Todd Wilkens

Todd Wilkens is a senior practitioner and manager of Adaptive Path's Austin, Texas office. Thanks to over a decade of experience in research and design, Todd holds a passionate belief that by truly understanding people, we can create compelling product and service experiences for users and real value for businesses.

Professional Background

Todd's research, strategy, and design experience ranges from online communities to brick-and-mortar retail stores and spans a wide variety of audiences including youth, religion, and culture. He has worked on projects for a diverse group of clients including large multi-channel media organizations and Internet start-ups. He is adept at working with people from different backgrounds to synthesize product, business, technology, and customer needs into cohesive strategies and designs.

Past clients and employers include MySpace, Epinions, HGTV, Microsoft, and PayCycle.

With academic training in sociology, information science, and computer science, Todd is well-versed in social science theory and a wide-ranging toolkit of methods from ethnography and interviewing to statistical analysis and eye-tracking. Todd publishes and speaks regularly on design research and human-centered design generally. He also teaches courses and workshops in design research, interaction design, information architecture, and sociology at professional events as well as at several universities and colleges.

Past Appearances

May 30
Todd Wilkins presented at the Big (D)esign Conference in Dallas, TX.

May 11-14
Todd Wilkens will be teaching at the UX Intensive Workshop in Berlin, Germany.

August 12 - 15
Todd Wilkens presented at UX Week in San Francisco, CA

April 22 - 25
Todd Wilkens presented at Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco, CA.

Feb 19 - 22
Todd Wilkens presented at UXI in San Francisco, CA

November 12-15, 2007
Todd Wilkens presented at Adaptive Path's UX Intensive conference in Vancouver, BC.

August 13-16, 2007
Todd Wilkens spoke at UX Week in Washington, D.C.

June 18-21, 2007
Todd Wilkens presented at UX Intensive in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

May 3-4, 2007
Todd Wilkens presented at Webvisions Conference in Portland, OR.

April 23-26, 2007
Todd Wilkens presented at UX Intensive in Chicago, IL.

February 12-13, 2007
Todd Wilkens presented at MX San Francisco in San Francisco, CA.

October 27, 2006
Todd Wilkens spoke at User Research Friday in San Francisco.

October 6-7, 2006
Todd Wilkens spoke at About, With, and For in Chicago, IL.

September 24-26, 2006
Todd Wilkens attended the EPIC (Ethnographic Praxis in Industry Conference) in Portland, OR.