Alertbox: Audio Signifiers | Don’t 'Validate' Designs | Agile Personas

New Articles Audio Signifiers for Voice Interaction Provide explicit, implicit, and nonverbal signifiers to help users understand their options in voice-interaction interfaces. (11 min. to read) Don’t “Validate” Designs; Test Them The phrase “validate the design” discourages teams from finding and following up on UX issues in user testing. UX research must drive design change, not just pat designers on the back. (5 min. to read) New Video Bringing Personas to Agile Kim Flaherty discusses ways to fit personas in Agile environments to improve the resulting user experience. (3 min. video) UX Conference New York City: September 9–15 (see live tweets) Chicago: October 7–13 London: November 11–17 Las Vegas: December 2–8 Singapore: January 29 – February 2, 2018 Full event program describing all full-day UX training courses. Online Seminars Initiating a Design System: Addressing challenges of scaling user interface design and development (September 21) Building a 2.0: Making Big Changes Without Causing Big Waves (October 4) Working with Observers: Involving Colleagues, Stakeholders and Clients for Maximum Benefit (November 8) See list of all online seminars, including on-demand seminars. Copyright © 2017 Nielsen Norman Group, All rights reserved. You're receiving this newsletter because you subscribed at http://www.nngroup.com/articles/subscribe/ Our mailing address is: Nielsen Norman Group 48105 Warm Springs Blvd. Fremont, CA 94539-7498, USA Add us to your address book Is this email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. unsubscribe from this list | change your subscription email address