On his way to becoming a software designer, Jason tracked asteroids, briefed fighter pilots, drew webcomics, and taught programming to artists. His Masters project at Georgia Tech involved generating comics to summarize wearable computer data, fusing together his nerdy passions for human-computer interaction and comics theory. Jason is currently a User Experience Lead at Cynergy, where he helps design and build apps that make people's lives better.

Joshua Blake is an integrator (developer-UX designer hybrid) with extensive experience developing Natural User Interfaces (NUI) for Kinect, Microsoft Surface, and Windows Touch devices. He is a Kinect for Windows MVP and is deeply involved in the Kinect, Microsoft Surface, and NUI communities. He maintains several open source NUI projects and founded the OpenKinect community. Joshua has a blog “Deconstructing the NUI” at http://nui.joshland.org and authored a Manning book Natural User Interfaces in .NET. Joshua is the Technical Director of the InfoStrat Advanced Technology Group in Washington, DC.

Jay David Bolter holds a Ph.D. in Classics from the University of North Carolina and is currently the Wesley Chair of New Media at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He is the author of Turing's Man: Western Culture in the Computer Age (1984); Writing Space: The Computer, Hypertext, and the History of Writing, (1991; second edition 2001); Remediation (1999), with Richard Grusin; and Windows and Mirrors (2003), with Diane Gromala. In addition to writing about new media, Bolter collaborates in the construction of new digital media forms. With Michael Joyce, he created Storyspace, a hypertext authoring system. With Blair MacIntyre and collaborators in the Augmented Environments Lab at Georgia Tech, he is exploring use of the Argon browser to dramatic experiences for games, art, entertainment and informal education. His collaborations in AR experience design extend to Sweden, where he is working with Maria Engberg, Susan Kozel, and other researchers and designers at Malmö University and the Blekinge Institute of Technology.

Jennifer Bonnett is a technology entrepreneur with over 20 years experience in the Information Technology/Software Development field specializing in web and mobile technologies. She is currently a Community Catalyst at ATDC and Chief Chick of StartupChicks.

StartupChicks is a networking and educational organization for women entrepreneurs focused on Media, Tech, Bio Tech, and Green Startups. Jennifer founded StartupChicks in 2009 to connect with existing women entrepreneurs and grow/inspire future generations of women to become entrepreneurs. StartupChicks has grown to over 1000 members.

Prior to these roles, Jennifer was CEO of Nexpense, a mobile expense management solution acquired by TRX in June of 2012, VP of Technology for Seacoast Synergy, a technology business incubator and co-founder / Chief Technology Officer of eTour.com.

eTour.com was an internet advertising engine similar in nature to a search engine. As the sole technology-oriented founder, she designed, developed, and launched the initial version of eTour.com in the spring of 1998. She eventually grew the technology staff to 60 employees, as the company grew to 180 employees. In 1999, eTour.com was labeled the “Most Addictive” site on the web by Industry Standard; the “coolest tool site” of the year by http://www.coolsiteoftheday.com ; and was ranked number 1 in average days visited by MediaMetrix (a.k.a. the “stickiest” site on the web). By April of 2001, eTour had grown to 5 million subscribers and was ranked number 71 in total traffic for the world wide web by MediaMetrix. eTour was venture backed. eTour.com was acquired by Ask Jeeves (now ASK.com) in May of 2001.

President of Sparkbox and co-founder of the Build Responsively workshop series, Ben shares his ideas about the web on the Sparkbox Foundry and other industry blogs. His leadership at Sparkbox has driven the team to be a pioneer in responsive web design techniques, and he continues to push for great user experiences outside the context of specific devices.

J has been making websites and software for the web since 1998, and has been credited with creating several software features web designers and developers take for granted today. He's passionate about efficient, usable, aesthetically pleasing design, and founded Nine Labs, an experience and usability consultancy, where he works with companies far and wide to improve their products and services. He's also the President of the Atlanta Web Design Group and the creator of the Web Afternoon event series.

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Unmatched Style is not just another CSS design gallery. We want to foster constructive design criticism as well as provide inspiration to our readers by providing quality content in the form of informative articles, interviews, discussions as well as our video podcast series.

Gene Crawford (@genecrawford) Gene is a designer with almost 2 decades of experience in the industry (Ugh!?!) with a degree in Graphic Design. In 1994, Gene met the Internet and has been honing his skills in information architecture and usable interface design ever since. He has overseen the design and architecture of hundreds of web sites and applications. An active member in the design community, he's the editor & producer of unmatchedstyle.com, organizer of refreshcolumbia.org and the ConvergeSE.com conference(s), President of AIGA South Carolina and writer for .Net Magazine.

Giovanni has a BFA in fine art and a BA in Graphic Design. After earning his BFA, he taught in public schools for a couple of years but found that he really wanted to work on projects with other creative people in the web design industry and hasn’t looked back. Giovanni is also an editor for unmatchedstyle.com.

Since discovering web programming as a kid (starting with Java applets, of course), Pamela has loved using web technologies to make apps and teaching other people how to use them. She went to USC for her BS & MS in computer science, spent five years at Google helping developers use the Maps and Wave APIs, and after Google unceremoniously killed Wave, she left to do her own thing and spent a year as a “hermit hacker.” Now, she’s a frontend developer at Coursera, working to improve the experience of online education for everyone and learning a lot along the way.

Co-founder of Kabbage and a serial entrepreneur who has founded, built and sold multiple technology companies. In 1996, Marc was a co-founder and an original board member of Pretty Good Privacy ("PGP"), a company formed to commercialize one of the most prevalent security standards used on the Internet, and recently popularized in the book The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. Marc assisted with the initial formation of PGP and oversaw the financing, growth and eventual sale of the company (to Network Associates (Nasdaq: INTC), a public company worth over $1 billion) in December of 1997. After PGP, Marc co-founded VerticalOne Corporation, a content personalization service that was sold to S1 Corporation (Nasdaq: ACIW) for $166 million. Marc was Executive Vice President of VerticalOne and worked in multiple areas of the company including financing, business development, sales, M&A and security issues. Marc also co-founded Lanta Technology Group, an Atlanta-based company that specialized in the executive staffing. Marc is an active speaker on raising venture funding and has spoken at the Technology Association of Georgia, Internet Summit, Southeastern Venture Conference, and Finovate among other conferences. He graduated Magna Cum Laude from the Henry W. Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Georgia and remains an avid bulldog fan.

Wesley Hales is a user interface consultant currently working on front-end projects for CNN.com. Wesley is the author of HTML5 Architecture on O'Reilly Media and is the founder of the HTML5 User Group in Atlanta. He co-founded several enterprise projects and frameworks during his 4.5 years at JBoss by Red Hat and has written articles on html5rocks, infoq, and dzone. You can follow him on twitter @wesleyhales , see him speak at the occasional conference, or read his random posts at wesleyhales.com.

David Kung leads Oblong’s business development efforts. Prior to Oblong, David served as Vice President and Creative Director at Walt Disney Parks and Resorts Online. As a marketing executive with Creative Artists Agency, David specialized in emerging technology for clients including Coca-Cola, Sprint, Boeing, Delta Airlines, Starwood Hotels and Harley-Davidson. Previously, David developed enhanced television programs for Walt Disney Imagineering R&D and was a design lead with Art Technology Group. He holds degrees from MIT's School of Architecture and the MIT Media Lab.

Wren is a designer and internet geek from Richmond, VA who loves creating smart, kick-ass websites and mobile apps that get the job done. She’s been building internet things for fun and profit since 1999, with a passion for web standards and elegant user experience. Her favorite things include bagels, trouble-making, and pages that validate on the first try.

Dave Malouf is a 20yr veteran designing digital products and services. Currently, he is applying his skills in two areas. First, Dave has started a new consultancy, Dave Malouf Design. Dave is interested in helping organizations bring design studio culture to life amplifying the creative energy of designers. Dave is also creating a new startup, Peer Loft, which is focused on bringing studio culture's requirements of passive transparency and amplified peripheral vision to digital collaborative environments.

Previously, Dave was the Professor of Interaction Design in the Industrial Design Department of the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD). Before SCAD, Dave worked for Motorola Solutions as a lead interaction designer working on hardware, software, and web solutions within an enterprise eco-system. Dave has worked for a host of enterprise software and SaaS organizations in his career. 

Mr. Malouf presents talks and leads workshops around the world and has been published both online and in print. 

Elijah Manor is a Christian and a family man. He develops at appendTo as a Trainer and Senior Architect providing corporate jQuery support, training, and consulting. He is a Microsoft Regional Director, ASP.NET MVP, and ASPInsider specializing in front-end development. H e enjoys blogging at http://elijahmanor.com and tweeting (@elijahmanor) about the things he learns.

Stephen Martin has been designing "something" for more than 10 years. Starting with print, then web, and now mobile. He spent the early part of his career laying out pages of The Wall Street Journal. Stephen eventually found his way to Atlanta, where he continued his career in the web industry. Most recently, he has been designing and building apps with the Mobile Lab at MailChimp. Stephen also created the App Sketchbook, a sketchbook for iOS designers.

David Moeller is the CEO and co-founder of Atlanta-based ATDC startup company CodeGuard. He has raised over $1.8M to fund the growth of the innovative website and backup service, and received awards from TechCrunch Disrupt - NYC, VentureAtlanta, ATDC/TAG CapVenture, and the MIT Enterprise Forum. CodeGuard is a TAG Top 40 Innovative Company in Georgia.

After being featured on ABC's "American Inventor" in 2007, David co-founded a company and licensed technology to Whirlpool. He then grew a startup SAT/ACT test preparation business, Ivy Insiders, to several hundred employees and over $2M in annual revenues before leading it to an acquisition.

He was formally trained on General Electric's Technical Sales Leadership Program, where he finished first in his program, and held operations and sourcing positions with GE in the U.S. and China before beginning his entrepreneurial career.

David has a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, highest honors, from Georgia Tech, and an M.B.A from Harvard Business School. He holds five patents, was selected by the Georgia Tech Alumni Association as a Top 30 under 30 (2008), was a TAG Spirit of Endeavor - Outstanding Leadership Finalist (2011), and received the TiECON Southeast: Top Up-and-Coming Entrepreneur Award (2012).

While living in Boston, he volunteered with the HBS Boston Association's Community Action Partners, assisting non-profit entities with strategic initiatives. A past mentor with the Atlanta TiE Young Entrepreneurs program for high school students and guest lecturer at Georgia Tech, David enjoys mentoring and contributing to the growth of tomorrow's leaders.

After a brief stint as a Web application programmer, Warren spent the past three years developing apps for the iPad and iPhone. He has worked on diverse projects in fields such as healthcare, music production, and social networking. He recently helped music sharing startup TrackTrack.It bring their service to the iPhone. He currently works as a freelance app designer and developer, trainer, speaker, and mentor.

Josh Netherton is a biology instructor turned web tinkerer, turned front end dev turned user experience designer. No matter what he's dissecting, coding or researching, Josh knows there's always more to learn. He works here in Atlanta shaping the interface and building the front end of Mandrill , MailChimp's transactional email service. You can follow him as @joshnetherton on Twitter where he often gushes about Doctor Who and makes obscure Monty Python references.

Sanjay is the founder of Startup Riot and Founder Fables, day-long conferences held in multiple cities. Previously Sanjay was the founding CEO of Digital Envoy and the inventor of the company's patented NetAcuity IP intelligence technology. Digital Envoy was acquired by Landmark Communications in June 2007.

Sanjay is a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and holds an electrical engineering degree from the Georgia Institute of Technology and an MBA from Emory University's Goizueta Business School.

Pratik Patel is the CTO of Atlanta based TripLingo (http://www.triplingo.com/). He wrote the first book on 'enterprise Java' in 1996, "Java Database Programming with JDBC." He has also spoken at various conferences and participates in several local tech groups and startup groups. He's in the startup world now and hacks iOS, Android, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, Rails, and ..... well everything except Perl. Pratik's specialty is in large-scale applications for mission-critical and mobile applications use. He has designed and built applications in the retail, health care, financial services, and telecoms sectors. Pratik holds a master's in Biomedical Engineering from UNC, has worked in places such as New York, London, and Hong Kong, and currently lives in Atlanta, GA.

Kes Sampanthar is an internationally recognized strategist and consultant, having worked for clients ranging from global concerns like Volkswagen, GE, Fila to media giants like Viacom, ESPN and Fox Interactive. He is currently the Director of Media Strategy and Innovation at Cynergy, an award-winning experience agency.

His career has spanned 2 continents and 2 decades ranging from research and development in artificial intelligence and game design to software architecture, innovation, technical consulting and media strategy. He is an industry expert and sought after speaker in innovation, internet architecture and most recently in the new field of Gamification. He has spoken in conferences around the world and is the organizer of TEDxPennQuarter in DC.

He is prolific inventor and has designed games, innovation tools, process methodologies, internet applications and most recently a new field of design; Motivational Design based on his current research into neuroscience, behavioral economics, game design, paleoanthropology, sociology and social network theory.

Sara Summers is a User Experience Evangelist at Microsoft, living in Austin, TX. She coauthored a book for experience designers, entitled Dynamic Prototyping and has a personal design mantra: happy, healthy designers and developers working and playing together to create beautiful, inspirational products. Sara loves to talk about big ideas, changing everything, breaking your toys, throwing away your designs and capturing new ideas. Sara reads everything she can get her hands on and prides herself in being an armchair social and cognitive scientist and researcher. Academically, she is trained as a technologist and visual designer, with a BS in Computer Graphics Technology, from Purdue University.

Rob is a software engineer with Sparkbox in Dayton, Ohio. He has found an outlet for teaching at the Universtiy of Dayton and Sparkbox's Build Responsively workshops. He spends his time hacking on JavaScript ideas and writing HTML, CSS, PHP & Ruby. When Rob isn't changing the web, he can usually be found building LEGOs with his kids or hanging out with his wife.

Escaping reality through my imagination has always been a core sense of who I am. Stir in relentless passion and borderline obsession for all things creative and that is what defines me as a person. I currently have the privilege to live a life I never thought possible, I work and play in the world of imagination and creativity. Working on feature films and commercials providing clients with a unique voice and conceptional solutions to dynamic problems. Freelancing from my home office in San Deigo I am constantly learning, growing, and studying the world around me as it is my muse.

After spending several years working in the music industry as a digital consultant Adam began his career in agency life. Today he works with large brands such as AT&T, JC Penny, and Delta Air Lines. As a front end developer who studied film in college Adam believes in a holistic view of development, that understanding code is only helpful if you understand the design, and that it's the collaboration and communication between people that dictate a successful project. Adam moonlights at The Creative Circus teaching the next generation of advertising professionals digital advertising concepts.

Chris Twigg figured out how to step back in time while getting his PhD at Carnegie Mellon University. Before founding 3Gear Systems, Chris pushed the envelope of digital visual effects at Industrial Light and Magic R&D.

An award-winning expert in graphic design, Matt Walker is the lead designer for ESPN's Fantasy Sports product line. Skilled in defining product strategy, Matt's guidance has been key to the ESPN Fantasy's effective integration of social media and gamification while broadening its reach onto mobile platforms. Through his leadership, the popularity of ESPN's Fantasy Sports has grown exponentially and now accounts for over one-quarter of traffic on ESPN.com.

Matt's success is a product of his passion for architecting effective product and experience strategies, applying analytical and creative thinking to ideation, evaluation, and end-to-end design execution. Widely recognized for his talents, Matt is sought-after by the biggest names in Sports, working with the likes of the Pittsburgh Pirates, The Colorado Rockies, Orlando Magic, CAA Sports, Marshall Faulk, CC Sabathia, Curtis Granderson, Nick Swisher, Barry Zito, Roy Oswalt, Albert Pujols, Ryan Zimmerman, Josh Hamilton — just to name a few.

Shawn Wildermuth is a nine-time Microsoft MVP (Data) and is involved with Microsoft as a Data Insider and ASP.NET Insider. He is also the author of seven books and dozens of articles on software development. He is one of the Wilder Minds (http://wilderminds.com) or at his blog at http://wildermuth.com.”

Scott is a serial entrepreneur, consultant, and family man. He has played a major role several successful organizations and helped countless others as an investor, consultant and executive. Scott has a passion to help businesses and professionals differentiate themselves in their marketplace.

His current project, vLink Solutions is positioned as “The Video Marketing Authority”. vLink helps businesses CREATE cost effective, high quality videos then CURATE these digital assets with a proprietary video marketing platform that provides powerful metrics, video hosting and social media integration. As CEO and Founder of vLink Solutions, Scott is the visionary leader and spokesperson for the company.

Scott is also the managing partner in Iuvo, LLC, a boutique management consulting practice, specializing in all areas of technology, marketing, business planning and more. Scott brings a wealth of knowledge from his CEO and COO background that provides clients access to a unique blend of technology, marketing, sales and operational expertise.

Mick Winters is a Creative Director at Threespot, a digital engagement agency in Washington, DC. In more than 14 years as a professional creative, Mick has worked in advertising agencies, Fortune 250 in-house design departments, and interactive studios, as well as an independent brand consultant. Mick honed his creative leadership abilities as an adjunct professor of design at The Creative Circus, an advertising school in Atlanta, Georgia. For five years, Mick taught classes in typography, informational architecture, interactive concepting, user experience prototyping, and digital storytelling.