Ideaplatz: the road to great design.

Are you looking to understand how to build a cohesive customer experience across multiple devices? How to work with multiple input technologies at once, like voice and touch? Or perhaps you’re grappling with how to understand your customers in a pandemic-changed world? Ideaplatz is here to help. Learn more about our wide variety of workshops, talks, and consulting topics here to help you navigate your own road to success.

Ideaplatz founder Cheryl Platz is an internationally renowned teacher, speaker, and the author of Design Beyond Devices: Creating Multimodal, Cross-Design Experiences, and 2025’s The Game Development Strategy Guide: Crafting Modern Video Games That Thrive, both published by Rosenfeld Media. Explore the Books section for more information about the free resources Ideaplatz offers in support of Cheryl’s books, as well as ideas about workshops and talks that can take your understanding of these books to the next level.

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Enduring Play: A Game Dev Podcast

Ideaplatz, LLC is the production company behind the underground hit podcast Enduring Play: A Game Development Podcast. Human-crafted by host, game dev, video game professor, and author Cheryl Platz, this limited run series explores how we make video games that don't just survive, but thrive. With 2 seasons and 21 episodes so far, Enduring Play serves as a living companion to the best-selling book The Game Development Strategy Guide - available on all major podcast networks or at enduringplay.com.

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Catch up with evergreen articles from Cheryl on topics like UX design process and the Opti-Pessimism framework. Top articles from the Design Platzitudes LinkedIn newsletter will also be cross-published here.

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The Game Development Strategy Guide

Explore the companion site for Cheryl's second book The Game Development Strategy Guide to see chapter guides for each of the chapters, updates on the book tour, key reviews, podcast show notes, and more.

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HEAR FROM OUR PARTICIPANTS

What our participants and audience members say about our content

"Do it! The workshop is fun, engaging, and incredibly useful. Cheryl is an extremely engaging speaker- not one second of the workshop was boring!"
Rosenfeld Media remote workshop participant, 2021
Giving Voice to your Voice Designs
"Thank you Cheryl for putting these sessions together for us. We have gotten a lot of positive feedback from the learnings and we’ll likely be using the frameworks and techniques in a number of our projects to come. "
Corporate workshop organizer, 2021
Multimodal Design Fundamentals
"Thank you! That was really interesting, entertaining, unexpected, got me thinking. Onwards to the (next) final frontier!"
Mind the Product Fall 2020 attendee
Capturing Customer Context for Cross-Channel Experiences
"The exercises were the best of all other masterclasses I visited because it integrated MURAL. I really liked your lively style of talking. It was very refreshing compared to the other speakers. And the good examples from your experience about how hard certain things were, like thinking about the transitions."
UxLX Masterclass participant, 2021
Multimodal Voice Design
"Having my mind blown by @funnygodmother with her deep understanding of multimodality and models for #interactivity. Her book is now on my reading list. Amazing speaker at our internal #WomeninTeams conference #Boost21"
Internal conference attendee, 2021
The Future of Voice
"Gave us concrete examples of real world items she worked on and they ran into and solved issues and showed us how to think and plan through diagramming a skill using the Mural board. That set up was great!"
Rosenfeld Media remote workshop participant, 2021
Giving Voice to Your Voice Designs
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Explore a Decade of Ideaplatz Talks

Ideaplatz founder Cheryl Platz helping audiences foresee the future and cope with the unprecedented present

This 10-year highlight reel weaves together some of sought-after keynote speaker Cheryl Platz’s most compelling points over the years about product design, consumer products, AI, voice user interfaces, video gaming, live streaming, user experience design, user experience research, game design, and design ethics into a single thread and shows how Cheryl has been helping her audiences predict the future of technology trends long before they hit the mainstream. These talks led directly to Cheryl’s two books, Design Beyond Devices and The Game Development Strategy Guide.

Featured talks: The Future of Voice @ Webdagene 2017 in Oslo, Norway; The Future of Voice @ Amuse 2018 in Budapest, Hungary, The Future of Voice @ Microsoft Research in Redmond, WA; Opti-Pessimism at Interaction Latin America 2019 in Medellin, Colombia; Blank Page to World Stage at Interaction 18 in Lyon, France; Opti-Pessimism @ DEVit 360 2018 in Thessaloniki, Greece; When the Void Strikes Back: Broadcasting at Scale @ Interaction 19 in Seattle, WA; Modern Motivators of Play @ SLICE 2025 in Seattle, WA; Behind #TheUnlock at Riot Games @ Game Quality Forum 2023, Should You Build It? at Interaction 22, Future of Voice @ UX London 2018 in London, UK

As seen on 5 continents and in 15 countries

SELECTED CLIENTS AND EVENTS

Our talks and workshops have been seen and refined based on feedback from a variety of public and corporate audiences around the world.

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  • BMW Group in Munich, Germany
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  • DEVit 360 (2018) in Thessaloniki, Greece
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  • Microsoft Research invited talk, 2017
  • Interaction 18 in Lyon, France
  • Webdagene 2017 in Oslo, Norway