Design Beyond Devices

🎟 Tickets
$8 general admission; Free for active PSSIGCHI members.
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📖 Event Description
Your customer has five senses and a small universe of devices. Why aren’t you designing for all of them? Go beyond screens, keyboards, and touch screens by letting your customer’s humanity drive the experience – not a specific device or input type. From measured interruptions and inclusive design to transitions between devices and immersive technologies, learn to build an experience that transcends boundaries.

🎤 Speaker
Cheryl Platz is a world-renowned designer whose work on emerging technologies has reached millions of customers across multiple industries: from best-selling video games to the largest cloud platforms in the world. Her professional passions include natural user interfaces, applied storytelling in design, and design at enterprise scale. Past employers include Amazon (Alexa, Echo Look, Echo Show), Microsoft (Azure, Cortana), Electronic Arts/Maxis (The Sims franchise), Griptonite Games (Disney Friends), Disney Parks (PhotoPass), and MAYA Design. Her first book, Design Beyond Devices, will be published by Rosenfeld Media in late 2020.

During the day, Cheryl is a full-time Principal UX Designer at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation helping to develop new services for digital collaboration at a global scale. In her free time, as Principal and owner of design education company Ideaplatz, LLC Cheryl has presented her sought-after workshops and talks around the world to audiences in 15 countries on 5 continents.

Cheryl’s unique background also includes over 15 years as a professional actress and improvisor. She’s been a proud member of the Unexpected Productions performing ensemble since 2008 and teaching faculty since 2013.

Cheryl holds a B.S. in Computer Science & Human-Computer Interaction from Carnegie Mellon University. She tweets at @funnygodmother and @ideaplatz, and you can learn more about all of her work at http://cherylplatz.com.

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