Ethan Marcotte
Interactive Design Director
Ethan Marcotte is a versatile user experience designer/developer, whose work demonstrates a passion for the intersection of quality code and compelling design. Prior to joining Happy Cog, Ethan worked with such clients as New York Magazine, Harvard University, and the W3C. A former steering committee member of The Web Standards Project, his work in the standards space has been covered in several magazines and online publications.
Ethan has acted as a contributing author to Handcrafted CSS (New Riders, 2009), Web Standards Creativity (friends of ED, 2007) and Professional CSS (Wrox, 2005). He collaborated with Happy Cog founder Jeffrey Zeldman on the third edition of Designing With Web Standards (New Riders, 2009), the classic title that sits on every savvy designer’s bookshelf. Ethan is an experienced technical editor, having edited the first edition of Bulletproof Web Design, as well as the second edition of Designing with Web Standards.
Ethan is a contributing author and technical editor at A List Apart, “for people who make websites.” He is also a popular educator, and has been a featured speaker at An Event Apart, the SXSW Interactive festival, Harvard University, and AIGA’s In Control conference. He spends entirely too much time online, and would like to be an unstoppable robot ninja when he grows up. Beep.
Selected Articles and Publications
- Responsive Web Design
- May 2010, A List Apart
- Fluid Grids
- March 2009, A List Apart
- Where Our Standards Went Wrong
- February 2007, A List Apart