Speakers

Mark Boulton

Mark Boulton is a graphic designer from the UK. He’s worked in Sydney, London and Manchester as an Art Director for clients such as the BBC, T-Mobile & British Airways. Mark now runs his own design consultancy. A stickler for applied typographic and design theory, Mark is an active member of the International Society of Typographic Designers and writes a design journal at markboulton.co.uk.

Mark will be presenting Five Simple Steps to Better Typography

Dan Cederholm

Dan Cederholm is a web designer and author living in Massachusetts. He’s the founder of SimpleBits, a tiny design studio.

A recognized expert in the field of standards-based web design, Dan co-founded the wine community site, Cork’d and has worked with Google, MTV, ESPN, Fast Company, Blogger, Odeo (and others), also collaborating with Happy Cog on selected projects. He embraces flexible, adaptable design using web standards through his client work, writing, and speaking.

Dan is the author of two best-selling books: Bulletproof Web Design (New Riders) and Web Standards Solutions (Friends of ED). Dan also runs a popular weblog where he writes articles and commentary on the web, technology and life. He also plays a mean ukulele.

Dan will be presenting Interface Design Juggling

Tantek Çelik

Tantek Çelik is Chief Technologist at Technorati where he leads the design and development of new standards and technologies. Prior to Technorati, he was a veteran representative to the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) for Microsoft, where he also helped lead the development of the award-winning Internet Explorer for Macintosh.

As co-founder of the microformats.org community and the Global Multimedia Protocols Group, as well as Steering Committee member of the Web Standards Project and invited expert to the W3C Cascading Style Sheets working group, Tantek is dedicated to advancing open standards and simpler data formats for the Web.

Tantek lives in San Francisco, and has Bachelor’s and Masters degrees in Computer Science from Stanford University, as well as a strong background in human interface and user centred design from his many years at Apple Computer. He shares his thoughts at tantek.com.

Tantek will be presenting Microformats, Building Blocks, and You

Joe Clark

Joe Clark lives in Toronto and did a lot of work in Web accessibility, like writing a book on the topic and serving, for some reason, on the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Working Group. He now goes where he is wanted and volunteers with the PDF/Universal Access Committee. He is supported by nearly 200 micropatrons as he fundraises for a research project unrelated to Web accessibility, the Open & Closed Project.

Joe will be presenting When Web Accessibility Is Not Your Problem

Andy Clarke

Andy Clarke has been working on the web for almost ten years. He is a visual web designer based in the UK and started his design consultancy Stuff and Nonsense in 1998. As lead designer and creative director, his clients include local and national businesses, charities and government bodies and he has designed for The British Heart Foundation, Disney Store UK, Save The Children and WWF UK.

Andy is a member of the Web Standards Project where he redesigned the organization’s web site in 2006. He is also an Invited Expert to the W3C’s CSS Working Group. Andy regularly speaks at workshops and conference events worldwide and is the author of Transcending CSS (New Riders).

Andy will be presenting Royale With Cheese

Simon Collison

Simon runs Erskine Design - an ethical web design and development agency based in Nottingham, with clients ranging from Pixelsurgeon to Frieze magazine. As lead web developer at Agenzia from 2002 to 2006, Simon worked on numerous web projects for major record labels & bands, artists & illustrators, businesses, community, and voluntary sector orgs, passionately ensuring everything complied with web standards and commons sense.

Simon writes books about web standards for Apress and Friends Of ED, does a bit of public speaking here and there, and will generally do anything for a biscuit and cup of tea. His long-standing, long-winded blog can be found at www.colly.com.

Simon will be presenting High-Noon Shoot-Out: Design vs. Implementation

Hannah Donovan

Hannah Donovan has been Head of Creative at London-based Last.fm since Feburary 2006. Originally from Canada’s icy north, Hannah obtained a Bachelor of Design from the University of Alberta where she cut her teeth on the web instead of going outside. Since then she’s worked on everything from academic open-source projects to multi-level national campaigns for clients such as Heinekin, Bic and Nokia. When not thinking about typography, usability and the social music revolution, Hannah draws monsters.

Hannah will be presenting For Example…

Jesse James Garrett

Jesse James Garrett is co-founder and President of Adaptive Path, a product experience firm based in San Francisco. Jesse’s tools and concepts have been published in more than a dozen languages and his book The Elements of User Experience is considered one of the seminal works on user-centered design. He is internationally recognized as a leading product experience thinker and has been featured in publications such as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and Business Week. In 2006, Jesse received WIRED Magazine’s Rave Award for Technology for coining the term Ajax.

Jesse will be presenting Beyond Ajax

Shawn Lawton Henry

Shawn Henry focuses her personal passion for accessibility on bringing together the needs of individuals and the goals of organisations in designing human-computer interfaces. She currently leads worldwide education and outreach activities promoting web accessibility for people with disabilities at the W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI). Previously she developed and implemented strategies to optimise user interface design for usability and accessibility with Fortune 500 companies, nonprofit organisations, education providers, and research centres.

Shawn’s recent book, Just Ask: Integrating Accessibility Throughout Design, is available online.

Shawn will be presenting Advancing Web Accessiblity

Jon Hicks

Jon Hicks is highly regarded web and print designer based in Oxford. Jon is most widely known for his personal website - Hicks Design - 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

Jon will be presenting How to be a Creative Sponge

Molly E. Holzschlag

Molly E. Holzschlag is a well-known Web standards advocate, instructor, and author. She is a steering member of the Web Standards Project (WaSP) and an invited expert at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). Among her thirty-plus books is the recent The Zen of CSS Design, co-authored with Dave Shea. The book artfully showcases the most progressive csszengarden.com designs. A popular and colourful individual, you can catch up with Molly’s blog at, where else? http://molly.com/.

Molly will be presenting The Broken World: Solving the Browser Problem Once and For All

Richard Ishida

As W3C Internationalization Activity Lead, Richard Ishida’s job is to ensure universal access to the Web, regardless of language, script or culture.

Richard is much in demand as a speaker, as his talks combine fascinating examples with clear and very practical recommendations. For 15 years his seminars and consultancy have helped developers around the world understand how to create websites, documents, and on-screen information that can be easily adapted for international users when the time comes. His talks draw on his earlier background in translation and interpreting, computational linguistics, translation tools, and his knowledge of numerous languages and writing systems.

Richard will be presenting Designing for International Users: Practical Tips

Jeremy Keith

Jeremy Keith is an Irish web developer living and working in Brighton, England with the web consultancy firm Clearleft.

Jeremy is a member of the Web Standards Project where he serves as joint leader of the DOM Scripting Task Force. He is author of "DOM Scripting", and "Bulletproof Ajax". His online home is adactio.com.

Jeremy will be presenting Bulletproof Ajax

Nate Koechley

Nate Koechley is a Yahoo! frontend engineer and designer based in San Francisco. When he’s not helping design and build the open-source Yahoo! User Interface (YUI) Library he edits the YUIBlog, promotes accessibility, defines Yahoo! browser support policies, writes occasionally at his personal blog, and presents at conferences around the globe.

Nate will be presenting High Performance Web Pages

Håkon Wium Lie

Håkon Wium Lie is the CTO of Opera Software. His job is to make sure Opera remains a better, smaller and faster browser than the one you know. Before joining Opera in 1999, Håkon worked at W3C where he was responsible for the development of Cascading Style Sheets, a concept he proposed while working with Tim Berners-Lee at CERN in 1994. Håkon holds a MS degree in Visual Studies from the MIT Media Lab, and a PhD from the University of Oslo. He is also a board member of YesLogic which makes the Prince web-to-PDF-through-CSS converter.

Håkon will be presenting 1 Web, Acid2 and CSS3

Drew McLellan

Drew McLellan is a web developer and author from just outside London, UK. With a broad background in many aspects of web design and development, Drew specialises in web applications. He spends his days working as a developer for Yahoo!, and his nights writing technical books and articles. He maintains personal web sites on the topics surrounding his work at allinthehead.com and, with a little help from his friends, at 24ways.org.

Drew is Group Lead of the Web Standards Project. He is the author of Dreamweaver MX Web Development for New Riders Publishing, and has published technical articles with O’Reilly Media’s XML.com, alistapart.com and Macromedia.com.

Drew will be presenting High-Noon Shoot-Out: Design vs. Implementation

Jason Santa Maria

Jason Santa Maria is a graphic designer from sunny Philadelphia, PA. He currently works as Creative Director for Happy Cog Studios and Art Director for A List Apart Magazine. He maintains a personal site where discussion of design, film, and sock monkeys can often be observed. His work has garnered him awards and pleasantries ranging from firm handshakes to forceful handshakes with a little hitting. Ever the design obsessif, Jason is known to take drunken arguments to fisticuffs over such frivolities as kerning and white space.

Jason will be presenting Diabolical Design: The Devil is in the Details

Dan Webb

Dan Webb is a Web Application Developer and renowned JavaScript expert. He has spoken at @media, RailsConf Europe and The Ajax Experience, written for A List Apart and Sitepoint and was the technical editor for Pro JavaScript Techniques (Apress). He is also well known for authoring the Low Pro extension for Prototype (and being a member of the newly formed Prototype Core Team) and co-authoring the Unobtrusive JavaScript plugin for Rails.

He has worked on projects for the likes of Nike, Sainsbury’s, Dulux, and Nestle and in a past life was a senior developer for über-agency AKQA. He has recently worked with Vivabit and continues to collaborate on the event management web application, Event Wax.

Dan will be presenting The Mysteries Of JavaScript-Fu

Simon Willison

Simon Willison is a freelance client- and server-side Web developer and a co-creator of the Django Web framework. Simon’s interests include OpenID and decentralised systems, unobtrusive JavaScript and rapid application development. Before going frelance Simon worked on Yahoo’s Technology Development team, and prior to that at the Lawrence Journal-World, an award winning local newspaper in Kansas. Simon maintains a popular Web development weblog at simonwillison.net.

Simon will be presenting For Example…