Web Developers Conference

Always aspiring to create something “a bit different,” Elliot Jay Stocks’ work is frequently featured in online and offline publications, showcased on various “inspiration” websites, and used as an example of how accessible web design can still look beautiful. His portfolio includes work for Automattic, The Beatles, Blue Flavor, Twiistup, EMI Records, and Carsonified.

On a semi-regular basis, he writes about design trends, issues, and techniques for industry-leading publications such as Practical Web Design and Computer Arts Projects, and is currently putting the finishing touches to his first book, which will be published in March ’09.

This works out quite nicely, as he’s rather fond of travel and enjoys treating the coffee shops of the world as his office.

Sarah Parmenter owns You Know Who, a small design studio, now in it’s 6th year, in the beautiful town of Leigh-on-Sea in Essex. Sarah’s passion lies purely in the web. Creating beautiful websites that match the clients brand and adhere to web standards are her forte. Being a Virgo means she is a true perfectionist and can be known to push pixels for hours. Sarah’s straight talking nature and no fuss approach to projects have landed her many great contracts over the years with various brands in the UK and abroad.

Sarah also regularly contributes to various online and printed media such as .net magazine.

Jon Hicks is one half of the creative partnership Hicksdesign. Most widely known for his work on the Firefox logo, his recent work includes logos for MailChimp, Silverback App and Mahalo, and web apps like Orchestrate.

In late 2008, he joined Opera Software as Senior Designer, working on the UI design of the Opera desktop and Mini browsers. Jon blogs from hicksdesign.co.uk where he regularly writes about design, CSS and browsers. Whatever you do, don't get him on the subject of cheese.

After years working at web agencies, Dan has recently become a full-time freelancer providing both design and development. Having started on the development side making CMS & intranets (using PHP, MySQL, XHTML, CSS & jQuery), he's eagerly bathing in the design side to provide a full service. Dan can often be found pondering/ranting about new approaches to how we think about the web & web development at BarCamps and other grassroots events.