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The Future of Site Design
For web site and web app design, 2006 has been a stellar year and 2007 promises to be even better. Hear what the brightest and most cutting-edge designers in the field are saying about the future of web design. This panel will discuss trends, innovations, predictions, and the outlook for web site and app design for 2007. The panel will also address some of the best practices, principles, and methodologies in design including new age tools and technologies such as Web 2.0, design patterns libraries, and AJAX, as well as the reinvention of CSS, Flash, and much more. Get a head start on the new year. Don't miss it!
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Speakers
Moderator: Reshma Kumar, VP, WebGuild
 Alex Limi, User Interface Designer, Google
Alexander Limi combines the kind of good looks, intelligence, sensitivity, and raw animal magnetism that only come from writing his own biography. His formal background is in psychology and computer science, and he co-founded the open source content management system Plone in 1999. It is now one of the largest content management software projects in the world, with over 100 core developers and close to 500 add-on developers in 40 countries. He was also instrumental in creating the Plone Foundation, a non-profit that protects and promotes Plone, trademarks and intellectual property, and negotiated initial funding with a major industry player. In 2006, he moved from Norway to San Francisco and started working at Google as a User Interface Designer, and is responsible for the UI Pattern Library.
 Bill Scott, Ajax Evangelist & Design Manager, Yahoo!
Bill Scott is the Yahoo! Ajax Evangelist and a Design Manager for Yahoo!'s recently released Design Pattern Library. Bill works closely with teams throughout Yahoo! to spread the goodness of "rich and sane" design for Ajax solutions. Before joining Yahoo! Bill co-founded Rico (openrico.org), an opensource Ajax framework while also founding a User Experience Team, architecting a JSP/Struts Web framework and a Java Swing framework for Sabre. Bill's 20+ years of experience in user interface production spans from the lowest to the highest levels across desktop and web. At the lowest level: assembly language line buffer algorithms, 3D graphics libraries, mapping systems built from scratch and numerous widget libraries. Applications include: highly interactive game development (Macintosh GATO), military war gaming, IDE tools. In the design world: interaction design, rapid prototyping, managing user experience teams, and creating design pattern libraries.
 Luke Kowalski, Corporate UI Architect, Oracle
Luke Kowalski helps with technology policy and serves as the corporate UI architect at Oracle. His role bridges the user interface (UI) design groups at Oracle, and he works as an evangelist for effective UI technology, on legal aspects of user interfaces, business context and partnerships, as well as cross-divisional information architecture integration. Before coming to Oracle, he worked for various startups as director of UI and Web, as well as for Netscape's Server and ECommerce divisions. He holds several UI patents, a CPE Certification, and serves as an ISO representative for US through ANSI. His educational background includes advanced degrees from UTA, Pratt Institute, and Columbia University.
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