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Design Beyond Devices: Creating Multimodal, Cross-Device Experiences

Design Beyond Devices: Creating Multimodal, Cross-Device Experiences

Your customer has five senses and a small universe of devices. Why aren’t you designing for all of them?

2020

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Riot Games UX Design

Shared Design Understanding: #TheUnlock at Riot Games

How did we build a resilient shared understanding of desired player outcomes across platforms, games, AND companies — quickly?

23 min readOct 30, 2023

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Fail Limit Exceeded

Why Twitter’s latest “rate limit” blunder may be their white whale

10 min readJul 1, 2023

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Fail Limit Exceeded

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IWD 2024: On Goalposts, Interviews, and the Illusion of Allyship

On International Women’s Day, it’s time to acknowledge the continued difference between appearances and reality in the workplace — and what…

20 min readMar 8, 2024

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IWD 2024: On Goalposts, Interviews, and the Illusion of Allyship

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Lifting UX Design from the doldrums: four key craft improvements for your teams

Rather than placing the blame on Figma, or other disciplines, how might we look at current conditions and adapt?

14 min readFeb 5, 2024

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Lifting UX Design from the doldrums: four key craft improvements for your teams

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Surviving Science Fiction: Chat GPT and Large Language Models

How are large language models changing our world, and why are so many people worried about them?

15 min readAug 7, 2023

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A photo of a phone resting on a laptop keyboard. The phone is open to a browser page, “bard.google.com”, and the page header reads “Bard can explain why large language models might make mistakes” before showing a confirmation that the user has been added to a waitlist.

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The Decline of Delta: From Passengers to Pawns

Once top of the industry, now withholding food and water as passengers across the country find their health and safety at risk: Delta’s…

25 min readJul 26, 2023

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The Decline of Delta: From Passengers to Pawns

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Surviving Science Fiction: An Intro to AI for the Rest of Us

Struggling to make sense of the world post-ChatGPT? So are the rest of us. Let’s explore the basics of artificial intelligence in a more…

14 min readJul 22, 2023

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Surviving Science Fiction: An Intro to AI for the Rest of Us

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Riot Games UX Design

The UX Behind #TheUnlock at Riot Games: Part 1

How design helped shape the Riot Games + Xbox Game Pass player experience during business development

15 min readMar 21, 2023

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The key art for the Riot Games + Xbox Game Pass partnership. Shown from left to right are Jinx (from League of Legends: Wild Rift, Fade (from VALORANT), Pengu (from Teamfight Tactics), K’sante (in League of Legends), and Yasuo (in Legends of Runeterra).

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Bootcamp

Alexa’s Sub-Prime Era

What will become of the great wave of digital assistants in the face of huge layoffs and a cooling economy?

16 min readJan 5, 2023

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A woman sitting in a living room looks at her smart speaker with disdain and raises her hands in frustration.

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UX Collective

The Twitter migration: flying away from the wizard

Feeling lost, sad, or angry after looking behind the Twitter curtain? Are you frustrated at the technical barriers around you? It’s not…

11 min readNov 21, 2022

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The Twitter migration: flying away from the wizard

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Cheryl Platz

Cheryl Platz

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Designer, actress, teacher, speaker, writer, gamer. Author of Design Beyond Devices. Founder of Ideaplatz, LLC. Director of UX, Player Platform @ Riot Games.

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