas?

How would you scope or prompt your next AI agent differently using this idea?

Let’s discuss 👇

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