Headliners

Paul Boag has been working on the web since 1993. He is a user experience consultant for Headscape Ltd, a UK based web design agency that he founded back in 2002.

Paul also produces and hosts the longest running and extremely popular web design podcast at boagworld. He is a regular speaker at conferences and author of the Website Owners Manual.

Paul will deliver the keynote presentation at EdUI 2010.

David B. Berman is a strategic consultant with over 25 years experience in graphic, interface, and accessibility design.  He has traveled to 20 countries as an expert speaker, serves as the Ethics Chair for graphic design in Canada, and as a vice president of Icograda, the world body for graphic design.

David is the author of Do Good Design: How Designers Can Change the World. He will deliver the plenary talk at EdUI 2010 and asks all designers to take the “Do Good Pledge.”

Nick DeNardis, associate director of Web communications at Wayne State University, hosts the video blog EDU Checkup, where he reviews higher education websites from the point of view of a first-time visitor, while critiquing the design, information architecture, and code of the sites.

He is a staff writer at .eduGuru, a higher education marketing and web development blog and an officer for Refresh Detroit, a group of web professionals whose goal is to promote web standards, usability, accessibility, and to spread the knowledge of web design.

Nick will be leading a half-day workshop at EdUI on how to use advanced website analytics to optimize your designs.

Alistair MacDonald, co-founder and head programmer of Boston based bocoup, works with: Canvas, WebGL, Video, Audio & Multitouch browser interfaces.

Alistair is one of two technical leads on the Processing.js project, the Audio Incubator Group Chair at the W3C and former JavaScript Visualization Developer at Mozilla Corporation.

He has developed a JavaScript library called Burst Engine for animating SVGs on the HTML5 Canvas, and hacks with the Processing.js development team on future browser technology like direct audio stream access and WebGL (3D hardware support).

Alistair will lead a half-day workshop on how to build rich user interfaces with a little HTML5 and JavaScript that rival those currently being built in Flash.

Greg Rewis is the Principal Evangelist for Creative Suite Web Premium at Adobe Systems. With over 20 years of computer industry experience, Greg spends in excess of 200 days of the year on the road, talking with customers, giving product demonstrations at trade shows and seminars, and speaking at industry conferences.

Greg has been passionate about the web since putting his first home page online in 1994. His career has taken him around the world, from the early days of desktop publishing, to a start-up in Hamburg, Germany, the glory days of the web at Macromedia and finally his current role at Adobe.

Greg will be leading a half-day workshop on managing your web workflow in Adobe Creative Suite at EdUI 2010.  If you use Dreamweaver, Photoshop, Fireworks or Flash to build websites, you won’t want to miss this.

Stephanie Sullivan, founder and principal of W3Conversions, has been a web professional since 1999. A sought-after speaker, author, and coding guru, she’s called on to solve especially perplexing problems for high-profile websites. Her true passion is creating impeccable markup and code behind the design, and teaching others how to do the same.

Stephanie is a leader in the web industry who inspires others to strive for higher standards in their work. She serves as co-lead of the influential Web Standards Project (WaSP) Adobe Task Force, sits on the International Advisory Board for the Web Developer’s and Designer’s Journal, and is an Adobe Community Expert.

Stephanie will lead a half-day workshop at EdUI on CSS for web developers seeking to increase their skills.