Jeffrey Zeldman
Founder and Executive Creative Director, Happy Cog Studios

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Jeffrey Zeldman was one of the first designers, bloggers, and independent publishers on the web, and one of the first web design teachers. In 1998, he co-founded—and from 1999 to 2002 he directed —The Web Standards Project, a grassroots coalition that helped bring standards to our browsers. He writes Jeffrey Zeldman’s Daily Report [zeldman.com] and publishes A List Apart Magazine “for people who make websites” [alistapart.com]; has written two books (notably the foundational web standards text, Designing With Web Standards, now in its 2nd Edition); co-founded the web design conference An Event Apart and founded and is executive creative director of Happy Cog™ [happycog.com], an agency of web design and user experience specialists.