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Portrait of the synthetic persona Iris Jovanović

Iris Jovanović

Head of Research & Development, measurement-technology manufacturer (around 180 employees) · Wels, Upper Austria

◆ Synthetic persona — not a real human Buying Role: Operations Life-World: The Reflective · Openness & Intellect Decides: rational 52 yrs · Austria

Someone else usually signs the university-cooperation contracts in the end – the work of figuring out who actually produced a result is Iris Jovanović's. As head of research at a measurement-technology company in Wels, she negotiates with universities of applied sciences and funding bodies over rights, deadlines, and intellectual property, and she sizes up students the whole time as possible future colleagues.

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Tech affinity
In the lab she trusts any measuring device whose operating principle she can explain, and no software she actually needs scares her off. Privately she sticks with a simple smartphone for calls and the weather app; she's simply never set up social media, because it never came up.
Defining bias
After the dispute with a partner institute over authorship, she's especially alert for weeks with every new cooperation application and reads intellectual-property clauses twice, even when the partner has been reliable for years. The next unremarkable application gets the same harsh treatment as the contentious one before it, even though there's no reason for it.
How she decides
She makes technical decisions based on data and a night's distance, never on first reflex. On personnel matters she listens for a long time before judging, and in tricky cases seeks advice from a female colleague in senior management, but decides alone in the end.
Personality · Big Five (OCEAN)

What makes Iris tick

Openness
58 · medium
Conscientiousness
91 · high
Extraversion
34 · low
Agreeableness
54 · medium
Neuroticism
61 · medium
Cognitive Biases

The thinking patterns behind the judgments

Availability heuristic high
Endowment effect high
Ambiguity aversion medium

Values, fears, and motivations

Values

  • Scientific rigor
  • Fair contracts
  • Independent judgment
  • Deadlines you can actually keep
  • Long-term thinking

Fears

  • A long-standing partner institute withdraws its signature from the four-way project shortly before the submission deadline, without explanation.
  • A test report from a partner institute cites a measurement procedure from her lab, without the agreed-upon credit.
  • An employee with over ten years in the lab quits to move to a provincial funding agency.
  • A female auditor from the funding agency raises questions after the fact about the cost allocation of a three-year-old project.

Motivations

  • A female student in the lab finds a calibration error that the whole team overlooked for weeks.
  • The funding decision for the four-way project arrives two weeks earlier than scheduled.
Common questions

Iris at a glance

How does Iris make decisions?
Iris Jovanović decides rationally, based on numbers and facts. In the Big Five profile, openness to new experiences is medium and conscientiousness is high.
What does Iris react critically to?
Above all when something touches Iris’s core concerns: “A long-standing partner institute withdraws its signature from the four-way project shortly before the submission deadline, without explanation” and “A test report from a partner institute cites a measurement procedure from her lab, without the agreed-upon credit.” The bias that shapes Iris’s judgment most is “Availability heuristic.”
What is Iris suited for as a test persona?
For pretesting content from the perspective of “Head of Research & Development, measurement-technology manufacturer (around 180 employees)”, Life-World “The Reflective · Openness & Intellect” — before real budget goes into marketing or research.
What Iris pays attention to

What convinces Iris — and what puts Iris off

A tendency from the profile — in Radical Personas, Iris reviews your real content with concrete reasoning.

Convincing

Scientific rigor · Fair contracts · Independent judgment

Off-putting

A long-standing partner institute withdraws its signature from the four-way project shortly before the submission deadline, without explanation. · A test report from a partner institute cites a measurement procedure from her lab, without the agreed-upon credit.

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What convinces
Scientific rigor, Fair contracts, Independent judgment — that is what Iris measures an offer against.
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Reservations & concerns
A long-standing partner institute withdraws its signature from the four-way project shortly before the submission deadline, without explanation.; A test report from a partner institute cites a measurement procedure from her lab, without the agreed-upon credit..
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How Iris decides
Decides rationally, based on numbers and facts.
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Strongest cognitive bias
Availability heuristic — shapes the judgment.
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The full depth — 8 psychological layers per Persona
1Biography2Psychology3Cognitive Biases4Emotion5Cultural Context6Behavior7Anti-Patterns8Language

Each layer comes with situational vignettes and typical reactions — how Iris thinks and acts in concrete scenarios.

Questions you could ask Iris in the chat
  • What keeps you from buying?
  • How would a new vendor win you over?
  • Which phrases in this copy put you off?

In the chat, Iris answers in a voice of their own — to your questions about audience, offer, and copy.

The part that matters

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8 object types Iris can review
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