Elliot Jay Stocks

Elliot Jay Stocks

Elliot Jay Stocks is an independent designer and illustrator, known for his mould-breaking style. His work is frequently featured in online and offline publications, showcased on various inspiration websites, and used as an example of how accessible web design can still look beautiful. His extensive portfolio includes work for clients such as The Virgin Group, WordPress.com, The Beatles, Blue Flavor, Twiistup, EMI Records, and Carsonified. Elliot is a regular face at design conferences around the globe, taking to the stage as both speaker and workshop host. He is also the author of the best-selling book Sexy Web Design (SitePoint, 2009) and on a semi-regular basis he writes about design trends, issues, and techniques for industry-leading publications such as .Net (known as Practical Web Design outside the UK), Computer Arts, and Computer Arts Projects.

Brendan Dawes

Magnetic North

Brendan Dawes is Creative Director for magneticNorth, an interactive design company based in Manchester, UK. Over the years he's helped to realise projects for a wide range of brands including Diesel, BBC, Fox Kids, Channel 4, Disney, Benetton, Kellogg's and Coca-Cola. Ever since his first experiences with the humble ZX81 back in the early eighties, Brendan has continued to explore the interplay of people, code, design and art both in his role leading the team at mN and on brendandawes.com, a personal space where he publishes random thoughts, toys and projects created from an eclectic mix of digital and analog objects.

Dan Rubin

Sidebar Creative

Dan Rubin is a highly accomplished user interface designer and usability consultant, with over ten years of experience as a leader in the fields of web standards and usability, specifically focusing on the use of (X)HTML and CSS to streamline development and improve accessibility.

His passion for all things creative and artistic isn't a solely selfish endeavor either—you'll frequently find him waxing educational about a cappella jazz and barbershop harmony, interface design, usability, web standards, typography, and graphic design in general.

Dan Cederholm

SimpleBits

Dan Cederholm is a Web designer, author, husband, and father living in Salem, Massachusetts. He’s the founder of SimpleBits, a tiny design studio. A recognized expert in the field of standards-based Web design, Dan has worked with Google, MTV, Yahoo, ESPN, Fast Company, Blogger, Odeo, and others. He embraces flexible, adaptable design using Web standards throughout his design work, writing, and speaking. Dan is the author of two bestselling books: Bulletproof Web Design: Improving flexibility and protecting against worst-case scenarios with XHTML and CSS, Second Edition, and Web Standards Solutions: The Markup and Style Handbook. Dan runs the popular blog, also called SimpleBits, where he writes articles and commentary on the Web, technology, and life. He also plays a mean ukulele and occasionally wears a baseball cap.

Joshua Davis

Joshua Davis

Joshua Davis is a New York based artist, designer, and technologist producing both public and private work for companies, collectors, and institutions. Since 1995, Joshua Davis has been using technology and computers as a medium to create projects that a recent Apple Pro Profile touted as infinitely interesting.

Sarah Parmenter

You Know Who Design

Sarah was brought up on computers from an early age and always knew her career would be in IT. The story of exactly how she came to be a web designer is a long-winded one, and quite surreal, but in 2003 she took the plunge and started her own business, and hasn't looked back since.

Now 26, Sarah has been lucky enough to meet some great remote colleagues and web industry peers over the years, and regularly makes contributions to online web design related websites such as Please Critique Me. Sarah also contributes written features to printed media, including .net magazine, and speaks at web design conferences and to local students on a variety of web design-related topics.

Thomas McLeod

Page Lime

Thomas McLeod is El Presidente of Imaginary Feet, a web application development company in Washington, DC that specialises in web based software and iPhone app development. Before starting with his current company, PageLime, Tom ran a media production company where he designed, produced and engineered rap albums. He also spent many years as a freelance web designer (and generally avoiding having a boss.)

Niamh Phelan

iQ Content

Niamh is the primary Web Analytics consultant with iQ Content, a leading user experience design consultancy based in Dublin, Ireland.

Working with brands such as Vodafone, Enterprise Ireland and Permanent TSB, Niamh has made web analytics a primary part of the UX design process, using analytics to drive measured improvements on websites.

Brad Haynes

ParamoreRedd

Brad Haynes has a passion for strategy, design and development. Currently Creative Director at Paramore|Redd Online Marketing, he's become known for his strategy and design and has worked with a wide range of clients including FedEx, Hilton, Campaign Monitor, CMT, Healthways and Gary Player - just to name a few. His obsession with beautiful, simple layouts combined with his understanding of the big picture has led him to speak about interactive marketing and write a number of articles published in .net and Web Designer Magazine. He enjoys meeting and working with smart people who are driven to do things the right way.

Paul Boag

Headscape

Paul Boag has been working on the web since 1993. He is a user experience consultant for Headscape Ltd, a web design agency that he founded back in 2002. Paul also produces and hosts the longest running and popular web design podcast at boagworld. He is regularly speaker at conferences and author of the Website Owners Manual.

Molly Holzschlag

MollyDotCom

Molly works to define and create effective organizational standards and best practices to thousands of developers and designers working the Web via her 35 books; countless articles; conference workshops, sessions and keynotes; and consulting. With 20 years of online experience, Molly's strengths lie not only in the technologies and practices of today, but in understanding the complexities of how challenges emerged, and ways in which to manage those challenges in the rapid evolution of today's Web.

Relly Annett-Baker

Poppy Copy

Relly Annett-Baker lives in Brighton with her husband, Paul Annett, and their two-year-old son. As a result she thrives on the sea air and can be guaranteed to stand on Lego at least once a day. As well as being a copywriter, she is employed as live-in domestic staff by two cats who often supervise her typing and make editorial suggestions such as 'I think it's dinner time'. When not being purred into submission she writes copy and content for clients, magazine articles for titles as diverse as .net magazine and Scrapbook Inspirations and is currently writing a children's novel.

Bruce Lawson

Opera

Bruce evangelises Open Web Standards for Opera. He's a member of the Web Standards Project's Accessibility Task Force and the W3C Mobile Best Practices Working Group. Previously, he was technical lead for the Solicitors Regulation Authority site. He's been a tarot card reader in Istanbul, a volunteer pharmacist in Calcutta, a Bollywood movie extra in Mumbai and English tutor to a Princess' daughter in Thailand. Nowadays, he blogs at www.brucelawson.co.uk, is training for his blue belt in kickboxing and drinks too much Guinness.

Simon Collison

Colly.com

Simon is a freelance web designer, developer, author, speaker, and consultant with over a decade of experience at the sharp end.

His last big adventure saw him co-founding Erskine Design back in 2006, and the agency was runner-up in the .Net Awards Design Agency Of The Year category in 2009.

Simon recently left Erskine to pursue new and exciting challenges, which he can't talk about yet.

Robin Christopherson

AbilityNet

After a degree in Engineering at Cambridge and working as an IT instructor for the Royal National Institute for the Blind (RNIB), Robin was a founding member of AbilityNet in 1998. Robin now manages AbilityNet's Web Consultancy services – heading a team that is globally acclaimed as experts in accessibility auditing, disabled user testing and designing attractive websites that are both accessible and easy to use by all. Despite being blind, Robin uses a computer very effectively by relying on speech output to access the full range of mainstream software including email and the internet. He has a first-hand appreciation of the importance of good web design practice to accessibility.

Remy Sharp

Remy Sharp

Remy Sharp is a developer, speaker, blogger, author of upcoming jQuery for Designers (Manning) and co-author of Introduction to HTML5 (New Riders). He is also organises the Full Frontal JavaScript Conference and is one of the curators of HTML5 Doctor.

jQuery team member (developer relations, formally evangelism) and the developer on a fistful of JavaScript related apps, Remy loves his JavaScript and he is keen as mustard to share it with other developers and designers through teaching and writing.

Gavin Strange

Gavin Strange is a 26 years young manchild from Leicester, now living in beautiful Bristol. He works as the Senior Online Designer at Aardman Animations by day, and by night he indulges in his other graphic design obessions, going under the name of JamFactory. He also started and is part of the Xynthetic Family. The Xyn is a creative collective of artists, designers, skaters, photographers & film makers, all collaborating on various projects and exhibitions.

Jam Factory

Jon Hicks

Jon Hicks is highly regarded web and print designer based in Oxford. Jon is most widely known for his personal website - Hicksdesign - where he regularly writes about web standards, CSS and browsers.

As well as producing a range of successful browser resources, Jon has also produced logos for Firefox and Thunderbird. Towards the end of 2008 he joined Opera Software as Senior Designer.

Hicks Design

Peter Lubbers

Peter Lubbers is the Director of Documentation and Training at Kaazing where he oversees all aspects of documentation and training. Peter is the co-author of the Apress book Pro HTML5 Programming and teaches HTML5 training courses. An HTML5 and WebSocket enthusiast, Peter frequently speaks at international events.

Kaazing

Denise Jacobs

After having worked with the web in a range of capacities, including web application localization, web project management, and instructing web design and development, Denise R. Jacobs is finally doing what she likes best: being a web designer, speaker, educator, and writer. She is the author of The CSS Detective Guide as well as a contributing author to Interact with Web Standards: A Holistic Approach to Web Design (both published by PeachPit/New Riders, 2010). To stay out of trouble, Denise is a web solutions consultant in Miami, Florida; develops curricula for WaSP InterAct, and is on the organizing committee of Social Media Club South Florida.

Denise Jacobs

Sandi Wassmer

Sandi Wassmer is the co-founder and Managing Director of digital agency Copious. She is rather consumed with making the Internet more accessible and creating great Internet experiences for all. Sandi always asserts how fortunate she is to be able to realise her vision of Inclusivity through the work that Copious does in building beautiful, accessible and usable websites. When Sandi isn’t working her socks off, she writes, tweets, blogs and advocates about a whole range of issues from disability rights to accessibility and social inclusion.

Copious

Aarron Walter

Aarron Walter is the author of Building Findable Websites: Web Standards, SEO, and Beyond (New Riders, 2008) and the lead user experience designer for MailChimp. For more than a decade Aarron has been busy building websites for his clients, and teaching interactive design courses at colleges and universities in the US.

As a member of The Web Standards Project, Aarron leads the WaSP InterACT curriculum project, and he's a founding member of the Open Web Education Alliance, a W3C incubator group.

MailChimp

Aral Balkan

Aral Balkan is an independent interaction designer and developer with over a decade of experience in creating web, Flash, desktop, and mobile applications. His latest iPhone app, Feathers, was featured by Apple as "New and Notable" and reached #1 in the What's Hot list in the US. It is often cited as an example of beautiful, emotional design. Aral aims to build beautiful, empathic apps that create joy and delight. He shares his experiences, frustrations, and joys via his blog, tweets, and the numerous keynotes and talks he gives around the world every year.

Aral Balkan