Jason Wehmhoener

Current

Interaction Designer at Cisco

Past

Web Developer/Designer at Yahoo!
Interaction Designer at Google
Information Architect at Seagate

Interaction Designer at AGIS.com
UI Designer at Citrix
Web Developer/Designer at Cisco
Web Developer at Klein Design (Sole Proprietorship)
College Web Coordinator at De Anza College
Web Developer at Social Venture Partners
Web Developer/Designer at Lutris, Inc.

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Education

Longview Community College
University of Missouri-Columbia

Connections

78 connections

Industry

Internet

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My Portfolio

Jason Wehmhoener’s Summary

For ten years I have been helping large and small companies execute a user-centered design process.

Jason Wehmhoener’s Specialties:

I provide seasoned expertise in interaction design, information architecture and frontend engineering.

Jason Wehmhoener’s Experience

Interaction Designer

Cisco

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; CSCO; Computer Networking industry)

April 2008 — Present (7 months)

Wrote interaction design guidelines for suite of reusable components used in over 50 Cisco products and applications. Created complete Omnigraffle stencil toolkit used by interaction designers throughout Cisco for the creation of high fidelity wireframes that accurately convey the Cisco User Experience Standards our team published.
Web Developer/Designer

Yahoo!

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; YHOO; Internet industry)

October 2005 — April 2008 (2 years 7 months)

Developed a system for reusable promotional "Feature Cue" units: targeted, contextual, and relevant DHTML overlay used to promote new or improved Yahoo! product features. Designed and built an asset management system with over 100 internal users. Strategy, interaction design and web development for a microsite supporting Yahoo! Toolbar engagement marketing. User research and prototyping to explore techniques for more effective promotion of major new Yahoo! products and features. Developed Flash prototypes. Strategy and web development for Yahoo!'s New User Program. Visual design for Yahoo! Small Business landing page. Strategy and web development for multiple landing page projects, contributing to the Platform UED landing page guidelines. Live testing (A/B and other methodologies) has demonstrated a large reproducible lift in conversion when these guidelines are adhered to.
Interaction Designer

Google

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; GOOG; Internet industry)

December 2007 — January 2008 (2 months)

Created multiple versions and iterations of prototypes of new DHTML interactions for Google Maps usability studies. Created many wireframes used to explore future interaction design direction for Google Maps.
Information Architect

Seagate

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; STX; Computer Hardware industry)

February 2007 — June 2007 (5 months)

Adapted the Seagate.com information architecture to create a scalable content framework for the purpose of publishing feature marketing content. Created a sitemap showing how feature marketing content would be integrated into Seagate.com. Created a series of wireframes used to solicit stakeholder feedback and as a reference for implementation efforts.
Interaction Designer

AGIS.com

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)

January 2007 — May 2007 (5 months)

Working from sketches provided by the Creative Director, created multiple iterations of wireframes used for soliciting stakeholder feedback and refining the site design. Created wireframes that express the visual hierarchy and organization of navigation and content within each of the sites' page types. Prototyped the interaction design for search flows within the site for use in usability tests. Created redlines that document the visual design to assist developers in their goal of achieving a visually consistent implementation.
UI Designer

Citrix

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; ctxs; Computer Software industry)

December 2006 — March 2007 (4 months)

Created multiple mocks for exploration of potential visual design direction for Citrix desktop sidebar applications. Created the final production visual design for a desktop sidebar application that surfaces the most important information, resources and tools necessary for working through an emergency. Created the visual design for the web-based emergency management application that allowed for the administration of resources associated with emergency scenarios.
Web Developer/Designer

Cisco

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; csco; Computer Networking industry)

January 2004 — January 2005 (1 year 1 month)

Created a site architecture that optimizes navigation. Created a structured vocabulary that will allow new content to be reused throughout the site. Collaborated with the UED team to establish, evolve, and adhere to design patterns that will be reused throughout the company. Extended the in-house content management system to make use of the structured vocabulary. Built the component templates used in the website redesign. Organized and contributed to the redesign implementation effort. Designed, implemented and maintained a variety of intranet Web sites and tools, including the Office of the President intranet site, a graphical reporting tool, and RSS news feeds and archives.
Web Developer
Klein Design (Sole Proprietorship)

(Sole Proprietorship; 1-10 employees; Design industry)

March 2003 — November 2003 (9 months)

Designed and implemented Web sites (using HTML, CSS, JavaScript and PHP), email blasts and Flash presentations.
College Web Coordinator

De Anza College

(Educational Institution; 5001-10,000 employees; Higher Education industry)

June 2001 — July 2002 (1 year 2 months)

Redesigned the DeAnza College website in accordance with Section 508 accessibility requirements. Created a site architecture that reflected the needs of the user segments that use the De Anza College website. Designed global navigation and created audience specific landing pages. Established guidelines and processes for the web team. Created reusable templates that allowed non-technical authors to publish content that complies with design and accessibility requirements. Improved website reliability and testing capability by separating development and production web server environments and implementing consistent push procedures. Deployed an email server, web based mailing list manager, online discussion forums and a search engine. Coordinated usability testing of redesigned De Anza College website.
Web Developer

Social Venture Partners

(Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Non-Profit Organization Management industry)

July 2000 — September 2000 (3 months)

Provided research regarding comprehensive web-based knowledge management and customer relationship management systems. Implemented custom PHP/MySQL content management system.
Web Developer/Designer

Lutris, Inc.

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)

August 1999 — July 2000 (1 year)

Defined Lutris' HTML, CSS and XMLC web development guidelines for dynamic Web applications using Enhydra. Collaborated with management and engineering staff to optimize web development workflow. Hired and trained web developers.