Speakers: Kimberly Blessing

Session

Beyond Web Standards: Crafting Design and Development Standards

When we talk about Web standards, we discuss coding for compliance, portability, and accessibility -- but Web standards alone won't give you a quality user experience. Any time you collaborate on a Web site, some additional design and development standards must be crafted and followed in order to achieve consistency, both from a code and a design perspective. Learn how companies big and small develop internal standards and best practices to help manage the work generated by designers and developers.

Bio

Kimberly Blessing is a computer scientist, technical leader, and Web standards evangelist.

Currently working as consultant, Kimberly helps clients define and adopt both technical and design standards, in addition to providing other services. Kimberly has worked for PayPal, an eBay company, where she served as the Principal Front-End Architect and Manager for the Web Development Platform Team, which was responsible for driving the creation and adoption of standards through training and process. Prior to that, in a six-year career at AOL, she served as Senior Web Developer, Program Manager for Technical Standards and Strategy, and Director of Web Development.

Kimberly is a member of The Web Standards Project, a grass-roots organization that advocates standards-compliance and use to browser manufacturers and developers alike. A graduate of Bryn Mawr College's Computer Science program, Kimberly is also passionate about increasing the number of women in technology.