11 Facts About Jeffrey Zeldman

Jeffrey Zeldman is an American entrepreneur, web designer, author, podcaster and speaker on web design.

Jeffrey Zeldman is the co-founder of A List Apart Magazine and the Web Standards Project.

Jeffrey Zeldman founded the design studios Happy Cog and studio.

Jeffrey Zeldman was born on January 12,1955, in Queens, New York, to the robotics engineer Maurice Zeldman and his wife Phyllis Sylvia Zeldman.

Jeffrey Zeldman earned an undergraduate degree from University of Indiana, and an MFA in fiction writing from University of Virginia.

Jeffrey Zeldman briefly worked as a reporter for The Washington Post and ten years as an advertising copywriter before turning to web design in 1995.

Jeffrey Zeldman rose to prominence as an authority on web design in the second half of the nineties by advocating a middle ground between the aesthetically oriented position of David Siegel and the functionally oriented position of Jakob Nielsen, viewing function and aesthetics as complementary rather than polar opposites.

In 1998, Jeffrey Zeldman co-launched A List Apart, a web magazine which explores the design, development, and meaning of web content, with a focus on the techniques and benefits of designing with web standards.

In 1999, Jeffrey Zeldman founded Happy Cog, a web and interaction design studio specializing in user-and content-focused, standards-compliant design.

Jeffrey Zeldman has authored two books, Taking your Talent to the Web, which was published in 2001, and Designing with Web Standards, which first came out in 2003, and appeared in two revised editions, one in 2007, and one in 2009.

In 2010, Jeffrey Zeldman expanded his publishing work beyond web magazines with the creation of the A Book Apart imprint.