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Web Design Roundtable

An Open Q & A with the Industries Top Talent

Saturday September 22 - 10:00 AM

Have a question for our speakers? This session opens up to your questions for a candid discussion of what’s happening in the Web Design World.

Our panelists will answer your questions, debate hot topics, and give you their un-rehearsed thoughts and opinions about what matters to you. This is a must see session!

Your Speakers

  • Dan Rubin User Experience Designer, Author, Producer.
    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, specifically focusing on the use of (X)HTML and CSS to streamline development and increase flexibility and accessibility.
  • Jonathan Snook Web Developer Extraordinaire
    Jonathan Snook has luckily discovered how to turn a hobby of playing on the internet into a successful career. He worked for over seven years with web agencies in Ottawa, Canada, getting to work with clients such as Red Bull, Apple, and FedEx.
  • Molly Holzschlag World renown standardista, instructor, and author.
    Molly E. Holzschlag is a well-known Web standards advocate, instructor, and author. She is Group Lead for the Web Standards Project (WaSP) and an invited expert to the HTML and GEO working groups at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).
  • Rob Jones User Interface Design Expert
    Rob received a BS in Computer Science, but was always more interested in graphics so he combined the two by working in Visual Effects for film. This lead to working with some the most creative software firms in the world, including Wavefront, SGI, MetaTools (the guys who created Kai's Power Tools) and Square LA.
  • Keith Robinson Principal and Creative Director, Blue Flavor
    D. Keith Robinson is a Principal and the Creative Director for Blue Flavor , an experience, Web and mobile design consultancy in Seattle. Keith is a recognized expert in the fields of mobile and Web design, user experience, information architecture, and Web publishing and he's a frequent speaker and writer on those subjects.
  • Garrett Dimon An Information Architect on a mission to make the Web a better place.
    Garrett is on a mission to make the Web a better place. Armed with usability and efficiency, he's convinced that if it needs instructions, it doesn't work. That's why everything he does - from information architecture to site development - is elegant in its simplicity and a complete joy for the user.
  • James Craig * works on the web
    Still on the run from the Zulu nation, James Craig moved from Austin to San Francisco in 2006. A daytime navigator of infinite loops and nighttime surveyor of twits, he is a member of the WaSP Accessibility Task Force and sometimes contributes to Knowbility, the W3C, AIGA, and the Microformats communities.
  • Nick Finck Principal and Director of User Experience, Blue Flavor
    Nick Finck is an 12-year veteran of the Web and considered a Web craftsman by trade. His skills traverse Web design, development, analysis, and publishing, along with user research and information architecture.
  • Darrin Ward The SEO, optimized for search!
    Darrin Ward is the original founder of both the "Google Dance Tool" and the infamous "SEO Chat". Regarded highly among SEO's & SEM's, Darrin continually analyzes search engines, and ways in which to obtain better search rankings.
  • Bryan Veloso Not your average Internet Entrepreneur
    Formerly of Facebook and Automattic, with a B.A. in entrepreneurship, Bryan Veloso is one-half of the a pseudo “multi-industry conglomerate”, Revyver (pronounced re-vye-ver), set to conquer the world with eggrolls and Japanese pop music.
  • Chris Bernard User Experience Evangelist, Microsoft
    Chris Bernard has been a practicing designer for the last 15 years working in the realms of broadcast, motion graphics, interactive, application and Web development. Currently a User Experience Evangelist for Microsoft, Chris has held previous roles as a Creative Director and Practice Leader in the Centers for e-business Innovation at IBM and has served in numerous design director and strategy roles in interactive and broadcast focused design studios.
  • Jeff Croft Web Designer, Author
    Jeff Croft is a web designer and developer at Blue Flavor, an experience and design consultancy in Seattle. Beyond his work for Blue Flavor, Jeff is a blogger, speaker, critic, and industry thought leader.