Brandon Harris
From May 2010 until November 2014, I was an employee of the Wikimedia Foundation. My title was "Senior Designer." My user account (now locked) was Jorm (WMF).
I am still easily findable and am still willing to help you in whatever way I can.
I can be emailed at brandon
kingofnovember.com
Foundation Works
While at the Foundation, I worked on:
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
Projects
- 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).
- Account Creation workflows (includes some visual design)
- Pending Changes Design Modifications - Some usability enhancements for Pending Changes (not all were implemented)
- The MediaWiki installer
- TradeTrack - a tool for WMF trademark management