Know Your Qubits, Know Your Users: Personas for Quantum Software

Abstract:The advancement of quantum hardware and the intricacies of quantum computing make well-designed quantum software increasingly necessary. Due to the interdisciplinarity of the field, it is crucial to understand the perspectives and specific needs of involved stakeholders, for example, to balance the desired level of abstraction with the exposition of (hardware)-specific details. In this work, we conduct a stakeholder-based analysis to identify personas of quantum software as a means of creating meaningful, user-tailored quantum software. We conducted an expert focus group at a Dagstuhl seminar in 2024 and qualitative interviews with practitioners at conference IEEE QCE in 2025, from which we derive eleven personas of potential users and stakeholders for quantum software. We discuss these personas regarding their use cases, interests, constraints and abstraction level.

arXiv:2608.18598 [quant-ph]

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