M. Jackson Wilkinson has been working on the web for more than a decade. Beginning as a developer in the early days of the web, he has since been involved in every major aspect of online design and development, advising clients on how to effectively leverage their online presences to create pleasurable user experiences. He has worked with foreign embassies, non-profits, and the largest corporations in the world, and is a regular speaker on mobile and user experience strategy. Away from work, you generally can find him performing as a classical singer, cheering on Philly sports teams, or very occasionally writing on his blog, [Jounce](http://jounce.net). Viget Labs http://viget.com 25 http://www.linkedin.com/in/mjwilkinson Washington, DC M. Jack?on Wilkinson http://jounce.net whafro 4.28 /avatars/25/thumb/FaceYourManga.com_Shake_Yourself_.jpg 2009-09-25T11:33:23+00:00 1484 A discussion of the traits great web professionals tend to share, to be given to new folks entering the field. This talk was prepared for Jeff Brown, the Webucator, and his students. Damascus High School, Damascus, MD 10 2009-09-25T11:33:23+00:00 2009-09-25T10:00:00+00:00 2009-07-14T11:07:09+00:00 1250 As modern browsers begin to support the emerging HTML5 and CSS3 standards, and products like Google's Chrome OS are being built around their capabilities, they are beginning to become more relevant to designers and developers. Refresh DC organizers Jason Garber and Jackson Wilkinson will walk through these two new technologies, how they may impact the emerging web, and how you can begin to use certain pieces right now. AARP, 601 E Street NW, Washington, DC 20049 6 http://www.slideshare.net/whafro/up-to-speed-on-html-5-and-css-3 http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/3068983/ 2009-07-20T10:58:14+00:00 2009-07-16T19:00:00+00:00 4.35 2009-07-20T11:02:35+00:00 1255 If you've ever tried to execute a research-driven UX or design project for a client, you've probably found that research/testing and budgets mix about as well as oil and water. Learn how to make effective design and UX decisions when resources are limited, be it time or money. MICA, Baltimore, MD 54 http://www.slideshare.net/whafro/how-macgyver-would-do-design-research 2009-07-20T11:02:35+00:00 2009-06-10T19:00:00+00:00 2009-07-20T11:20:14+00:00 1257 A talk given to the entrepreneurs at LaunchBox Digital 2009 about how to value and incorporate User Experience principles in their products. LaunchBox Digital, 709 G Street N.W., Washington, DC 20001 56 http://www.slideshare.net/whafro/ux-matters 2009-07-20T11:20:14+00:00 2009-06-04T14:30:00+00:00 2009-07-20T11:14:01+00:00 142 1256 Speed on the web is one of the most important elements of the user experience. Whether your visitors are using a high-speed connection or a slow mobile connection, it's up to designers and developers to deliver a fast and responsive experience. We'll look at a handful of ways to make your site perform its best, and how to make the user feel like it's performing even better. http://www.slideshare.net/whafro/keeping-it-snappy-improving-website-performance http://www.aimconference.com/Agenda.html 2009-07-20T11:14:01+00:00 2009-04-23T10:45:00+00:00 2008-12-08T11:43:06+00:00 10 17 If you've ever tried to execute a research-driven UX or design project for a client, you've probably found that research/testing and budgets mix about as well as oil and water. Learn how to make effective design and UX decisions when resources are limited, be it time or money. 2009-04-01T15:37:20+00:00 2009-04-01T09:40:00+00:00 4.5 2009-03-11T18:53:10+00:00 5 547 If you've ever tried to execute a research-driven UX or design project for a client, you've probably found that research/testing and budgets mix about as well as oil and water. Learn how to make effective design and UX decisions when resources are limited, be it time or money. http://2009.sxsw.com/interactive/talks/panels/?action=show&id=IAP0900483 2009-03-11T18:53:10+00:00 2009-03-15T17:00:00+00:00 3.83 2008-12-22T18:26:44+00:00 17 39 Agile methodologies have been all the rage in development circles in the last couple years, and they've yielded great results since being applied to the rest of the project cycle as well. However, Agile can yield frustration for designers, product managers, and others concerned with how the process and its tight timelines seem to starve a user-centric design and research process. User Experience Strategist Jackson Wilkinson has been working on the front lines, helping shape the processes at his and other agencies to balance the needs of designers and developers alike, whilst keeping project managers (mostly) sane. He'll share tips, tricks, and methods to apply to your process to help you achieve that same balance. http://www.webstock.org.nz/09/programme/workshops.php#wilkinson 2009-02-17T04:10:34+00:00 2009-02-17T09:00:00+00:00 4.4 2008-12-14T17:09:56+00:00 35 This training workshop helps to show how every role throughout the design and development process can have an impact on the user experience, and expose participants to the principles, theory, and tools anyone can use to make choices that support a positive user experience. Viget Labs, 202 Rigsbee Ave, Durham, NC 27701 11 2008-12-14T17:09:56+00:00 2008-12-15T12:00:01+00:00 4.03 2008-12-05T09:32:17+00:00 8 SpeakerRate is a community site for event organizers, attendees, and speakers. * Event organizers can find speakers, learn about talks they've given in the past, and determine who would be a good match for the event they're organizing. * Event attendees can provide constructive feedback to speakers, track the talks they've attended, and research upcoming talks that they might attend. * Event speakers can get valuable constructive feedback directly from attendees and find out how they can improve their content and delivery for their next talk. They can also establish a SpeakerRating, which will help them earn future speaking opportunities. SpeakerRate is a Pointless Corp. project. We built SpeakerRate because we are event organizers, attendees, and speakers ourselves, and we felt like a site like SpeakerRate would be useful for us and others. We hope others agree. Viget Labs 4 http://www.speakerrate.com 2009-01-29T16:02:36+00:00 2008-12-15T09:30:00+00:00 2008-12-08T12:02:48+00:00 11 18 This was a lightning talk to explain some high-level strategies, sprinkled with a few low-level tactics, when trying to shape and present a talk. It talks about keeping your message cohesive, and how to build from a single thought to a full presentation. It talks about the use of slides, and how they should support, rather than be, your presentation. Finally, it has some quick thoughts on delivery and how to embrace your own personality in your presentation, no matter what your personal style may be. 2008-12-08T12:02:48+00:00 2008-11-11T12:00:00+00:00 2008-12-09T07:27:43+00:00 31 This talk, targeted at students, discusses the impact of the fact that the web is moving away from being a canvas for art to an interface with which people interact. This change brings a wide array of new disciplines into the picture when working on the web, many of which are not design- or development-related, like social psychology, human-computer interaction, statistics, and more. Damascus High School, Damascus, MD 10 2009-02-01T13:35:36+00:00 2008-10-10T11:00:00+00:00 2008-12-08T11:32:26+00:00 9 16 The hallmark of the agile process is its short release schedule. Developers on a project might spend two weeks adding onto a product, release it, and then move into another two week iteration before another release. This yields efficient development, with little wasted effort and a great opportunity to adapt to change throughout the development process. For designers and user experience architects, the process might not seem as efficient. Often, a design team will spend weeks creating the design for a project, only to see the fruits of their labor adversely affected as the developers take the design into their own hands as requirements and interfaces change. This talk presents a methodology for ensuring that an agile project maintains its design and user experience integrity throughout the project. This happens by staggering the involvement of every aspect of the team, with user experience and design teams working on the third iteration, for example, while the development team works on the second iteration. At all points, everyone on the team is in a position to innovate for future iterations as well as learn from the outcome of past iterations. With a carefully crafted process integrating agile user experience planning, agile design, as well as agile development processes, a project team can ensure that the results are well-designed while still maintaining all the advantages of traditional agile development. http://www.slideshare.net/whafro/design-and-ux-in-an-agile-process-presentation http://jounce.net/2008/09/23/agile-design-ux-at-the-web-20-expo/ 2008-12-08T11:32:26+00:00 2008-09-19T02:25:00+00:00 2008-12-08T21:58:44+00:00 24 This panel will discuss challenges and opportunities in the startup industry today, including hiring decisions, funding options, and succeeding as a startup in the DC area. Moderated by M. Jackson Wilkinson. Strategic Analysis, 3601 Wilson Boulevard, Arlington, VA 6 http://refresh-dc.org 2009-04-30T21:21:12+00:00 2008-04-15T19:00:01+00:00 4.68 2008-12-09T07:37:08+00:00 32 In this short talk for high school students, two claims are made: the web is not a canvas -- the most successful websites concentrate on helping their users do things, not just see or read things; and secondly that rules may be broken, when you know how to break them -- standards are there to help you, not hold you back, so if you're able to justify breaking a rule, and everyone is better off in the end, it's not wrong to do it. Damascus High School, Damascus, MD 10 2008-12-09T07:37:08+00:00 2008-04-09T07:30:00+00:00 2008-12-09T09:28:15+00:00 33 Microformats allow designers and front-end developers to use an even richer semantic vocabulary on the web than XHTML allows, opening doors to increased functionality, a built-in API, search advantages, and data portability. This talk gives an overview of microformats, how they developed and fit into the story of the web, how to use them on your websites, and what they enable, both now and into the future. 400 S Maple Ave, Falls Church, VA 8 2008-12-09T09:28:15+00:00 2007-09-26T12:00:00+00:00 2008-12-09T07:11:33+00:00 29 The mobile web offers a very different opportunity and context from the traditional, computer-centric web. This talk offers a description of what changes when you move from a desktop to a mobile device and context, and how to take advantage of these changes both strategically and from a design and development perspective. The Motley Fool, 2000 Duke Street, Alexandria, VA 6 http://jounce.net/presentations/refreshMobileWeb.pdf 2008-12-09T07:11:33+00:00 2007-06-21T19:00:00+00:00 4.55 2008-12-09T07:16:14+00:00 30 Microformats have been giving front-end developers and designers the opportunity to offer structured data on their websites without having to create an API, and are creating a new, higher-level set of standards in the process. This talk explores what Microformats are, how to use them, whether to use them, and the opportunities they can present to both those creating the website as well as those using the website. Library of Congress, Madison Building, 101 Independence Avenue S.E., Washington, DC 6 http://jounce.net/presentations/refreshMicroformats/ 2008-12-09T07:16:14+00:00 2006-08-17T19:00:00+00:00