Jeffrey Zeldman
Executive Creative Director
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJeffrey Zeldman is an influential design and product leader known as a pioneer of web standards, with over two decades shaping web design, publishing, and conferences before his promotion to Executive Creative Director at Automattic. He founded A List Apart, A Book Apart, An Event Apart, and Happy Cog, building enduring communities and publications that codified best practices in responsive design, content strategy, and accessible UX. At Automattic he now bridges design and engineering at the OS level while continuing to lead employer brand and talent initiatives, demonstrating a rare combination of creative direction and organizational leadership. A former MFA fiction writer and founding faculty member of SVA’s Interaction Design program, he brings narrative rigor and pedagogy to product work, favoring clarity and brevity (famously “15 kilobytes” of attention). His career blends hands-on craft, editorial judgment, and conference curation, making him as comfortable shipping design systems as he is mentoring the next generation of web-makers.
11 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
BA English, BA English at Indiana University BloomingtonMaster of Fine Arts (MFA) Fiction Writing (English Dept), Master of Fine Arts (MFA) Fiction Writing (English Dept) at University of Virginia
french (a bit)
Github Skills (21)
javascript10
wordpress10
redux10
api10
wordpress-plugin10
nodejs10
react10
plugin9
traffic8
gutenberg8
php7
js6
css6
marketing6
staging6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
studiozeldman/poynter-reader-2017
Feb 2017 - Feb 2017
Contributions:1 commit, 1 push in 1 day
zeldman/amp-letter.github.io
Jan 2018 - Jan 2018
Contributions:1 push in 1 day
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