JenStrickland.design listening for the right “it”
before we build it right

writing & Speaking

“Jen is a consummate professional. She is a superb designer with an in-depth understanding of the code and other underpinnings that make interactive design work as well as it can look. She’s also a helluva good writer!”

Recent Talks

• The Context of You, World IA Day, Richmond
• Three talks at CSUN Assistive Technology Conference, Anaheim, CA, March 19–22, 2024
  • Fight Climate Change with Digital Accessibility, PowerPoint 6.3MB slides on Github
  • Compounding Taxes: Impacts of Disability and Intersectionality, PowerPoint 9.1MB slides on Github
  • Fireside Chat on Equitable Accessibility, broadcast globally on CSUN ATC YouTube, Wednesday, March 20, at 1:20 PM Pacific
• Save Our World with Progressive Enhancement & Accessibility at Inclusive Design 24, September 20, 2023
• Save Our World with Progressive Enhancement & Accessibility at Accessibility Toronto (A11yTO), October 20, 2023

Writing

I write on Medium.

• What’s your process? Here’s mine.
• What does a designer actually do?
• We don’t need experts on stages.

Past Talks

• The True Cost of Our Unknown Unknowns and Corners Cut
  March 4, 2023 World Information Architecture Day, Richmond, VA
• Save Our World With Accessibility & Progressive Enhancement
  March 13–17, 2023 CSUN Assistive Technology Conference, Anaheim, CA
• Adopting a “Design By” Method
  Inaugural Civic Design Conference from Rosenfeld Media, December 2021
• Ohana for Digital Service Design (or Baking Accessibility into your Digital Product Lifecycle)
  Digital.gov 2020 Government UX Summit: July 28, 2020
• You’re Killing Your Users!
  Numerous events, including Black Code Collective at The Washington Post, 2018
• Design for Performance & Accessibility
  2016–2017 at Akamai Technologies and other organizations
• Design for Developers
  2013, Lunch & Learn at Cogo Labs
• Create Professional-looking Buttons with CSS3
  February 9, 2011, at Boston PHP Meet Up
• Resources
  AI & Machine Learning, UXPA Boston, #UXPABOS17 advanced discussion roundtable facilitator

Photography

In years past I won awards for my photography, and still love to take pictures. I practice what I call walking meditation with photos.