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.

TOP TALKS AND WORKSHOPS

Capturing Customer Context

Build a stronger foundation for your next-generation experiences with these improv-inspired customer outreach guidelines suitable for all skill levels.

Giving Voice to your Voice Designs

Learn what it takes to design a production-ready natural language voice interface, from constraints to guidelines and deliverables.

Multimodal Design Fundamentals

Get hands-on with the groundbreaking multimodal design frameworks and techniques content from the book "Design Beyond Devices."

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!"

"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. "

"Thank you! That was really interesting, entertaining, unexpected, got me thinking. Onwards to the (next) final frontier!"

"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."

"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"

"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!"