Emily Chang
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Emily Chang is an award-winning web designer and artist. She is the co-founder and co-principal of Ideacodes, a strategic design firm in San Francisco that she started in 2005 with Max Kiesler, her long-time partner and fellow award-winning web designer. Emily is also the creator of the popular blog and web resource, eHub, a constantly updated list of web applications, services, resources, blogs or sites with a focus on next generation web (web 2.0), social software, blogging, Ajax, Ruby on Rails, location mapping, open source, folksonomy, design and digital media sharing.
Since 1996, Emily has designed, consulted, and developed web sites, blogs, portals, and web products for technology companies, educational institutions, colleges and universities, global technology firms, non-profits, art and media organizations, ebusinesses, and organizations as diverse as Six Apart (the leading weblog company and makers of Movable Type and TypePad), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Hewlett Packard, the University at Buffalo, and the Sierra Club.
Emily was honored as a finalist in the SXSW 2004 Web Awards for her weblog, artcodes. Two University at Buffalo websites launched with Emily's designs and won consecutive Council for the Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) grand gold awards: the external eUB website redesign in 2002 and the alumni website in 2003. Her design of a university portal gained distinction as IBM Best Practices Partner and won the WebDevShare Award for Innovation in Technology in 2001. Her internet work has also garnered Web Marketing Association's best education website, numerous CASE awards, and a UCDA Gold award.
Emily was a web director at the Cornell University Entrepreneur Network from 2001-2002, and the first information and interface designer for the University at Buffalo Web Team from 1999-2001. In addition to design, she has produced community portals, built web applications for e-commerce transactions, created information architecture for large content-driven websites, and authored interactive multimedia. She has a M.F.A. in sculpture from the University at Buffalo and a B.A. in literature from the College of William and Mary. Emily currently lives and works in the SOMA web district in San Francisco, California.
