User:Jorm (WMF)

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 * full name = Brandon Harris
 * image name = Brandon Harris courage.jpg
 * hover text = Brandon Harris, Senior Designer
 * job title = Senior Designer
 * organization = Wikimedia Foundation
 * short quote = "More Kirk; Less Spock."
 * about me = I am made of steel wool and whiskey.

I am easy to find and am willing to help you in whatever way I can.

Speaking Engagements

 * Wikimania 2014: State of the Wiki, featured speaker
 * Wikimania 2014: The Athena Project: Where are We?
 * Wikimania 2014: Virtual Community Roundtable, panelist
 * Wikimania 2014: The Athena Project: Where are We?, speaker
 * Wikimania 2013: Flow: The future of collaboration, speaker
 * Wikimania 2013: Presentation clinic, presenter
 * Open Source Bridge 2013: The "Oh Shit" Graph: What We Can Learn From Wikipedia's Editor Decline Trend, speaker
 * Wikimania 2012: The Athena Project: Wikipedia in 2015, speaker
 * Wikimania 2012: Blacking out Wikipedia, panelist
 * Wikimania 2012: Engaging editors on Wikipedia: A roadmap of new features, panelist
 * Wikimania 2012: Engage or Persish, panelist
 * Open Source Bridge 2012: Identity, Reputation and Gratitude: Designing for a Community, speaker
 * Wikimania 2011: Identity, Reputation, and Gratitude, speaker
 * Wikimania 2011: Encouraging Participation in Wikimedia Projects, speaker

Here is a partial list of the things I am or have worked on:
 * about my work =

for comment/Account creation|Account Creation workflows]] (includes some visual design)
 * Winter - a Beta Feature that applies several changes to the default interface (Vector), including a sticky header and modified interactions
 * Prototype - built a functional, interactive prototype
 * Flow - a radical re-thinking of discussion and workflow management for MediaWiki sites
 * Prototype - built a functional, interactive prototype
 * Search - improvements and rethinking of MediaWiki search system
 * SecurePoll Redesign - making the SecurePoll extension more usable and less error-prone
 * Wikimedia Tool Labs - a redesign of the Tool Labs interface
 * Designed the blackout screen for the 2012 English Wikipedia anti-SOPA blackout
 * Served on a banner for the 2011 Wikimedia fundraiser, as "Wikipedia Programmer Brandon Harris"
 * Also did a Reddit "Ask Me Anything" as part of this
 * An essay about Collaborative Systems
 * Athena - a "universal" skin for Wikipedia, designed to work on mobile, tablet, and desktop resolutions and capabilities.
 * Glaucus - a mobile-focused, intermediate step towards Athena.
 * Echo - a notifications system.
 * New Editor Engagement (formerly -1 to 100) - a master project working on editor retention.
 * Article Creation Landing System - a modified workflow for article creation
 * Mark as Helpful - working towards 360 degree feedback.
 * New Page Triage - a tool to make the process of New Page Patrol better
 * Article Creation Workflow - various fixes to make article creation better and saner
 * Reference Tooltips - a simple change to make viewing references easier
 * Timestamp Position Modification - trying to make the documents appear more alive
 * MoodBar - a tool designed to encourage new user feedback.
 * Feedback Dashboard - a tool to view and respond to new user feedback (sent via MoodBar)
 * WikiLove - a small tool for awarding "WikiLove"
 * Quick Comments - a small feature designed to make it easier to leave messages for users
 * Global Profile- a system designed to ease difficulty for page patrol, reduce "bite", and encourage identity within the projects
 * Interlanguage Design Pass
 * 2011 Q2 UploadWizard Design Pass
 * LiquidThreads redesign - a rethinking on collaborative systems
 * Personal Image Filter proposal - a board proposal concerning controversial content
 * MediaWiki Style Guide - A discontinued work regarding MediaWiki interface consistency (replaced by Agora)
 * Article Feedback Tool, Phase 1 - Phase one of the Article Feedback Tool
 * Article Feedback Tool, Phase 2 - Phase 2 of the Article Feedback Tool. (Design was modified heavily during implementation).
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 * Pending Changes Design Modifications - Some usability enhancements for Pending Changes (not all were implemented)
 * The MediaWiki installer
 * TradeTrack - a tool for WMF trademark management

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 * contact me =
 * E-mail: bharris@undefinedwikimedia.org
 * On irc.freenode.net (as 'jorm') in the channels #mediawiki, #wikimedia-dev and #wikipedia-en
 * On MediaWiki.org as Jorm (WMF)
 * On the English Wikipedia as Jorm as a volunteer
 * [//www.facebook.com/jormosaurusrex Facebook]
 * [//www.linkedin.com/pub/brandon-harris/13/444/829 LinkedIn Profile]
 * [//twitter.com/jorm jorm] on Twitter
 * My category on commons