05 Feb 2024
New Medium Post: Lifting UX Design from the doldrums

New Medium Post: Lifting UX Design from the doldrums

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Ideaplatz founder Cheryl Platz's latest Medium post for the Ideaplatz Medium publication takes a step back and identifies four key themes that have helped her grow multiple UX teams of various sizes to successful, highly-integrated partnerships with product and engineering. Check out the post on Medium today and grab the reference image below to keep handy for your own practice! Four-Roads-to-improved-UX-Design-partnershipsDownload [Image Credit: Cheryl Platz via Ideaplatz] Four roads to improved UX Design partnerships — Expand your design storytelling, Align and amplify your design process, build shared understanding across disciplines and teams, and connect and share across the UX craft. Feel free to…
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24 Jul 2023
Fail Limit Exceeded: Cheryl on the decline of Twitter

Fail Limit Exceeded: Cheryl on the decline of Twitter

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Cheryl's recent post for Medium on June's rate limit "feature" release was promoted as a Staff Pick, sent out in several large-distribution Medium newsletters including Longreads, and met with some great discussion and discourse. In this piece, Cheryl breaks down the potentially unintended consequences of these restrictions and how they cut to the core of what made Twitter so special. She also uses the PICS framework from her book Design Beyond Devices to talk about how to evaluate decisions like this in the future. Read "Fail Limit Exceeded" on Medium. "Either way, Twitter has successfully pivoted from the world’s town square…
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