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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
Design Beyond Devices: Winter Tour 2021
January 15, 2021
As this chaotic year comes into focus, so does a new series of talks and workshops in support of Cheryl's new book published through Rosenfeld Media, Design Beyond Devices: Creating Multimo... 
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... 
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... As seen at
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