Head First Web Design

Authors of Head First Web Design

Ethan Watrall is an Assistant Professor at Matrix: The Center for Humane Arts, Letters & Social Sciences Online, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Telecommunication, Information Studies, and Media, and an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Michigan State University. In addition, Ethan is a Principal Investigator in the Games for Entertainment & Learning Lab, and co- founder of both the undergraduate Specialization and Game Design Development and the MA in Serious Game Design at Michigan State University. Ethan teaches in a wide variety of areas including cultural heritage informatics, user centered & user experience design, game design, serious game design, game studies, and ancient Egyptian social history & archaeology. In addition to a wide variety of academic papers and conference presentations, Ethan has written a number of books on interactive design & web design.

When he’s not being professorial, he’s a world class comic book nerd (Killowog is so his favorite Green Lantern), a sci-fi dork (he’ll argue to the grave that Tom Baker is the best Doctor ever), and an avid player of all sorts of games (digital, board, and tabletop). Ethan’s digital alterego can be found at www.captainprimate.com or www.twitter.com/captain_primate.

Jeff Siarto is a user experience and web designer fresh out of grad school at Michigan State University. Jeff was a student of the standards-based web design movement—aspiring to the likes of Cederholm, Zeldman and Meyer—and worked as a web developer throughout his college years before signing on to co-author Head First Web Design in his second year of grad school. In addition to building websites, he also works to improve online courses and open education through simple, usable design. Jeff currently calls Chicago home and works as a freelance web developer and part time Iron Chef challenger. When he’s not working, he likes to cook and eat (mostly eat) and make endless design changes to his blog at www.siarto.com.

You can see what Jeff is doing right now by checking out his Twitter feed at www.twitter.com/jsiarto or, if you’re really bored, you can send him an email at [e-mail].