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Drawing on his expertise in communicating complex ideas and abstractions through high-quality visual documentation, Dan wrote a book on user experience deliverables, Communicating Design: Developing Web Site Documentation for Design and Planning (New Riders). Amazon reviews call it "authoritative," "practical, personal, comprehensive," and "a cool nerdbook." |
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Robert is the author of the best-selling Designing the Obvious, which focuses on seven guiding principles of great Web-based software and how to leverage them in any real-world project. |
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With a background in music composition and computer programming, Sandra joined Closed Loop Marketing in 2004 after nearly a decade as an independent web consultant. She resides in Northern California, where she surfs, writes, practices mixed martial arts, and thinks about stuff. |
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Prior to joining Peachpit, Nancy was editor of Wisconsin Business Magazine, started up several internationally recognized magazines, and served as group president for all graphics products, services, new media, and training at Dynamic Graphics (DG). Nancy first joined Dynamic Graphics in 1984 to start Step-By-Step Graphics magazine, the internationally recognized how-to magazine for graphic designers; Step-By-Step Digital Design, the award-winning newsletter for desktop designers; and Dynamic Graphics magazine. Nancy has received many awards throughout her career, including being ranked in the "MDJ Power 25" list for 2004 as one of the most powerful and influential individuals in the Mac community, and receiving a "Woman of Distinction" award in 2005 from the East Bay Business Times. She has served on the boards of international graphics organizations, chaired and presented at graphics and digital design conferences, and judged traditional and digital design and illustration competitions. |
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Afterward, he earned a master's in communication for Interactive and New Communication Technologies while obtaining a graduate certificate in project management from FSU's College of Communication. In 2000, he led a team to victory in the Cool Site in a Day competition, where he and five other talented developers built a fully functional, well-designed Web site for a nonprofit organization in eight hours. Author of numerous Web design and digital imaging books, including Adapting to Web Standards: CSS and Ajax for Big Sites, Christopher has also written for New Architect Magazine, A List Apart, Digital Web, and Web Reference. At conferences such as Web Visions and SXSW, Christopher has given talks demonstrating the use and benefits of practical standards-based designs. He is the list moderator for Babble, a mailing list community devoted to advanced Web design and development topics. |
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Aarron is the author of Building Findable Web Sites: Web Standards SEO and Beyond, which provides Web developers with practical, standards-compliant solutions that will drive traffic to their site, help their audience discover new content, and encourage return traffic. When he's not teaching or writing, Aarron runs an independent consultancy in Athens, GA, that plans, designs, and builds user-centered Web sites and content management systems for clients in the Southeast. |
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An accomplished speaker and instructor, Charles has also taught multimedia and interface design and presented at many industry conferences. He is the author of Codin' for the Web: A Designer's Guide to Developing Dynamic Web Sites and Stylin' with CSS: A Designer's Guide. When he's not developing Web sites or writing books, he's usually recording music in his home studio, or trying to get his two young daughters to stop watching TV and do their homework. |
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Kimberly Blessing is a computer scientist, technical leader, and Web standards evangelist. At PayPal she heads the Web Development Platform Team, which is responsible for driving the creation and adoption of standards through training and process. She co-leads The Web Standards Project, a grass-roots organization that advocates standards-compliance and use to browser manufacturers and developers alike. A graduate of Bryn Mawr College's Computer Science program, Kimberly is also passionate about increasing the number of women in technology. She is a co-author of 
Dan Brown has consulted with organizations ranging from the US Postal Service, the World Bank, and the Federal Communications Commission to USAirways, FirstUSA, and Fannie Mae. From 2002 to 2004, Dan was a federal employee, leading the content management program for the Transportation Security Administration. His portfolio includes work on public-facing web sites, intranets and extranets, and addresses most aspects of the user experience, from information architecture and content strategy to interaction and interface design. 
Curt Cloninger is an artist, writer, teacher, and designer. He is the author of 
Zoe Mickley Gillenwater is an experienced Web designer and technical author, active in the Web standards community, who specializes in visual design, CSS, and accessibility. In her position as design services manager of the University of North Carolina Highway Safety Research Center, Zoe leads the design and development efforts of dozens of information-rich Web sites and applications, in addition to print design projects. She is the author of the upcoming New Riders title Flexible Web Design, the video training title /Web Accessibility Principles/ for lynda.com, and has written nearly 100 articles and tutorials as a partner at the Web development training site Community MX on a variety of Web design topics. Zoe is currently a member of the Web Standards Project (WaSP) Adobe Task Force and enjoys helping others learn Web standards through her work as a moderator of the popular css-discuss mailing list, editor for Adobe's CSS Advisor Web site documenting browser bugs and fixes, technical book editor, conference speaker, and consultant.
Lynn's work centers around Adobe's products for creative professionals. Based in the New York metro area, Lynn is an Adobe® Certified Expert in numerous Adobe applications including Photoshop®, Illustrator®, InDesign®, Acrobat®, GoLive® and InCopy®. Lynn proudly holds Adobe Print, Web and Creative Suite Master certifications. To date, she has co-authored and tech edited a number of books on Adobe software, and has recorded training for Total Training, Lynda.com and Terry White's Creative Suite Podcast.
Robert Hoekman, Jr., is the founder of Miskeeto, a product development and Web design consultancy focused on socially conscious projects that improve the world. He's a passionate and outspoken interaction designer, writer, and user-experience evangelist who has written dozens of articles and has worked with Adobe, Automattic, United Airlines, DoTheRightThing.com, Go Daddy Software, and countless others to create superior user experiences for a wide range of audiences. He also gives in-house training sessions and speaks regularly at industry.
Molly E. Holzschlag is a well-known Web standards advocate, instructor, and author. She has served as Group Lead for the Web Standards Project (WaSP), is an invited expert to the W3C, and has written more than 30 books covering client-side development and design for the Web. Currently, Molly works to educate designers and developers on using Web technologies in practical ways to create highly sustainable, maintainable, accessible, interactive and beautiful Web sites for the global community. She consults with major companies and organizations such as AOL, BBC, eBay, Microsoft, Yahoo! and many others in an effort to improve standards support, workflow, solve interoperability concerns and address the long-term management of highly interactive, large-scale sites. Molly is the author of 
Working with the Web consultancy firm, Clearleft, Jeremy Keith creates elegant, usable Web sites using the troika of Web standards: CSS, (X)HTML, and the Document Object Model. He is a member of the Web Standards Project and joint lead of the DOM Scripting Task Force. He teaches hands-on Ajax and DOM Scripting in full-day workshops and is the author of 
Steve Krug is a highly respected usability consultant who has worked quietly for years for companies like Apple, Netscape, AOL, BarnesandNoble.com, Excite@Home, and Circle.com. 
Penny McIntire has been teaching Computer Science at Northern Illinois University for 24 years now, teaching everything from programming languages to IBM mainframe JCL to systems analysis and design. She's the author of 
As VP User Experience and Creative Director of Closed Loop Marketing, Sandra heads up the company's usability and conversion optimization projects. She is co-author of the book 
Joshua Porter is a Web designer, researcher, and writer living in Newburyport, MA, USA. He runs a Web design and consulting company called Bokardo Design. Josh is a leading member of UIE's research team and oversees the development of User Interface Engineering's Web sites. He has written extensively on such topics as Web 2.0, Ajax, Web standards, and on-site search systems, and is the author of the upcoming New Riders title 
Garr Reynolds is an internationally acclaimed communications expert, the author of 
Nita Rollins, Ph.D is a multidisciplinary thinker and Innovation Consultant in the Resource Interactive R&D Lab. She is the author of 
Nancy Aldrich-Ruenzel is vice-president of Pearson Technology Group and publisher of Berkeley-based Peachpit Publishing Group. A graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a master's from Indiana University-Bloomington, Nancy got her start in graphics as a night-shift typesetter and proofreader at UW's Daily Cardinal.
Christopher Schmitt is the founder of Heatvision.com, Inc., a small new media publishing and design firm. An award-winning Web designer who has been working with the Web since 1993, Christopher interned for both David Siegel and Lynda Weinman in the mid-90s while he was an undergraduate at Florida State University working on a fine arts degree with an emphasis on graphic design.
Nathan Shedroff has been an information and interface designer for more than 12 years. He focuses on developing online experiences, building online brand strategies and business models, and developing online communities. Throughout his career, he has worked in several different media and authored several books on multimedia, computers, and information. His electronic experience spans CD-ROMs, kiosks, published titles, application development, and online experiences. He co-authored 
Gene Smith is a consultant specializing in information architecture strategy, social classification like tagging and folksonomies, emergent information architecture and interaction design. As a principal at nForm User Experience, he's advised clients like Comcast, Ancestry.com and the Canadian Patient Safety Institute. Through conference presentations and online publication Gene has helped define social information architecture, an emerging field that looks at how user interactions create structure in information spaces. Gene is the author of 
Jason Cranford Teague is the Director of Web Design Standards for AOL Global Programming, overseeing the design and development of one of the largest sites on the Web. Before assuming that position, he worked as the Creative Director for the top youth culture Web site, AOL RED. He is also a member of the W3C's CSS Working Group, the advisory board for Sessions.edu, and regularly contributes software reviews to Macworld magazine. As if that wasn't enough to keep him busy, he is also the Internet Strategist for Yuri's Night the World Space Party and keeps a Web designer's blog at webbedENVIRONMENTS.com. Jason writes books (mostly so he can remember how to do all of this stuff) including the best-selling 
Shari Thurow is acknowledged as the top designer for search-engine friendly Web sites worldwide. Well-known among the search-services industry, she is a regular speaker at leading search engine strategies and Web design conferences. She is regularly featured in leading Internet publications for a variety of online marketing and site design topics. Shari follows the highest ethical standards in every facet of her projects to ensure her 100% success rate for her clients. She is the author of 
Larry Ullman is the president of Digital Media and Communications Insights, Inc., where his main job is translating "geek" into English: for clients, readers, and anyone else that needs something explained. He is the author of the best-selling book 
Since 1999, Aarron Walter has been teaching a variety of courses on interactive design at colleges in the United States including Temple University, the University of Georgia, and The Art Institute of Atlanta, one of the few colleges teaching Web standards since 2002. His courses cover such topics as findability, nonlinear narrative, perceptual interfacing, history of communication media, user-centered interface design, and dynamic Web applications.
Charles Wyke-Smith has been creating Web sites since 1994 with a focus on user experience, information architecture, and interface design. He is currently Director of User Experience at Benefitfocus, which provides online benefits enrollment services to over 40 million people through the nation's major healthcare insurance companies, and develops consumer healthcare Web sites.