Our newest workshop is based directly on the content from Cheryl’s book, Design Beyond Devices: Creating Multimodal, Cross-Device Experiences. It was designed for remote delivery from the ground up, and has successfully been delivered for corporate clients but has yet to receive a public debut due to pandemic conditions.

Multimodal Design Fundamentals is a full-day conference workshop, or available as a 3-day workshop series for corporate clients.

Are you looking to power up your customer outreach across multiple disciplines – not just UX Research, but UX Design, product management, program management, and beyond? Capturing Customer Context is a half-day, hands-on workshop version of the talk content pulled from Cheryl’s book Design Beyond Devices. Designed for remote participation from the ground up, participants will practice using a new framework for getting greater detail about the world in which their customers operate. Informed by Cheryl’s work on multimodal experiences and her work as an improv teacher and performer.

By popular demand, Cheryl developed a 2-hour workshop to help folks looking to adopt lessons from the performing arts to improve their experience presenting and interacting in workspaces. This workshop draws from Cheryl’s experience as an improv teacher, improv performer, senior design leader, and internationally acclaimed public speaker to provide a basic toolkit for folks looking to level up their own personal presence.

As an extension of the hypothesis Cheryl posed in her 2011 Interaction talk “Computer Engineer Barbie”, this workshop was designed to bring the concepts of UX design to middle school and high school aged students in hopes of connecting the abstract technical skills taught in school with real-life human benefit. This course has been taught to hundreds upon hundreds of students across multiple camps like Digigirlz, Girls who Code, and Dawgbytes.

The workshop that started it all: Cheryl’s voice design workshop has been taught on multiple continents, in multiple languages, and has inspired a generation of voice designers. The content remains salient, and as text-based interaction paradigms like ChatGPT become more prevalent, the skills required to create resilient, repeatable voice prompts will become more in demand. In a world where almost every device you work with is capable of voice interaction, add voice design to your toolbox to differentiate your experiences and make your work more inclusive.

Due to the massive changes caused by large language models, we no longer proactively offer this course, choosing to focus on multimodal design and other topics.