Jeffrey Zeldman
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![]() Jeffrey Zeldman onstage lecturing on modern web design at An Event Apart | |
Born | 12 January 1955 |
Nationality | US |
Other names | Lewis Jeffrey Zeldman, L. Jeffrey Zeldman |
Citizenship | US |
Education | MA Fiction Writing University of Virginia, BA English Indiana University |
Occupation | Founder/Executive Creative Director/Publisher |
Employer | Happy Cog |
Known for | A List Apart, Designing with Web Standards, Happy Cog, The Web Standards Project, An Event Apart, A Book Apart |
Home town | New York City |
Children | Ava |
Parent(s) | Maurice |
Jeffrey Zeldman is an entrepreneur, web designer, author, podcaster and speaker on web design. He is the founder of the web design studio Happy Cog. He also co-hosts The Big Web Show, a podcast on the web and online publishing.[1]
Web publications
Zeldman has blogged and published independent web content since 1995. In 1998, he began the e-zine A List Apart, which focuses on best practices and innovations in web design and front-end development. Zeldman used A List Apart as an evangelical platform, showing designers how to use web standards to achieve accessible, search-engine-friendly sites that cost less to produce and work better across platforms. Since 2007, A List Apart has conducted surveys of web designers, creating one of the first public pictures of the profession as it is practised in the U.S. and worldwide.
Print publications
Zeldman's book Designing with Web Standards brought standards awareness to a new international audience. It has been translated into 13 languages and has been updated twice. The latest edition, Designing with Web Standards 3rd Edition, co-written with Ethan Marcotte, describes semantic markup, the separation of presentation from structure and behavior, the benefits of standards-based design, and covers topics including HTML5, CSS layout, working around support problems in old versions of Internet Explorer, accessibility, adaptive and responsive design, horizontal and vertical grids in web layout, selling accessibility and standards to reluctant clients and colleagues, designer/developer collaboration workflows, and more.
In 2010, Zeldman expanded his publishing empire beyond web magazines with the creation of A Book Apart, publisher of "brief books for people who make websites." These books are designed to be a quick read (as from New York to Chicago by jet) and to thoroughly communicate advanced topics in web design with a strong point of view. A Book Apart publications to date include HTML5 For Web Designers by Jeremy Keith, CSS3 For Web Designers by Dan Cederholm, The Elements of Content Strategy by Erin Kissane, and Responsive Web Design by Ethan Marcotte.
Design agency
In 1999, Zeldman founded Happy Cog, a web and interaction design studio specializing in user- and content-focused design powered by web standards. With offices in New York, Philadelphia, and Austin, and total staff under 50, the studio is considered a leading-edge boutique. Clients include Zappos, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Mozilla Foundation, AIGA, Thomson Reuters, Nintendo of America, Harvard University, Georgetown University, Groupon, WordPress, and W3C. The studio also creates products and launched a hosting business (Happy Cog Hosting) in 2010. That same year, Happy Cog was voted "Design Agency of the Year" in the .net Awards sponsored by .net magazine.
Web Design Conference
In 2005, Zeldman and Eric A. Meyer founded An Event Apart, "the design conference for people who make websites." An Event Apart is an "intensely educational two-day learning session for passionate practitioners of standards-based web design" followed by an optional day-long workshop on such topics as mobile web design, advanced accessible web design, HTML5, and CSS3. The conference currently takes place in seven cities annually. Cities and speakers vary. Speakers, in addition to offering informative content, must have made major contributions to web design or development in order to qualify to speak at the event.
Innovations
Zeldman and Happy Cog were early advocates of standards-based web design and many of their current and former employees have greatly contributed to various initiatives on the web, including:
- The development of "real type on the web" via CSS and services including Typekit.
- Popularizing such ideas as CSS layout, responsive design, and style switching. The latter was an early 2000 innovation which paved the way for later third-party innovations including CSS Zen Garden and a web site known as Readability.[2]
Books authored
- Taking Your Talent to the Web: Making the Transition from Graphic Design to Web Design (ISBN 0-7357-1073-2)
- Designing with Web Standards (ISBN 0-7357-1201-8; second edition, ISBN 0-321-38555-1; third edition, ISBN 0-321-61695-2)
Articles authored
- Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Medium? by Jeffrey Zeldman – Medium, April 20, 2015
- Know Yourself by Jeffrey Zeldman – Fournova, April 16, 2015
- Designer Blindness by Jeffrey Zeldman – Medium, April 3, 2015
- Zen and the Art of Wearable Markup by Jeffrey Zeldman – The Pastry Box Project, March 21, 2015
- Jesus and the Uber Driver by Jeffrey Zeldman – Medium, March 3, 2015
- The Love You Make: Ask Dr Web № 3 – A List Apart Magazine, FEBRUARY 12, 2015
- A Holiday Wish – 24 ways, DECEMBER 18, 2014
- Help! My Portfolio Sucks: Ask Dr Web № 2 – A List Apart Magazine, OCTOBER 30, 2014
- Valediction – A List Apart Magazine, AUGUST 18, 2014
- The Doctor Is In: Ask Dr Web № 1 – A List Apart Magazine, JUNE 26, 2014
- Ten Years Ago in A List Apart: CSS Sprites – Image Slicing’s Kiss of Death – A List Apart Magazine, MARCH 14, 2014
- Say No to SOPA – A List Apart Magazine, NOVEMBER 29, 2011
- “But What I really Want to Do is Direct” by Jeffrey Zeldman, Cognition, May 26, 2011
- Real Fonts and Rendering: The New Elephant in the Room – 24 ways, DECEMBER 22, 2009
- Recession Tips For Web Designers – 24 ways, DECEMBER 24, 2008
- State of the Web: Of Apps, Devices, and Breakpoints
- THE MAKER MAKES: ON DESIGN, COMMUNITY, AND PERSONAL EMPOWERMENT
- "If I were advising them on these decisions, I would have had them look at what people actually WANT from Facebook – fast access to their friends' photos and posts – and I could have helped them design an HTML5 web experience that actually works for mobile." – Facebook iPhone app to go native
Videos/keynotes
- Jeffrey Zeldman: 20 years of Web Design and Community (lynda.com)
- Jeffrey Zeldman – 10 Commandments of Web Design (aneventapart.com)
- Jeffrey Zeldman – Content First (aneventapart.com)
- Triangulation 63: Jeffrey Zeldman, TWiT Netcast Network, August 1, 2012
- Video: Jeffrey Zeldman’s Awesome Internet Design Panel - SXSW 2011 Interactive
- Jeffrey Zeldman keynote address at Do It With Drupal, 2011, NYC
Interviews
- ‘Seventeen coats of bullshit’ with Dan Mall and Jeffrey Zeldman – Unfinished Business podcast, April 7, 2015
- Writing the Book on Web Design: Jeffrey Zeldman Interview – Communication Arts Insights, March 24, 2015
- You, Inc: Going from Developer to Web agency (interview with Jeffrey Zeldman), by Jeff Pflueger – Pantheon, March 20, 2015
- Interview: Jeffrey Zeldman – PSD To WordPress, March 20, 2015
- Designing the Web with Jeffrey Zeldman – The Web Ahead episode 100, March 18, 2015
- Jeffrey Zeldman on What He Wants All Designers to Know – Founder Dating, March 4, 2015
- A Week in the Life of ... Jeffrey Zeldman – The FWA, February 24, 2015
- Interview with Zeldman, THE GREAT DISCONTENT, August 3, 2012
- A History Lesson Apart: Let's Make Mistakes Episode 133 – Mule Radio Syndicate, April 24, 2014
- What Comes Next is the Future, by Matt Braun & Matt Griffin: the definitive documentary about the web, as told by the people who build it each day, May 31, 2014
- Jeffrey Zeldman: The Job Is Never Done, by Teddy Rhys – Kontent, 2014
- Typewolf: Industry-Leading Designers Share Their Current Top 3 Favorite Typefaces, April 29, 2014
- 033: Jeffrey Zeldman – The Gently Mad, September 19, 2013
- Why Designers Need to Craft Words, Not Pixels: an interview with Jeffrey Zeldman by William Channer – Dorm Room Tycoon, September 18, 2013
- Large Type: One Web Designer Puts Content First in a Big Way, Forbes, May 20, 2012
- What Jeffrey Zeldman thinks about Jeffrey Zeldman’s induction into the SXSW Interactive Hall of Fame, Where No Man Has Gone Before, Austin Chronicle, 2012, March 2
- Jeffrey Zeldman Interview, Part 1 – Besquare, October 16, 2012
- “How To Fix Your Retail Website” | Inc.com by Issie Lapowsky; includes sidebar interview: Q&A: Jeffrey Zeldman, on the right way to retool a website 2012
References
- ↑ "Q&A: 2010 .net Magazine Awards". Q&A: 2010 .net Magazine Awards. Retrieved November 2010.
- ↑ "Readability".
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