Cheryl Platz Author of Design Beyond Devices on Multimodal Voice UX - Voicebot Podcast Ep 190

Cheryl Platz is the author of the new book "Design Beyond
Devices, creating multimodal cross-device experiences" published
by Rosenfeld.


Platz is currently the principal UX designer for the Bill and
Melinda Gates Foundation. She was on the core team that launched
the Echo Look which was Amazon's attempt to inject Alexa into
fashion selection. That was preceded by time working on
Microsoft's Cortana voice assistant. She began her career as a
game producer at EA and Griptonite.


Platz is also a cast member and instructor for Unexpected
Productions Seattle, an improv comedy troupe and earned a degree
in computer science with a focus on human-computer interaction
from Carnegie-Mellon University.