Andy Budd is one of the founding partners at User Experience Design Consultancy, Clearleft (clearleft.com). As an interaction design and usability specialist, Andy is a regular speaker at international conferences like The Web 2.0 Expo, An Event Apart and SXSW. Andy curates dConstruct (dconstruct.org), one of the most popular design conferences in the UK. He’s also responsible for UX London (uxlondon.com), The UK’s first dedicated Usability, Information Architecture and User Experience Design event.
Andy has helped judge several international design awards such as the BIMAs and currently sits on the advisory board for .Net magazine. Andy is the driving force behind Silverbackapp (silverbackapp.com), a low cost usability testing tool for the Mac. Andy also wrote the best
selling book, CSS Mastery (cssmastery.com) and occasionally blogs at andybudd.com.
Never happier than when he’s diving some remote tropical atoll, Andy is a qualified PADI dive instructor and retired shark wrangler.
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Andy will be presenting Persuasive Design: Encouraging Your Users To Do What You Want Them To!
Simon is a designer, author and speaker with a decade of experience at the sharp end. He started Erskine Design back in 2006, and the agency was runner-up in the 2009 .Net Awards Agency Of The Year prize. Simon recently left to pursue new and exciting challenges, which he can’t talk about yet. He once lived in Iceland, fell in love with it, and can’t wait to return.
Blog: colly.com
Twitter: @simoncollison
Simon will be presenting Adaptive Systems for Multiple Devices
If the internet is more awesome than it was in 1995, Karen would like to claim a very tiny piece of the credit. For more than 15 years Karen has helped create more usable digital products through the power of user experience design and content strategy. Today, as Senior Partner at Bond Art + Science, she works with clients to create personalized portals that dynamically update based on user behavior, develops data visualizations that make complex quantitative information easy to understand, and consults with publishers on ways to make their sites more appealing to readers and successful for advertisers.
Prior to starting Bond, Karen helped build the User Experience practice at Razorfish, hired as the very first Information Architect and leaving as the VP and National Lead for UX. Over the decade she spent there, she led projects for dozens of clients, overseeing major redesign initiatives for The New York Times, Condé Nast, Disney, and Citibank.
Karen is also on the faculty of the new MFA in Interaction Design program at SVA in New York, where she teaches Interaction Design History, focusing on the key movements and trends that have shaped the field, and Design Management, which aims to give students the skills they need to run successful projects, teams, and businesses.
Karen will be presenting : Content Strategy for the web
Tara ‘miss rogue’ Hunt has spent most of her adult life online, either participating in or building communities. From the first wave of online marketing when she was in Canada, showing companies how to brave this new medium, all the way to being part of one of the companies in Silicon Valley that led the wave into Web 2.0: the participatory web.
Tara understands how the the participatory web is changing all of our relationships: B2C, B2B and C2C. She doesn’t believe in pushing messages or creating strong brands, only in the power of building relationships. She co-founded Citizen Agency in 2006 with the mission of teaching her clients how to work more effectively with the communities they serve and how to embrace and adjust to all of the changes in culture businesses are facing. She maintains a successful blog over at HorsePigCow.
Tara’s book The Whuffie Factor came out in April 2009. She is also very much involved in grassroots online communities, spending all of her free time on Barcamp, Coworking, Zipkarma and Winecamp. She is also a supporter of the Open Source movement, the EFF, Creative Commons and community-based standards movements like Microformats and OpenID.
Tara will be presenting : The Whuffie Factor: The 5 Keys for Maxing Social Capital and Winning with Online Communities
Relly Annett-Baker lives in Brighton with her husband and two small sons. As a result, she thrives on the sea air and can be guaranteed to stand on Lego at least once a day. As well as being a freelance web copy and content writer, she is employed as live-in domestic staff by two cats who often supervise her typing and make editorial suggestions such as ‘I think it’s dinner time’. In between opening cans of Whiskas and writing for clients, she writes articles for various online media groups and continues to procrastinate over the draft of her first children’s book.
Relly will be presenting: All the small things
Jonathan Stark is a mobile application consultant who the Wall Street Journal has called an expert on publishing desktop data to the web. He is the author of O'Reilly's Building iPhone Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, is a frequent speaker at industry conferences, and is often quoted in the media on internet and mobile lifestyle trends. Jonathan began his programming career more than 20 years ago on a Tandy TRS-80 and still thinks Zork was a sweet game.
Follow Jonathan on Twitter: @jonathanstark
Jonathan will be Presenting: Building Mobile Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript