Speaker Lineup for Breaking Development Orlando 2012
Cennydd Bowles
Cennydd Bowles is an interaction designer and writer based in Brighton, UK.
Cennydd has a decade of experience advising clients large and small on the benefits of customer-focused design. He speaks at design and user experience conferences across the globe and is a regular mentor of new design talent.
He writes for his popular blog and influential design publications, and is author of the book Undercover User Experience Design. His second book, Designing the Wider Web, will be published in 2012.
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Josh Clark
Josh Clark is a designer specializing in mobile design strategy and user experience. He's author of "Tapworthy: Designing Great iPhone Apps," and his outfit Global Moxie offers consulting services and workshops to help media companies, design agencies, and creative organizations build tapworthy mobile apps and effective websites.
Before the interwebs swallowed him up, Josh worked on a slew of national PBS programs at Boston's WGBH. He shared his three words of Russian with Mikhail Gorbachev, strolled the ranch with Nancy Reagan, hobnobbed with Rockefellers, and wrote trivia questions for a primetime game show. In 1996, he created the uberpopular "Couch-to-5K" (C25K) running program, which has helped millions of skeptical would-be exercisers take up jogging. (His motto is the same for fitness as it is for user experience: no pain, no pain.)
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The Seven Deadly Myths of Mobile
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Lyza Danger Gardner
Lyza Danger Gardner is a dev. She has spent the last 15 years building and breaking web sites in all sorts of capacities, mixing inspirations from sometimes incongruous-seeming disciplines. Since co-founding Portland, Ore.-based mobile web start-up Cloud Four (http://www.cloudfour.com) in 2007, Lyza has tortured and thrilled herself with the intricate ins and outs of the myriad devices and browsers now accessing the web globally. She lives and breathes the web.
The new frontier of web development is complex. Lyza seeks ways to make it easier, more fun, and, with hope, future friendly. In partnership with fellow Cloud Four co-founder Jason Grigsby, Lyza co-authored Head First Mobile Web for O'Reilly Publishing.
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Brian Fling
Brian Fling is the Founder and Creative Director of pinch/zoom—a mobile design firm based in Seattle. Brian is the author of O'Reilly Media's Mobile Design and Development (http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596155445/) and an authority in the field of mobile user experience. He has recently worked with some of the biggest companies in the world—like The New York Times, HSBC, ADP, BBC, Best Buy, PayPal, Delta and eHarmony—to design and build amazing mobile experiences.
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Jason Grigsby
Jason Grigsby was one of the project leads on the Obama iPhone Application and helped design the user inferface for the Wall Street Journal's Blackberry application. He founded and organizes Mobile Portland, a local mobile group.
Jason is a co-founder of Cloud Four, a small start-up focused on mobile and web development. He blogs at http://CloudFour.com/blog and provides a frequent updates about mobile as @grigs on Twitter.
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Jenifer Hanen
Jenifer Hanen, aka Ms. Jen, is a mobile | web designer | developer with over a decade of freelance and consulting experience for small business and non-profit clients. She has also been known to stand in front of a classroom and inflict web standards upon design students. As a code minimalist, she inadvertently discovered the mobile web in 2001 when she was shown that one of her sites rendered as designed, albeit in black & white, on an early web-enabled mobile device. Jenifer became mobile curious and has since been passionate about the mobile web, mobile user experience, mobile photo blogging, and almost all things mobile. She usually has at least two mobile camera phones on her personage at any time.
She can be found on most of the social networks as @msjen and blogging at blackphoebe.com/msjen & mobilefor.us.
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Stephen Hay
Stephen has been designing and developing for the web since 1995. He was formerly Creative Director of Cinnamon Interactive, one of the first web design and development firms to successfully combine professional visual design with open web standards and accessibility best practices back when table layout was the norm. He now independently consults with clients on design, multi-platform strategy and accessibility through his new company, Zero Interface.
Stephen has written for A List Apart, NaarVoren and ChangeThis. Aside from his client work, he speaks and writes on the subjects of CSS3 layout, (web) design and accessibility. He sporadically publishes his thoughts at the-haystack.com.
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Rachel Hinman
Rachel Hinman is a researcher, designer and a recognized thought leader in the mobile user experience field. Her passion for cultural study, art, and design coupled with the belief that people can use technology to improve the human condition have been the driving forces in her career for over a decade.
Currently, Rachel is a Senior Research Scientist at the Nokia Research Center in Palo Alto, California. There she focuses on the research and design of emergent and experimental mobile interfaces and mobile experiences for emerging markets. Prior to joining Nokia, Rachel was and experience design director at Adaptive Path, and a mobile researcher and strategist for Yahoo's mobile group. Rachel's innate sensitivity to people and culture have proven powerful skills in the field, enabling her to successfully lead research studies on mobile phone usage in the US, Europe, Asia and Africa.
Rachel writes and speaks frequently on the topic of mobile research and design. She is the creative force behind the 90 Mobiles in 90 Days Project and her perspectives on mobile user experience have been featured in Interactions Magazine, BusinessWeek and Wired. Currently, Rachel is writing The Mobile Frontier: A Guide for Designing Mobile User Experiences with Rosenfeld Media. Expected publication is winter of 2011.
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Peter-Paul Koch
Peter-Paul Koch is a mobile platform strategist, consultant, and trainer in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. He concentrates on Web technologies, mobile websites, and W3C Widgets.
He specializes in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and browser compatibility. He has won international renown with his browser compatibility research and his publications on this site and others, frequently speaks at conferences, has founded Fronteers, the Dutch association of front-end professionals, and advises browser vendors on their implementation of Web standards.
In 2009 he shifted from traditional desktop browsers and sites to the mobile Web, and he never looked back. He discovered that mobile devices and browsers are in even more need of description than their desktop counterparts, and set himself to the task.
On the Web he is universally known as ppk.
His grandfather was a coffee planter on Java, so he is genetically predetermined to be an expert on most languages that have "Java" in their name.
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Ethan Marcotte
Ethan Marcotte is an independent designer/developer who is passionate about beautiful design, elegant code, and the intersection of the two. Over the years his clientele has included New York Magazine, the Sundance Film Festival, the Boston Globe, and the W3C.
Ethan coined the term “responsive web design” to describe a new way of designing for the ever-changing Web and, if given the chance, will natter on excitedly about it—he even went so far as to write a book on the topic. A popular and experienced speaker, he is also the coauthor of Jeffrey Zeldman’s Designing With Web Standards (3rd Edition), and a contributing writer to Dan Cederholm’s Handcrafted CSS.
Ethan lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and would like to be an unstoppable robot ninja when he grows up. Beep.
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Karen McGrane
If the internet is more awesome than it was in 1995, Karen would like to claim a very tiny piece of the credit. For more than 15 years Karen has helped create more usable digital products through the power of user experience design and content strategy. Today, as Managing Partner at Bond Art + Science, she develops web strategies and interaction designs for publishers, financial services firms, and healthcare companies.
Prior to starting Bond, Karen built the user-centered design practice at Razorfish in her role as VP and National Lead for User Experience. Karen is also on the faculty of the MFA in Interaction Design program at SVA in New York, where she teaches Design Management, which aims to teach students how to run successful projects, teams, and businesses.
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Matt Menzer
Matt is a developer at Deloitte | Übermind. A passion for the unique information accessibility of the web makes mobile the natural place for Matt to work, exploring how new devices and technologies can spread access to and enhance interactive experiences...which is really a long-winded way of saying he <3s the (mobile) web. Matt has worked with Fortune 500 companies to build robust, future-friendly web experiences and educate about the challenges and opportunities ahead as the device landscape blows up.
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James Pearce
James is Head of Mobile Developer Relations at Facebook. He’s a developer and writer with a special passion for mobile and exploring its untapped potential.
James’ mobile projects include confess.js, WhitherApps, tinySrc, ready.mobi, Device Atlas, and mobiForge. Previously at Sencha, dotMobi, Argogroup and Ernst & Young, he has also written books on the mobile web for Wrox & Wiley. He’s easy to find at /jamesgpearce, @jamespearce or http://tripleodeon.com.
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Guy Podjarny
Guy Podjarny, or Guypo for short, is a web performance researcher and evangelist, constantly chasing the elusive instant web. Guy focuses heavily on mobile web performance, and regularly digs into the guts of mobile browsers. Guy is also the author of Mobitest, a free mobile measurement tool, and contributes to various open source tools. Guy was previously the co-founder and CTO of blaze.io, recently acquired Akamai.
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Stephanie Rieger
Stephanie is a designer and closet anthropologist with a passion for the many ways people interact with technology. With a diverse background, Stephanie's expertise lies in marrying design, technology and business goals to craft simple, elegant experiences. A compulsive tester and researcher, Stephanie is always keen to discover and share insights on the intricacies of cross-platform mobile design and mobility trends from around the world.
