The Inmates Are Running the Asylum

We've used them in our space.

But did you know that they were actually introduced in the late 1990s in a book called "The Inmates Are Running the Asylum"?

Oh, wow.

Alan Cooper wrote this book, and what he did is he built personas from user interviews to help illustrate design teams picturing who they were building for.

Uh, and as we'll see many, you know, m-much of the engineering mindset, the homo logicus, you know, the logical man, uh, as, uh...

That's from, uh, "The Inmates Are Running the Asylum," a product management book.

Uh, there, there's a character type here that doesn't fit with a three at all, and it fits much better with a five.

Interestingly, Enneagram teachers frequently say that the five is the least common Enneatype.

So that's when I was introduced to the term user experience, user interface, because Cooper literally came up with that terminology.

He wrote a book called The Inmates Are Running the Asylum, which is a really powerful book, and you'll probably read it too.

So that's where I was, again, I was always invited to say, hey, come check this out.

And my human design energy type is a projector, which means that I'm always looking for that invitation.