Meet some of the incredible people leading master-classes at Technique Retreat 2011...

Seb Lee-Delisle

Seb is a regular at Technique, and never fails to inspire and delight. As a creative coder par excellence, with a passion for sharing his techniques with others he represents pretty much everything about the way we like to do things around here.

Seb is a digital media consultant and founding partner at award-winning agency Plug-in Media. He specialises in programming creative visual effects and interfaces for games, physics, motion detection, 3D and visual effects (like particle systems). His work has pushed the boundaries of what is possible both on and off the web, and won a BAFTA for the Plug-in Media project Big and Small for the BBC.

He lectures and runs training courses world-wide and speaks at conferences worldwide such as iDesign, FMX, FITC, Droidcon, Adobe MAX and many others. He blogs at sebleedelisle.com and tweets at @seb_ly.

Seb @ Technique Retreat 2011...

Seb will be running 3 (yes, 3) Creative Coding sessions at Technique this time around, explore visual interactive possibilities in JavaScript, CSS and HTML5.

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Dan Rubin

An experienced visual designer with over 10 years in the industry, Dan’s ability to see things from the user’s point of view is invaluable.

 Dan is a graphic designer, web developer, musician and Apple enthusiast living and working in Fort Lauderdale, Florida (US). He’s a founder and principal of Webgraph (a design and branding studio), co-founder of Sidebar Creative (a design collective) and Sinelogic (UI and usability consulting) as well as a web standards consultant and speaker.

In addition to online self-publishing, Dan co-authored Pro CSS Techniques (Apress, 2006) and Web Standards Creativity (friends of ED, 2007), contributed to the second edition of Cascading Style Sheets: Separating Content from Presentation (friends of ED, 2004), and my CSS Zen Garden design is featured in The Zen of CSS Design by Dave Shea and Molly Holzschlag.

When he isn’t busyTwittering, his work, writings, and various side projects can be explored in and around the vicinity of Sidebar Creative andSuperfluousBanter.org.

Dan @ Technique: Dan is running two sessions; Real World CSS3 for Designers, and User-focused Design for DevelopersWhen he isn’t busyTwittering, his work, writings, and various side projects can be explored in and around the vicinity of Sidebar Creative and SuperfluousBanter.org.

Dan @ Technique Retreat 2011...

We were delighted to confirm Dan for just one workshop, so when he called The White Room and asked to do another, we felt we had no choice but to accept! Dan is running two sessions; Real World CSS3 for Designers, and User-focused Design for Developers

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Antony & Jerome Ribot

 

Antony and Jerome are co-founders of ribot - a design lab specialising in enjoyable small screen interfaces and experiences.

They entered the mobile industry 7 years ago, taking up the challenge of turning the constraints of mobile devices into a collection of subtle but positive experiences. They now talk on the subject of mobile user experience (UX) at web and mobile events around the world.

 

Ribot was founded 3 years ago and currently work with Nokia, Intel, Tesco, Microsoft and O2, to push the boundaries of mobile design and user experience.

Ribot @ Technique Retreat 2011:

Interaction Design for Small Screen Devices. Jerome and Antony focus on the more tangible design phases of mobile product development: brainstorming, sketching, wireframing and paper-prototyping.

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James Downes

James is Box UK’s Head of User Experience, and another regular at Technique.

When he joined Box in October 2005, he brought ten years of experience with clients such as The Cabinet Office, Lamborghini UK, Fujitsu and Mercedes Benz.

Since joining Box UK’s User Experience team, James has worked on a number of significant projects involving a range of clients from the FTSE 100 to international standards bodies and leading organisations across the UK public and heritage sector. Most recently, James has designed User Experiences for BCS –The Chartered Institute for IT, UKCES, World Vision and British Energy. 

James is passionate about improving the web for users across all sectors and brings his detailed knowledge of accessibility issues and Government standards to bear on each project he works on. 

He is regularly asked to comment on issues related to User Centred Design, Accessibility and User Experience.

James @ Technique: 

James will be running a hands-on guide to effective UX design as a central part of web development.

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Mike Byrne (13twelve)

Mike has been building semantic, accessible, pixel perfect websites for more than 10 years.

As the lead front-end developer at Fudge and also part of the Area 17 team. He specialises in standards compliant, accessible and usable websites, and is devoted to using and pushing todays best practice methods.

Mike is a massive html, css and javascript geek, and cites ‘good at not falling over’ as one of his main skills, which is of course marginally more important than his ability to handle the front-end development of large sites for the likes of AOL, Orange and Universal.

Mike @ Technique Retreat 2011:

With a focus on CSS, Mike will be teaching how to handle the development of big websites which require multiple developers.