Jeffrey Zeldman
“King of Web Standards”—Bloomberg Businessweek.
Employer Brand at Automattic. Blogging since 1995. Founder & Publisher, A List Apart for people who make websites (since 1998). Co-founded the multi-city user experience design conference An Event Apart with Eric Meyer in 2005. Founder of studio.zeldman, a web and interaction design studio in New York. Founder Emeritus of Happy Cog, an award winning digital design studio. Publisher and co-founder of A Book Apart—brief books for web and interaction designers.
Have written two books, notably the foundational web standards text, Designing With Web Standards, currently in a 3rd Edition co-authored with Ethan Marcotte. It has been translated into 15 languages, including (for the last edition) Italian, Chinese, Hungarian, Polish and Portuguese.
Founding faculty member on the MFA Interaction Design program at School of Visual Arts, New York for 10 years. Co-founder and host of the internet radio program The Big Web Show (“Everything Web That Matters”), which has twice been named Podcast of the Year by .net Magazine.
Former freelance journalist, The Washington Post & City Paper. Former copywriter & art director (DeVito Verdi, CME, Grey Entertainment, others). Played Casio in DC’s Insect Surfers. Owner, Red Flowers Studio, Washington DC (R.I.P.).
In 2012, was the first designer inducted in the SXSW Interactive Hall of Fame.
“Real web designers write code. Always have, always will.”
“The best way to engage honestly with the marketplace via Twitter is to never use the words "engage," "honestly," or "marketplace.”
“Spec = asking the world to have sex with you and promising dinner date to one lucky winner.”