Notes on An Event Apart Boston
April 19, 2007
546 web artisans attended An Event Apart Boston 2007. Designers came from as far away as Singapore and India to attend the two day event featuring Steve Krug, Andrew Kirkpatrick, Molly Holzschlag, Cameron Moll, Dan Cederholm, Ethan Marcotte, Jason Santa Maria, Eric Meyer, and Jeffrey Zeldman (photos). Limited seating is now available for An Event Apart Seattle 2007, featuring in alphabetical order…
- Tim Bray, father of XML, director of web technologies at Sun Microsystems, and Tim Berners-Lee W3C appointee;
- Andy Budd, user experience lead at Clearleft, co-founder of d.Construct, and author of CSS Mastery: Advanced Web Standards Solutions;
- Mike Davidson, founder and CEO of Newsvine, former art director and manager of media product development for ESPN and the Walt Disney Internet Group;
- Shawn Henry, director of education outreach for W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI), research appointee at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, and author of Just Ask: Integrating Accessibility Throughout Design;
- Shaun Inman, award-winning designer and developer, inventor of Inman Flash Replacement and the curiously successful stats package Mint;
- Jeffrey Veen, designer manager at Google, founding partner of Adaptive Path, and W3C invited expert on CSS before most of us knew the acronym;
- Khoi Vinh, design director at NYTimes.com, author of Subtraction.com, and former partner at Behavior LLC.
The two-day event runs June 21-22, at Bell Harbor International Conference Center on breathtaking Puget Sound. Seating is limited and tickets are going fast.