Public Speaking

I've spoken about startups and technology at events like

Agile Alliance's Agile Conference, Agile Experience Design meetup, AgileUX NYC Conference, Asbury Agile, Fashion 2.0 Startup Showcase, Future of Web Design (London), Future of Web Design (New York), the Lean Startup Conference, Lean Startup Machine (judge), Lean UX NYC Conference, Lean UX London, New York Tech Meetup, North Brooklyn Breakfast Club, NYU Entrepreneurship Accelerator, O'Reilly's Web 2.0 Expo, The Product Group, Startup Weekend, and others.

Selected slide decks

Pro tip: these decks look best when viewed in Chrome using View > Enter Presentation Mode. Navigate using arrow keys. Decks were mostly built using Slidedown and MDPress and lately, remark.

Version Control Will Save Your (Product Design & UX) Life from Agile Alliance 2016 in Atlanta, GA.
Towards A Theory & Methodology Of Test-Driven Design (Now With 100% More Pair-design!!) from Agile Alliance 2015 in Washington, DC.
Design Thinking is for You with Ari Font-Lijos and Jeff Patton from at the Carnegie Mellon University Software Engineering Institute SATURN 2015 conference in Baltimore, MD. Video here.
Version 2 of Towards a Theory & Methodology of Test-Driven Design from LeanUX NYC 2015 in my hometown of Brooklyn, NY.
Towards a Theory & Methodology of Test-Driven Design from Moblile Central Europe, Warsaw, Poland, 2015. Video here.
Pair Design for Fun and Profit, from the Agile Asbury 2014 conference.
Subjective Design and Objective Design, from the LeanUX NYC 2014 conference.
Sustainable Pace, Agile, and the Big Design Refactor, from the Balanced Team 2013 conference. Video here, Kate Rutter's wonderful SketchNotes here.
Code Literacy for Non-Programmers, from the Agile 2013 conference.
Sustainable Pace, Agile, and the Big Design Refactor, from the Lean UX NYC 2013 conference. You can also read the blog version of the Big Design Refactor.
Designers Should Adopt Sustainable Pace, from deLUX SXSWi 2013, the Lean User Experience party at SxSW.
Code Literacy for Non-Technical Founders, from the Vassar College Venture Co-op.
Spike Driven Development, from the NYC Compass & SASS Meetup and RubyConf East. A longer explanation in blog form here.
7 Tips for Practicing UX Design that I Learned from Agile Development at Method Design.
Code Literacy for Designers from the Future of Web Design, London 2012.
What Is Lean UX? from the Lean UX Roundtable.
Code Literacy for Lean Teams from my AgileUX NYC talk. Video here.
Code Management for Designers from my Future of Web Design talk.
Practicing UX in an Agile Environment Using Adobe Illustrator from my Agile Experience Design Meetup talk.
7 Tips for Practicing UX in an Agile Environment from my Balanced Team Conference 2011 talk.

Things people say

@jonathanpberger my favourite presentation so far, thank you! #mceconf
— Kamila Wojciechowska (@kamelury) February 5, 2015

@kb2bkb @jonathanpberger really enjoyed this talk, I think it would be exceptionally valuable at my office for the design team.
— Carl Nelson (@CarlNelson) April 15, 2015

I just heard the simplest and most compelling case for test driven development from a designer (@jonathanpberger). #LeanUX15
— Scott Buchanan (@thescottsb) April 15, 2015

Really enjoying @jonathanpberger and his frank, practical discussion on design. #LeanUX14
— Tonya McCarley (@tmccarley) April 11, 2014

Loving a super coherent, balanced, positive talk from @jonathanpberger #LeanUX14
— Spencer Turner (@spencerturner) April 11, 2014

Refreshing perspective: The objectivity of testable UI design versus the subjectivity of branding. #LeanUX14 @jonathanpberger
— Chris Alvarez (@longlivetheux) April 11, 2014

@jonathanpberger we really enjoyed your talk! Even forgot the fact that we were half freezing to death at #agile2013 @loreigh
— みどり春丽 (@MidoriChunLi) August 6, 2013

@jonathanpberger 1of d best talks of the day. As a software engineer who cares about ux n design,know what it means. #brilliant #LeanUXNYC
— Amrita Aviyente (@amrita_ux) April 11, 2013

Word!! RT @Jaredac: @johnathanpberger That was the lean / agile design talk I've been waiting for for 5 years. #leanuxnyc
— Matias Seijas (@mattiseijas) April 11, 2013

What a great talk from @jonathanpberger at #agileuxnyc. Inspiring report on an ongoing a learning journey.
— Josh Seiden (@jseiden) February 25, 2012

RT @geoffbrown: Couldn't agree more with @jonathanpberger on the fundamentals of code literacy requirements for designers. #AgileUXNYC
— David Gowrie (@luispunchy) February 25, 2012

@jonathanpberger great talk, hilarious!
— LaiYee Lori (@LaiYeeLori) February 25, 2012

RT @todd_coleman: .@jonathanpberger is killing this presentation. Reminds me of how I started learning code. Really great stuff. #agileuxnyc
— lane halley (@thinknow) February 25, 2012

Yes! @jonathanpberger demos live mocks and the Chrome inspector using his own slides #agileuxnyc pic.twitter.com/gPn4Yj0d
— Alec Perkins (@alecperkins) February 25, 2012

My favorite so far: https://t.co/ShNLsif2 @jonathanpberger great personal stories! @agileuxnyc
— lane halley (@thinknow) February 25, 2012

Great talk by @jonathanpberger on code literacy for designers at #agileuxnyc
— Tom Hughes (@tomhuze) February 25, 2012

Conflicted abt "Code Literacy" session. @jonathanpberger has some epic/controversial one liners. Nevertheless, I am entertained. #agileuxnyc
— Susan (@smoozle) February 25, 2012

Awesome talk on the importance of code literacy and designer sustainability from @jonathanpberger #agileuxnyc pic.twitter.com/WNtgCxaO
— Tami Evnin (@tamiiiiiiiiiiii) February 25, 2012

Selected Videos

Towards a Theory & Methodology of Test-Driven Design from the Agile Alliance 2015 conference.

Design Thinking is for You with Ari Font Lijos and Jeff Patton from the Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute SATURN 2015 conference.

A Theory & Methodology Of Test-Driven Design - Jonathan Berger from LeanUXNYC 2015 on Vimeo.

Towards a Theory and Methodology of Test-Driven Design from Mobile Commons Europe on YouTube.

Sustainable Pace, Agile, and The Big Design Refactor from Balanced Team on Vimeo.