Jeffrey Zeldman
Designer, Writer, and Web Developer in Manhattan, New York
“King of Web Standards”—Bloomberg Businessweek.
Creative Director & Principal Designer, Automattic, Inc.
Founder & Publisher, A List Apart “for people who make websites” (founded 1998). Co-founded the multi-city user experience design conference An Event Apart with Eric Meyer. Founder Emeritus of Happy Cog™, an award winning digital design studio. Publisher and co-founder (with Jason Santa Maria) 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 by Ethan Marcotte. It has been translated into 15 languages, including (for the last edition) Italian, Chinese, Hungarian, Polish and Portuguese.
Faculty member on the MFA, Interaction Design program at School of Visual Arts, New York. 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 design columnist, MacWorld, PDN-Pix, Adobe.
In 2012, was the first designer inducted in the SXSW Interactive Hall of Fame. Tweet @zeldman. Write at zeldman.com (since 1995), A List Apart, and elsewhere.