Speakers

Andy Budd is a user experience designer and web standards developer living and working in Brighton, England. As the creative director of web design consultancy Clearleft, Andy enjoys building attractive, accessible and standards compliant websites.

He is also the author of CSS Mastery: Advanced Web Standards Solutions, a regular speaker at international design conferences, workshops and training events, and writes about modern web design practices at his online home, andybudd.com.

Presenting CSS3: Present and Future and giving the Advanced CSS Workshop

An interface designer by training, software engineer by trade, and accessibility advocate by passion. After several years in frog design’s Austin office, James Craig moved to San Francisco in 2006 to pursue an opportunity in Apple’s OS X software group. He is a member of the WaSP Accessibility Task Force and sometimes contributes to Knowbility, the W3C, AIGA, and the Microformats community. Though a self-professed technophile, most of James’ music collection is still inexplicably on 12” vinyl.

Presenting Universal by Design

As an evangelist for “design ethnography”, Kelly Goto is dedicated to understanding how real people integrate products and services into their daily lives. Goto is principal of gotomedia, LLC, a global leader in research-driven, people-friendly interface design for web, mobile and product solutions for clients including Seiko Epson Japan, Adobe, NetIQ, WebEx and CNET. Her book, Web Redesign 2.0: Workflow That Works, is a standard for user-centered design principles. Goto is also the editor of gotomobile.com, a leading online publication on mobile user experience and serves on the national board of the AIGA Center for Brand Experience.

Presenting Designing for Lifestyle

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.

Presenting Global Design: Characters, Language, and More

A content strategist and senior writer for Apple.com, Bronwyn Jones has worked as a marketing copywriter for more than ten years, writing about everything from off-road motorcycles to lingerie. Featured in A List Apart and The New Writer’s Handbook 2008, Bronwyn wants to spread the good word about good words on the web. She enjoys Britpop, agitprop, and cookies with butterscotch chips. Read about her thoughts on web content (and about that time she tried to get on TV with Morrissey) at presentimperfect.com.

Presenting The Book Was Better: Writing as Source Material for Web Design

Nate Koechley is a Yahoo front-end 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.

Presenting Professional Front-End Engineering

John Resig is a JavaScript evangelist working for the Mozilla Corporation and the author of the book Pro JavaScript Techniques. He’s also the creator and lead developer of the jQuery JavaScript library. He’s currently located in Cambridge, MA, USA.

Presenting The Why and Which of JavaScript Libraries