One of my favorite talks at Refresh 06 was Andy Budd’s, How to be a Web Design Superhero. At the end of the talk, he listed his web design superheroes. I liked the idea. Here is my current list:

  • Jared Spool - Usability and Experience Design
  • Josh Porter - Social Web
  • Andy Budd - CSS
  • Kelly Goto - Web ReDesign Process, Persona
  • Gerry McGovern - Killer Web Content
  • Steve Krug - Usability
  • Kathy Sierra - Creating Passionate Users (Experience Design)
  • Andy Clarke - Transcending CSS (I have only read a chapter of Transcending CSS and it is great). Simon Collison referred to it as “era-defining.” From what I have read I think this is an important book.

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