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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

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

Join me at Emerald City Comicon 2017

Posted on March 2, 2017 by Cheryl

When I’m not designing, I’m usually performing – and as it turns out, most of my performing endeavours are pretty nerdy. As a result, I’m excited to appear in three panels – my biggest Emerald City Comicon yet! Each panel is on

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Acting, Seattle, Speaking

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

Shadowrun #CorpSINs: Episode 32, “Quarantined Well”

Posted on October 19, 2016 by Cheryl

MMFEC tries to take a stand to save a life, but time runs too short to do things by the book. Will Cromwell survive this turn of his moral compass? Watch all episodes of “Shadowrun: Corporate SINs” on our YouTube playlist; Ep

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Acting, HyperRPG, Speaking corpsins, improv, performances, shadowrun, twitch

My Africa Diaries: Prologue

Posted on February 13, 2014 by Cheryl

Back in December, I was browsing the internal Microsoft forums (Yammer) and stumbled across an announcement for a new volunteer outreach program – MySkills4Afrika, part of the larger Microsoft for Afrika program. They were accepting applications from full-time employees to share their

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Design, Speaking, Technology, Travel, Work Africa, interaction design, Microsoft, MySkills4Afrika, travel

Playing till the Ides of March

Posted on March 2, 2013 by Cheryl

March is definitely coming in like a lion for me – many performances and appearances in the next 14 days, including several appearances at the Emerald City Comicon. Here’s where to find me: SATURDAY MARCH 2nd: “Where No Man Has Gone Before“

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Acting, Seattle, Speaking improv, performances, star trek, STEM

Design for DigiGirlz

Posted on August 17, 2012 by Cheryl

On Wednesday, I had the unique experience of teaching 110 high school girls an intro to interaction design workshop. Officially entitled “Making the World Easier With Interaction Design”, this was a course I built from scratch after offering to teach the subject

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Design, Speaking, Women in Technology, Work career, digigirlz, education, girls-tech, IGNITE, interaction design, Microsoft, STEM, talks

Stage Brain

Posted on September 2, 2011 by Cheryl

A few weeks ago, I walked onto the Intiman Playhouse stage to emcee TheatreSports for the first time at that location. (I’ve performed there several times, but hadn’t MCed yet.) I had done all of the requisite emcee preparation – sound check

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Acting, Seattle, Speaking performances

“Women in Technology” Panel now available online!

Posted on May 21, 2011 by Cheryl

If you have been following my adventures and are interested in listening to the panel I moderated at TechEd 2011 this past Tuesday, look no further. The slides and audio are now available for streaming or for download in video or audio

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Speaking, Technology, Women in Technology girls-tech, IGNITE, STEM, talks 1 Comment
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