Workshops – Ideaplatz

07 Jun 2021

New Workshop Series: Multimodal Design Fundamentals

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For the first time in four years, Ideaplatz has launched a new full-length workshop offering. Based on the content from Ideaplatz founder Cheryl Platz's new book Design Beyond Devices, our new workshop Multimodal Design Fundamentals walks participants through a wide range of concepts, frameworks, and techniques that will prepare them for delivering advanced multimodal and cross-channel experiences. Participants from our inaugural corporate class at a Big 4 consulting client were enthusiastic about the experience: Cheryl, thank you so much for a wonderful, memorable 3-day workshop! Looking forward to looking through all the content again. Thanks for an amazing workshop Cheryl!…

15 Jan 2021

Design Beyond Devices: Winter Tour 2021

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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 Multimodal, Cross-Device Experiences. Whether you're looking to add a new multimodal skill to your design toolbox or simply looking for some lightweight techniques with which you can expand your user research, there's something here for you. All Winter 2021 tour dates are virtual and can be viewed from anywhere in the world. Voice Design Workshop - Jan 20-29Customer Context Workshop - Feb 2Multimodal Voice Design Workshop - Feb 12Design Beyond…

18 Nov 2020

Capturing Customer Context – Free Downloadable Worksheets

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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 experiences. But how do you bring your stakeholders along when they think they understand everything about your customers? These 4 downloadable FREE worksheets are designed to jumpstart your own explorations. Either have team members print and complete individually during a workshop, or use them solo as questions to prompt your own preparations. Shared Understanding Baseline: What do you already know, what are the constraints, and what has already been done?Visualizing Context: Use…

11 Nov 2020

New workshop: UXLx Masters with UX Lisbon

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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 with both classic content and brand new content, available worldwide! Expect several announcements for the Winter 2021 season, but we're excited to share the first: Cheryl has joined the lineup of UXLx Masters, hosted by the folks behind UX Lisbon. At the time of this writing, early bird tickets for the 3-day program from Feb 10-12 are still available for 295€ + VAT. Each master class is designed to build upon…

05 Apr 2019

UX Days Tokyo & Seoul 2019

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Cheryl is honored this week to speak at both UX Days Tokyo and the inaugural UX Days Seoul! UX Days 2019 marks the debut of Cheryl's new brand new talk, Voice User Interface Design: New Solutions for Old Problems. (Click here to download Cheryl's UX Days 2019 talk slides in PDF form: 18MB.) Based on one of Cheryl's most popular Medium posts, this new talk reflects upon the success of today's voice interfaces and provides a framework for beginning your product's voice design journey. Cheryl is bringing this talk later this year to An Event Apart in Chicago, and to…

19 Nov 2018

Seattle-area voice design workshop on Nov 30

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After two years of touring the world, "Giving Voice to your Voice Designs" is coming home! We're offering the full-day version of this renowned voice design workshop in Redmond, WA on November 30. $350 includes all fees, snacks, a boxed lunch, and take-home materials. A 10% discount is available for teams of 4 or more when booking together. Don't miss this rare opportunity to take this workshop with a small group without traveling abroad! Perfect for both first-party voice designers (at companies like Amazon or Google), multimodal designers looking to add voice to existing experiences, and product managers or developers…

29 Oct 2018

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Speaking at Amuse UX Conference

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Cheryl is in Budapest today to speak at Amuse UX Conference, bringing a newly updated version of her groundbreaking talk The Future of Voice. Want to download the slides? We've got your back. Future of Voice: Amuse UX 2018 (PDF) A few additional seats have been added to our full-day Giving Voice to Voice Designs workshop scheduled during Amuse workshop day on Halloween - grab one here for $330 before they're gone again!

27 Oct 2018

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Expanded corporate training available

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This week, Cheryl had the honor of leading a two-day conversational UI workshop for a talented group of designers and other futurists at BMW Group in Munich, Germany. Thanks to everyone on the team for the opportunity, and the excellent questions along the way! Is your design team looking to level up their skills in the face of increased input and output complexity? Our workshops can help. Reach out to us today to discuss a single or multi-day workshop plan customized to your team's needs. Choose from these popular full day workshops and mix and match to fit within your…

03 Oct 2018

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VUI Workshop in Budapest on Oct 31!

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Join us for our full-day voice workshop in Budapest on October 31 Amuse UX has booked us for a rare full-day version of our world-renowned voice design workshop, Giving Voice to your Voice Designs. Our curriculum has been updated in 2018 for even more interactivity, and received rave reviews at UX London 2018 and UX Week 2018 in its half-day form. This full day format allows plenty of time for hands-on exploration of your voice skill, feature, or idea - and some concepts not discussed in the half day version of the class. This will be the last public presentation…

31 Aug 2018

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Giving Voice @ UX Week: Thank you!

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Cheryl was honored to bring Giving Voice to Your Voice Designs, our world-renowned voice design workshop, to a large group of nearly 50 passionate designers at UX Week 2018 in San Francisco this August. The 2018 version of the course brings greater interactivity and opportunities for hands-on work. Take a peek at some of the in-progress design work, and reach out to us if you'd like to bring this workshop to your own event!