Brandon Harris
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Brandon Harris
Senior Designer, Wikimedia Foundation
"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
Upcoming
- Wikimania 2014, Keynote Speaker
Past
- 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
My work
Here is a partial list of the things I am or have worked on:
- Winter - a Beta Feature that applies several changes to the default interface (Vector), including a sticky header and modified interactiosn
- 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 work in progress regarding MediaWiki interface consistency
- 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
Disclaimer: I work for the Wikimedia Foundation, and this is the account I intend to use for edits or statements I make in that role. However, the Foundation does not vet all my activity, so edits, statements, or other contributions made by this account may not reflect the views of the Foundation.
Contact me
- E-mail: bharris
wikimedia.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
- LinkedIn Profile
- jorm on Twitter
- My category on commons
