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Cheryl Platz

Design Leader, Innovator, Builder

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Category: Leadership

Microsoft Teams Enablement

The Teams Enablement project at the Gates Foundation was a yearlong effort to support the deployment of Teams to the … More

content strategy, design leadership, enterprise, gates foundation, research, service design, tools, usability studies
A journey map of the onboarding experience at the Gates Foundation.

Employee Experience 2019

My first challenge at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation was to identify the greatest areas of potential impact for … More

collaboration, ethnography, gates foundation, interviews, productivity, research, tools

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 … More

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 … More

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 … More

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 … More

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

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 … More

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 … More

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

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 … More

amazon, information architecture, multimodal, notifications, speech, storyboards, system 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 … More

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-time as a Principal UX Designer with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. She is also the author of Design Beyond Devices: Creating Multimodal, Cross-Device Experiences, published by Rosenfeld Media in December 2020.

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