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Cheryl at UX Days Seoul and UX Days Tokyo 2019

Posted on April 23, 2019 by Cheryl

Cheryl was deeply honored this month to speak at both UX Days Tokyo and the inaugural UX Days Seoul! UX Days 2019 marked the debut of Cheryl’s new brand new talk, Voice User Interface Design: New Solutions for Old Problems. (Click here

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Design, Speaking, Technology, Travel

Spring 2019 Appearances

Posted on January 27, 2019 by Cheryl
A cast photo for the Star Trek parody Where No Man Gas Gone Before. It features Cheryl as Nurse Chapel and actors portraying Spock, Kirk, Uhura, Bones, and other original crew members.

It’s been a long year! 2018 brought an exciting speaking calendar on two continents, including Interaction 18 in Lyon; a workshop at Microsoft’s Office AI Design Days; a workshop and talk at UX London 2018; DEVit 360 in Thessaloniki, Greece; UX Week

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Acting, Seattle, Speaking, Technology, Travel

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

Voice Design Articles on Medium

Posted on November 2, 2017 by Cheryl
A first generation Amazon Echo and remote.

Over the past year, I’ve published a series of posts on the topics of voice user interfaces and conversational user interfaces. While not quite equivalent, these two topics are fundamentally linked, and over the coming years the two experience classes will likely

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Design, Technology, Writing alexa, career, interaction design

Fall 2017 European Tour Itinerary

Posted on September 10, 2017 by Cheryl

After months of planning, part 2 of my European voice design speaking tour is upon us. I’m honored to be speaking 5 times across 3 cities: Copenhagen, Stockholm and Oslo. Many of the events are close to selling out, so if one

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Design, Speaking, Technology, Travel interaction design, talks, travel

New Portfolio Entry: Echo Look

Posted on August 5, 2017 by Cheryl
The Echo Look, a pill-shaped black and white camera with four flash sensors around a central camera surrounded by a blue illuminated Alexa light ring. Shown on a table.

I am beyond delighted to formally share here that my “secret” Amazon project has finally been announced to the public and is making it into people’s homes. In 2014, I was hired into Amazon as employee #3 on the Echo Look project.

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Design, Technology amazon, service design

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

UX Rants: Facebook and Notifications

Posted on December 11, 2016 by Cheryl

We need to talk about Notifications in Facebook. Notification systems are near and dear to my heart; I’ve worked in some capacity on 4 different notification systems across multiple teams. Unfortunately, Facebook is getting a bit too aggressive these days… Facebook, I

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Design, Technology interaction design

Immediacy Lost: The NBC Olympics

Posted on August 30, 2016 by Cheryl

In a world where Twitch and live video platforms are rapidly emerging, NBC’s Olympic coverage – often tape-delayed and difficult to track – deprived American audiences of the context they seek so hungrily. Shared, simultaneous experiences. The context a moment in time

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Design, Technology

Pokémon Go: The De-Gamification

Posted on August 6, 2016 by Cheryl

I am a lifelong Pokémon fan (Pikachu was my ringbearer) that desperately wants Pokémon GO to survive and thrive. I think the game has tremendous, disruptive potential for the long term (you can read my initial writeup on Forbes.com.) But I’m also

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Games, Technology
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