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Cheryl Platz

Interaction Designer, Prototyper, Design Leader

Dynamics 365 settings IA: Power platform admin center

As part of my role as the Design Lead for the launch of Microsoft’s ambitious Power platform admin center, I…

complexity, design leadership, information, information architecture, servers, tools

Design leadership: Power platform admin center

On November 1, 2017, I took on a new role at Microsoft as the Design Lead for a new and…

complexity, design leadership, information architecture, microsoft

Conversational UI: Thought Leadership

Since beginning my journey in voice user interfaces, I’ve been deeply passionate about the space. One of my motivations for…

Echo Look (Product and VUI Design)

I was hired to help a fledgling product team transform their initial concept lab pitch into a production-worthy multimodal design…

alexa, amazon, fashion, hardware, information architecture, multimodal, research, speech, storyboards

Alexa Notifications and Interruption Model

Upon joining the central Alexa Voice Design team in late 2015, my first order of business was to tackle a…

amazon, information architecture, multimodal, notifications, speech, storyboards, system design

Azure Marketplace Gallery Filter

When we launched the new Azure Marketplace in January of 2017, we initially adopted the category control from AppSource.com, both…

e-commerce, information architecture, iterative design, microsoft, search and filter

Azure Partner UX Guidelines

When I returned to Microsoft in August 2016, I joined as the Design Lead for the Azure Framework. Our team…

azure, complexity, guidelines, information architecture, microsoft, visual design

Alexa Skill: My Countdown

My second published Alexa skill was born from a request from a dear friend. We were planning a joint family…

alexa, amazon, voice design

Marketplace Landing Pages

In early 2017, analysis of the AppSource.com telemetry revealed a potentially significant problem with the landing experience on AppSource.com, which…

e-commerce, microsoft, visual design

Azure Marketplace 2.0

In the fall of 2016, my responsibilities as the Azure Framework Design Lead expanded to include direct responsibility for our…

azure, complexity, e-commerce, marketplaces, microsoft, servers

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Cheryl Platz is a world-class designer specializing in natural user interfaces, complexity, information architecture, and new product design. She has influenced millions of customers via her work at Microsoft, Amazon, Disney, Griptonite Games, Electronic Arts and MAYA Design. She owns design education firm Ideaplatz, LLC, and is employed full with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

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