My Web Design Superheroes

January 1, 2007

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.

Slides of Presentation of Andy’s talk at SXSW 2006