Presentations

LukeW is consistently a top-rated speaker at Web conferences and companies around the world.

Input: Moving Beyond Forms

An overview of how Web applications can collect input, through both mobile devices and desktop software, without forcing people to complete a lengthy sequential forms.

9/20/2010Design For Mobile -Chicago, IL
9/16/2010UPA-DC Chapter -Washington, DC
7/12/2010Web App Masters Tour -Seattle, WA
6/10/2010eBay Inc. -San Jose, CA
6/7/2010Web App Masters Tour -Philadelphia, PA
4/30/2010Netflix Distinguished Speaker Series -Los Gatos, CA
4/27/2010Web App Masters Tour -Minneapolis, MN
3/23/2010Web App Masters Tour -San Diego, CA
2/24/2010Meebo, Inc. -Mountain View, CA
2/17/2010Silicon Valley IxDA Event -Sunnyvale, CA

First Person User Interfaces

The design challenges and opportunities of interfaces that allow people to interact with the real world as they are currently experiencing it.

5/12/2010User Experience Lisbon -Lisbon, Portugal

Web Form Design in Action

The latest applications of rich Web form interactions including: dynamic help systems, inline validation, input masks, and more.

12/8/2009An Event Apart -San Francisco, CA
10/13/2009An Event Apart -Chicago, IL
5/4/2009An Event Apart -Seattle, WA

The Impact of Social Models

An overview of the different ways social relationships are modeled in online software and they effect online behavior.

9/15/2009IDEA 2009 -Toronto, Canada

Modern Web Form Design

Web form design best practices illustrated through a redesign of a typical form's primary path to completion, label alignment, primary & secondary actions, organization, error messaging, inline validation, and more.

3/15/2010MIX10 -Las Vegas, NV
7/23/2009Silicon Valley Ruby Meetup -Mountain View, CA
5/12/2009Creative Good Council -Online Webcast
4/22/2009Annual Webmaster Forum -Champaign, IL
3/20/2009MIX09 -Las Vegas, NV
2/17/2009East Bay Ruby Meetup -Berkeley, CA
12/10/2008ArcSight Corporation -Cupertino, CA
11/13/2008Future Practice Webinar -Online Webcast

Parti & The Design Sandwich

A structure to enable interaction designers to move toward a holistic product design in the face of many stakeholders, cross-functional groups, and diverse audiences.

6/15/2009UX London -London, England
4/19/2009Web App Summit -Newport Beach, CA
2/5/2009Interaction 09 -Vancouver, Canada

Influencing Strategy by Design

This course empowers designers by giving them tools to impact strategy by illuminating important decision-drivers like market or user research, web analytics, financials, and product reports.

4/19/2010Salesforce Inc. -San Francisco, CA
4/7/2010IA Summit -Phoenix, AZ
6/15/2009UX London -London, England
10/15/2008Microsoft Corporation -Seattle, WA
1/28/2008VizThink -San Francisco, CA
11/17/2007Innvolution Master Academy -Sunnyvale, CA
7/26/2007Yahoo! Design Week -Sunnyvale, CA
10/11/2006User Interface 11 -Cambridge, MA

Product Excellence Principles

What defines great products and what organizations can do to deliver product excellence.

5/17/2010Creative Good Council -Online Webcast
3/13/2009ZURB Soapbox -Campbell, CA

Visual Communication for the Web

The importance of utilizing visual organization to communicate central messages, guide actions, and present information on the Web.

2/24/2009VizThink -San Jose, CA

Content page design best practices

How content pages can be better optimized for the Web ecosystem.

10/13/2008User Interface 13 -Cambridge, MA
10/8/2008Berkeley STC Chapter -Berkeley, CA
4/10/2008IA Summit -Miami, FL

Web Application Page Hierarchy

The importance of visual hierarchy, visual principles for developing effective hierarchies, and utilizing applications of visual hierarchy to communicate central messages, guide actions, and present information.

8/18/2008An Event Apart -San Francisco, CA
6/23/2008An Event Apart -Boston, MA
3/18/2008WritersUA Conference -Portland, OR
2/13/2008Webstock 2008 -Wellington, New Zealand
5/4/2007WebVisions -Portland, OR
1/22/2007Web App Summit -Monterey, CA

Filching Design: When the Shoe Fits

A discussion of the motivations, benefits, and drawbacks of reusing code or design elements (interactions, layouts, colors, etc.) found online.

3/8/2008South by Southwest -Austin, TX

The Business Value of Design

A discussion about the many considerations behind creating business value through design.

3/6/2008Microsoft MIX08 -Las Vegas, NV

The Shifting Role of Design

An overview of why design skills, methodologies, and deliverables have increasing value for companies in today's global, networked economy.

2/10/2010Thunderbird School of Global Management -Online Webcast
7/11/2007Computer-Human Interaction Forum of Oregon -Portland, OR
3/31/2007AIGA Student Portfolio Forum -Wichita, KS
12/6/2006BayCHI -Sunnyvale, CA
9/28/2006SHiFT 2006 -Lisbon, Portugal

Get Unstuck

Ways to keep teams from getting stuck in process, project, and people muck.

4/30/2007Microsoft MIX07 -Las Vegas, NV
3/12/2007South by Southwest -Austin, TX

Usability 2.0

Design considerations that arise out of recent shifts on the Web and their impact on usability processes, metrics, and team

4/11/2007Silicon Valley Web Guild -Mountain View, CA

Design Patterns: Defining and Sharing Web Interface Design Languages

How to put design patterns to use within Web application design.

3/12/2007South by Southwest -Austin, TX

Social Web Application Design

Interaction design for socially mediated and participatory information systems.

3/24/2006IA Summit -Vancouver, Canada

Dogma Free Design

A discussion about the role of design within an industry traditionally dominated by engineering and business processes and constraints.

3/14/2006South by Southwest -Austin, TX

Web Application Solutions: A Designer’s Guide

An evaluation of some of the most popular Web application presentation layer solutions available today

6/28/2005Adobe Inc. -San Jose, CA

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