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Category: Women in Technology

Enduring Play E1 S10 Released: Human-Centered Production with Yesenia Cisneros

Posted on October 21, 2025 by Cheryl

The final episode of Enduring Play Season 1 launches today featuring Riot Games Senior Producer Yesenia Cisneros, whose iconic self-made journey through the gaming industry has seen her build a video game production career on a strong personal brand of people-focused problem

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Games, Technology, Women in Technology

Enduring Play E1 S9 Released: Doing More with Less for Video Game Art and UI/UX with Tamara Knoss

Posted on October 14, 2025 by Cheryl

The penultimate episode of Season 1 of Enduring Play: A Game Development Podcast is available worldwide featuring the versatile veteran video game artist and interface designer Tamara Knoss. Currently a Senior Technical UI Designer at Wizards of the Coast, Tamara’s experience spans

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Design, Games, Podcasts, Technology, Women in Technology

Enduring Play S1 E7 Released: Engineering for Scalable, Sustainable Games with Caerie Houchins

Posted on September 30, 2025 by Cheryl

The seventh episode of Season 1 of Enduring Play: hosted by Game Development Strategy Guide author Cheryl Platz, is now live with guest Caerie Houchins, current Chief Technology Officer for indie gaming studio Wicked Fox Games. Caerie brings her perspective working on

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Games, Podcasts, Technology, Women in Technology

Enduring Play S1 E5 Released: Ludonarrative Harmony for Narrative Designers with Whitney Beltrán

Posted on September 16, 2025 by Cheryl

The fifth episode of Season 1 of Enduring Play: A Game Development Podcast, hosted by Game Development Strategy Guide author Cheryl Platz, is now live with guest Whitney Beltrán, a multiple award-winning Mexican-American Narrative Director with over 12 years of experience in

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Design, Games, Podcasts, Technology, Women in Technology

Enduring Play Season 1 Episode 3 Released: Creative Strategy for Thriving Teams with Amy Kalson

Posted on September 2, 2025 by Cheryl

The third episode of Season 1 of Enduring Play: A Game Development Podcast, hosted by Game Development Strategy Guide author Cheryl Platz, is now live with guest Amy Kalson, Executive Design Producer at Meta. This week’s episode starts out a bit like

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Design, Games, Podcasts, Technology, Women in Technology

RADIO: Cheryl on BBC Radio 4 – The Digital Human

Posted on October 23, 2018 by Cheryl
An illustration of a robot doing the hair of a Victorian woman looking into a mirror.

Should our digital devices be coded fema le? What is the impact to our psyche and our society of a generation observing predominantly female digital assistants inside and outside the home? And what does etiquette and politeness mean in a digital world,

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Design, Speaking, Technology, Women in Technology

Launching “Giving Voice to Your Voice Designs”

Posted on February 25, 2017 by Cheryl
Cheryl Platz in a purple dress gesturing to a state in a voice design flow diagram projected in front of a workshop class.

I had the extreme pleasure of debuting my interactive workshop on voice user interface design, “Giving Voice to Your Voice Designs,” at Interaction ’17 in New York this February. Following the successful launch of this workshop, I am now accepting inquiries about

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Design, Speaking, Technology, Women in Technology

Winning at the Starting Line

Posted on March 18, 2015 by Cheryl

Countless articles and books have been written about the gender balance problems that continue to plague the tech industry. I’ve been passionate about outreach at the K-12 level for years, but what of those of us already in the workplace? A recent

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Technology, Women in Technology career, girls-tech, STEM

Crosspost: “What Is UX Design” (Huffington Post)

Posted on March 9, 2013 by Cheryl

I haven’t spoken about it formally here, but I’m honored to be part of one of the featured mentorship pairings in the Huffington Post’s women in STEM mentoring initiative. As part of that relationship, we were asked to provide an intro to

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Design, Technology, Women in Technology

Design for DigiGirlz

Posted on August 17, 2012 by Cheryl

On Wednesday, I had the unique experience of teaching 110 high school girls an intro to interaction design workshop. Officially entitled “Making the World Easier With Interaction Design”, this was a course I built from scratch after offering to teach the subject

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Design, Speaking, Women in Technology, Work career, digigirlz, education, girls-tech, IGNITE, interaction design, Microsoft, STEM, talks
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