RESOURCES
DAVE
BOWERS
Head of strategy, Likely Story
http://www.likelystory.agencyArnaud Mercier and his team at Area
17 probably don’t get the appreciation
they deserve for creating website designs
years ahead of their time. As far back as
2008, he was one of the first designing
gorgeous websites to logical, attractive
grid systems. Sadly, he died in 2011 of
leukaemia but his visionary work has
filtered through the industry indirectly,
which can be seen in almost any well-
designed website today. A timeline of his
work can be seen at arnaud.area17.com/
project/Intro
OLA
TAMBOR
Digital marketing manager, Fishtank
fishtankagency.comComing from a small agency, I really think account
managers are the unsung heroes of web design
and not just because it’s part of my role! It’s usually
their job to research, pitch the proposal and do the
dreaded follow ups. Once the project lands, planning
and organising the work is no small feat. Co-ordinating
the work of three to five different departments (UX
design, development, copywriting, digital marketing
and animation), all the while contributing to every step
of the project, they are also the first to communicate
delays or chase payments, so appreciate your accounts!JASON
DOBO
Senior mobile software developer in test, Babylon Health
babylonhealth.comQAs are the unsung heroes of the internet. If it wasn’t for them, the internet
would be broken and we wouldn’t know why. Despite being involved at all
stages of the development life cycle, we tend to overlook the contribution of the
QA team because the better we are doing the less we hear from them. Ultimately
we can trust them to tell us when something has gone wrong or is not working
and, more importantly, how the software has gone wrong. They protect us and
the end users from buggy software and can always be relied upon to make
software better.
5 HIDDEN HEROES OF WEB DESIGN
https://netm.ag/2YxYed0
We’ve all heard of Tim Berners-Lee and
many of you will be familiar with Håkon
Wium Lie. But many of the web’s most
important pioneers are still not household
names. This article pays tribute to five names
that deserve to be better known.
UNSUNG HEROES OF WEB AND
INTERACTION DESIGN: DEREK
POWAZEK
http://www.zeldman.com/2012/09/06/powazek/
Derek Powazek is one of the pioneering
designers who helped to bring the two-
way web into being, as this post by Jeffrey
Zeldman explains.BRUCE
LAWSON
Commissioning editor, Smashing TV
http://www.brucelawson.co.ukI nominate Elika Etemad – better
known as @fantasai. Elika is a
senior spec-writer in the CSS Working
Group, who has worked on so many of
the specifications that make web
design even possible: CSS2.1, Selectors,
Grid, Flexbox and loads more. Her
encyclopaedic knowledge of CSS,
patient editing and ability to herd cats
have contributed enormously to the
arsenal of tools we have. She’s helped
developers on Twitter and me
countless times. And yet few people
know her name. Let statues of her be
erected outside every design agency.A SHOUT-OUT TO THE UNSUNG
HEROES OF ACCESSIBILITY
https://netm.ag/2FJtcYk
To celebrate Global Accessibility
Awareness Day 2018, Level Access put
together this list of non-profit and volunteer
groups, who spend every day promoting and
educating others about accessibility.