Web Design World, Boston -- December 6-8, 2004

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Conference Speakers

Conference Chair	Jim Heid Your host at Web Design World, Jim Heid is one of the most experienced technology writers and instructors in the world. His 24-year career began at the dawn of the personal computer revolution, when he quit his job as a typographer to become technical editor of Kilobaud, one of the first computer magazines. He's been online since 1980, when he fired up a 300-baud modem and logged onto The Source, an early online service. Since 1998, Jim has served as Conference Chair for over a dozen Thunder Lizard conferences, and has spoken to thousands of Web professionals on subjects ranging from typography to streaming media. As Conference Chair, he is responsible for planning the editorial scope of each event, recruiting speakers, and planning session content. Jim has been a Contributing Editor and columnist for Macworld magazine since 1984, specializing in digital media topics ranging from Web design to DVD authoring. He has also written for the Los Angeles Times, Newsweek, PC World, and Internet World, and has taught at the University of Hawaii, the Center for Creative Imaging in Camden, Maine, and at dozens of conferences and industry events in between.

Keynote Speakers	Jeffrey Zeldman Jeffrey Zeldman is an internationally known Web designer and book author, a chief architect of the web standards movement, and the creator of some of the Web’s best-known brands. His personal site (www.zeldman.com) has welcomed over 24 million visitors and is a daily industry read. For nearly a decade, he has helped shape the medium’s zeitgeist in the areas of content, design, publishing, and technology. Jeffrey is the publisher and creative director of A List Apart, an influential magazine for Web designers, and the founder of Happy Cog Studios. He's also the author of two books: Designing With Web Standards and Taking Your Talent to the Web, as well as numerous articles for A List Apart, Adobe.com, Creativity Magazine, Digital Web Magazine, Macworld, PDN-Pix, and other publications..
	Kelly Goto Kelly Goto is a principal at gotomedia, inc., a San Francisco-based consultancy specializing in merging the disciplines of strategy, branding, and research into compelling user experiences. Kelly has consulted with many high profile clients including Adobe Corporation, Macromedia, and the FDIC. With over 16 years of experience in the design community, Kelly bridges the gap between utility and aesthetics. She is the co-author of the highly acclaimed book Web Redesign: Workflow that Works, now in its second edition.

Conference Speakers	Douglas Bowman Douglas Bowman's highly publicized and hugely successful redesigns of sites like Wired News and Adaptive Path have pushed him to the forefront of standards-compliant web design. Doug's consulting firm, Stopdesign, proves that beautiful, easily maintainable design can exist alongside simple, standards-compliant code. Prior to founding Stopdesign, Doug led the creation and implementation of design process and standards for an international network of sites under Terra Lycos and Wired Digital. He has written articles for A List Apart, and publishes design rants and CSS tricks at Stopdesign.com.
	Tom Green Bio coming shortly...
	Jason Fried Jason Fried, President, 37signals, is a passionate leader in the field of simple, clear, and elegant Web-based user interface design. Jason has spoken internationally, completed projects for every-sized client, co-authored Defensive Design for the Web (New Riders, 2004), and lead the design of Basecamp, a popular Web-based project management tool for creative services firms.
	Molly E. Holzschlag An author, instructor, and Web designer, Molly E. Holzschlag has authored over 27 books related to Web design and development. As a steering committee member for the Web Standards Project (WaSP), Molly works along with a group of other dedicated Web developers and designers to promote W3C recommendations. She also teaches Webmaster courses for the University of Arizona, University of Phoenix, and Pima Community College. She wrote the very popular "Integrated Design" column for Web Techniques Magazine and spent a year as Executive Editor of WebReview.com.
	Andrew Kirkpatrick Andrew is Strategic Partnerships Technical Manager at the WGBH National Center for Accessible Media (NCAM) in Boston. In addition to strategic partnership activities, He manages projects focused on web and interactive media accessibility, and is on the development teams for MAGpie - NCAM¹s software for creating captions and audio descriptions, and STEP - NCAM¹s Simple Tool for Error Prioritization. Andrew is involved with NCAM's work with the accessibility efforts of companies such as Macromedia, Apple, and AOL, helping ensure that client and authoring applications are accessibility with assistive technologies. Andrew speaks and writes on accessibility often, including regular appearances at Web Design World conferences and a chapter on Flash accessibility in "Flash Usability Guide", published by Friends of Ed.
	Joe Marini Joe Marini has been active in the Web and graphics industry for more than 15 years. He was an original member of the Dreamweaver engineering team at Macromedia, and has also held prominent roles in creating products such as QuarkXPress, mFactory's mTropolis, and Extensis QX-Tools. He is a regularly featured speaker at industry conferences and has authored or co-authored several books on Web development. His book The Document Object Model is widely regarded as the definitive resource for working with the DOM.
	Steve Mulder Steve Mulder is a Senior Consultant in the User Experience group at Molecular, an Internet consulting firm in Boston. He has delivered successful user experiences for clients such as Morgan Stanley, PC Connection, Estee Lauder, 3M, and Lycos. Through his expertise in information architecture, he translates knowledge about customers into effective features, site structure, navigation, and search systems. Through his expertise in usability, he applies testing techniques and best practices to ensure that the end product actually works.
	Michael Ninness Michael Ninness grew up in the redwoods of Arcata in Northern California. In 1989 he moved to Seattle to study for a Graphic Design BFA at the University of Washington and fell in love with the Pacific Northwest. He paid his way through design school by teaching his fellow design students, his professors, and the professional design and photography community in Seattle how to use the Adobe and Macromedia design applications. His design career took a permanent turn when he accepted a job at Extensis Corp. in 1997 as the group product manager for digital imaging solutions. After initially resisting the job offer, he was challenged by the hiring manager to “come design the products you’d want to use as a designer”. He’s been hooked on creating design software ever since. After Extensis, he spent three years at Adobe as the LiveMotion group product manager, then nearly two years as a program manager and UI designer at Microsoft, designing new tools for professional UI designers. He is the author of Photoshop 7 Power Shortcuts and is a contributor to Photoshop User and Design Graphics magazines, and he dreams in keyboard shortcuts. Send your Adobe UI gripes and likes to him at .