About the DC Design Talks
The DC Design Talks are the first part of the DC Talks series, low-cost quarterly one-day conferences for DC-area web professionals. It is designed (hah) for experienced interactive designers who specialize in user experience, flash, web standards, or other web-related disciplines based on best practices.
The goal is not to make a profit, but instead to offer area professionals the opportunity to learn from and interact with some of the region's best speakers and practitioners of design.
About the Organizers
If you're active in the DC web scene, there's a pretty good chance you already know the organizers. In the summer of 2007, Jason Garber and M. Jackson Wilkinson took a leading role in organizing BarCamp DC, which brought together around 100 area web professionals for a great day of knowledge sharing. Jason leads one of the area's most active groups, Refresh DC, which gets similar attendance at monthly meetings related to design and front-end development. Jackson likes to think he helps out with that.
M. Jackson Wilkinson
Jackson is an Internet Strategist at Viget Labs — if you don't know what that means, don't worry, no one else does either. He works with startups to craft their online strategies, shape the user experience, and help turn good ideas into pleasurable web applications. He's worked in the past as both a designer and a developer, and brings both of those disciplines into his user experience work. Jackson speaks about a wide range of topics, from Microformats to the Mobile Web to Agile Design Techniques, at conferences in the US and in Europe, and would love to speak at your conference too. He's the developer and designer behind The Humble Gourmand, has a few nifty little web apps on the way, and hosts his oft-neglected blog at Jounce.net.
Jason Garber
An avid photographer and part-time musician, Jason has worked with companies as small as 8 and as large as 8000. When he's not building kickass websites, he's probably organizing the monthly Refresh DC meetup. Jason can currently be found manning the controls at Mixx as a User Interface Architect.
