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Ideaplatz offers design instruction that empowers today’s designers to build tomorrow’s experiences. Founder Cheryl Platz is an internationally recognized designer, author, speaker, and instructor. Our services are available for conferences, corporate training and individual coaching.
Cheryl is the author of Design Beyond Devices: Creating Multimodal, Cross-Design Experiences, published by Rosenfeld Media in Dec 2020. She is touring (virtually) with talks and workshops in 2020-21 in support of this release, including Opti-Pessimism, the new Design Beyond Websites, and 2 new workshops: Capturing Customer Context and Multimodal Voice Design. Previous content is also available.
To inquire about bookings, contact Cheryl at cheryl@ideaplatz.com
Top Talks and Workshops
Giving Voice to Your Voice Designs
In this full day workshop, learn what it takes to design a production-ready voice interface.
Designing for voice interaction can ...
Collaborative Creativity through Improv
Take a peek behind the curtain as two technologists who double as professional improvisors demonstrate some of the key principles ...
The Future of Voice
Far from HAL or Her, the current generation of voice interfaces represents an incredibly important step forward - but the journey ...
Latest News
Capturing Customer Context – Free Downloadable Worksheets
November 18, 2020
In Chapter 2 of Design Beyond Devices, Ideaplatz founder Cheryl Platz lays out the importance of going beyond surface inquiry when doing customer outreach for multimodal and cross-device ex... 
Virtual Book Tour: Fall 2020 Dates
November 11, 2020
In the winter of 2020, I announced a tour that never came to be - a set of speaking engagements around the US in support of my upcoming book, Design Beyond Devices. COVID-19 had other plans... 
November 2020 Talks: Slides Available
November 21, 2020
Thank you to everyone who attended my three talks this month as I (virtually) tour in support of the release of my new book, Design Beyond Devices, coming from Rosenfeld Media on December 1... 
New workshop: UXLx Masters with UX Lisbon
November 11, 2020
It's been a busy year adjusting to the new pandemic normal, emceeing Rosenfeld Media conferences, and writing Design Beyond Devices, but the time has finally come to return to workshops wit... As seen at
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