Speakers

Mark Boulton is a graphic designer from the UK. He has worked in Sydney, London and Manchester as an Art Director for clients such as the BBC, T-Mobile and British Airways. Mark now runs his own design studio, Mark Boulton Design.

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.

Presenting Font Embedding and Typography

Andy Budd is an interaction designer and web standards developer from Brighton, England. As the user experience lead at Clearleft, Andy spends his time helping clients improve their customers' online experiences.

Andy is a regular speaker at international design events such as SXSW, An Event Apart and Web Directions. He also curates the dConstruct and UX London conferences. Andy is the brains behind the low cost usability testing applications Silverback, wrote the best selling book, CSS Mastery and blogs (infrequently) at andybudd.com.

Presenting Guerilla Usability Testing

After a degree in Engineering at Cambridge and working as an IT instructor for the RNIB, Robin helped found AbilityNet in 1998. He now manages AbilityNet's accessibility and usability consultancy services, heading a team that is globally acclaimed as experts in auditing, disabled user testing and designing software and websites that are attractive, 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 practice to accessibility.

Presenting New Approaches to a Modern, Accessible Web

Andy Clarke is a highly regarded web designer who started working on the web ten years ago. He took ten months of his life to write the best-selling Transcending CSS: The Fine Art of Web Design, but his passion is amazing web design. He loves designing for the web, writing about design, and teaching it at workshops and conferences all over the world.

Now he is pulling all of those passions together to create For A Beautiful Web, a unique series of creative web design master classes for web designers and developers that cover topics including visual design and best-practice use of technologies such as CSS, mark-up and Microformats.

Presenting Walls Come Tumbling Down

In September 2006 Colly co-founded Erskine Design, heading up a talented team of designers and developers. His day-to-day role includes all kinds of project management, client liaison, research, planning and (if he's lucky) design and content management work.

Getting professional about the web in 2002, he has worked on numerous projects for record labels and bands, visual artists and illustrators, businesses, magazines, and community and voluntary sector orgs.

Colly authors a long-running popular blog and has written best-selling books about CSS, XHTML and web standards for publishers Apress and Friends Of ED.

Presenting The Process Toolbox: Traditional Techniques with a Twist

Douglas Crockford is an Evangelical Architect at Yahoo! Inc. He discovered JSON while he was CTO of State Software. Previously, Doug was Founder and CEO of Electric Communities, Director of New Media at Paramount, Director of Technology at Lucasfilm Ltd., and a Researcher at Atari, Inc.

Presenting Quality

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. Towards the end of 2008 he joined famed browser vendor Opera Software as Senior Designer.

Presenting Icons for Interaction

Molly works to define and create effective organizational standards and best practices to thousands of developers and designers working the Web via her books, articles, conferences 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.

Considered a colourful and passionate person, Molly is especially dedicated to using the Web in ways that empowers the global human condition.

Presenting HTML5 for the Markup Agnostic

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.

Moderating Hot Topics

Dan 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.

In addition to his contributions to sites including Blogger, the CSS Zen Garden, Yahoo Small Business and Microsoft’s ASP.net portal, Dan is a contributing author of Cascading Style Sheets: Separating Content from Presentation (2nd Edition, Friends of ED, 2003), a technical reviewer for Beginning CSS Web Development (Apress, 2006) and The Art & Science of CSS (SitePoint, 2007), coauthor of Pro CSS Techniques (Apress, 2006), and Web Standards Creativity (friends of ED, 2007), writes about web standards, design and life in general on his blog, SuperfluousBanter.org, and spends his professional time on a variety of online and offline projects for Sidebar Creative and Black Seagull.

Presenting Designing Virtual Realism

Jason Santa Maria is a Graphic Designer living in sunny Brooklyn, New York. He has worked for clients such as AIGA, Housing Works, Miramax Films, The New York Stock Exchange, PBS, WordPress, and The United Nations focusing on designing websites that maintain a balance of usability and effective content presentation. He serves as Creative Director for A List Apart and recently transitioned from a long-time position as Creative Director for Happy Cog Studios.

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.

Presenting Thinking Small

Chris Wilson is an Open Web Platform advocate at Microsoft, as well as co-chair of the W3C's HTML Working Group. He began working on web browsers in 1993 when he co-authored the original Windows version of NCSA Mosaic, the first mass-market WWW browser, and in 1995 he joined Microsoft's Internet Explorer team as a developer.

In the course of over a decade on the IE team Chris has helped develop standards for CSS, HTML, the Document Object Model and XSL through the W3C working groups. He also developed the first implementation of CSS in Internet Explorer – the first in any mass-market web browser. After a stint of five years leading the IE Platform and Security team he now works in Microsoft's Developer Division on the open web platform.

Presenting The Web Platform Just As It Is