New Riders Announces Voices That Matter: Web Design Conference

Bestselling Authors and Leading Web Design Experts to Explore Changing Nature of the Industry

Berkeley, CA-June 8, 2010-Web design is undergoing a dramatic transformation: while the basics of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript haven’t changed, the new and developing functionality in HTML5 and CSS3, the number of new ways in which people access the Web, and the rise of social media, mean that Web designers need to know more than ever. New Riders, the leading publisher of books on Web design, today announced the 4th annual: Voices That Matter: Web Design Conference, to be held June 28-29, 2010, at the Mission Bay Conference Center in San Francisco.

The conference, organized and produced by Pearson, brings together New Riders’ bestselling authors, Web designers, and creative professionals from the industry’s top companies and design firms. These include Don’t Make Me Think author and usability expert Steve Krug; computer scientist Tantek Ã‡elik (HTML5 Now); Web design and user-experience evangelist Robert Hoekman, Jr. (Designing the Moment, Designing the Obvious, Web Anatomy); and many others.

The Voices That Matter: Web Design Conference includes workshops and sessions designed to train, inspire, and help solve real-world Web design challenges, now and in the future. These: sessions include:

The Year of Web Typography (Jason Cranford Teague)
The CSS3 Experience (Dan Cederholm)
Designing for the Real Life Social Network (Paul Adams)

The extensive list of conference: speakers includes:

Design Director for NYTimes.com, Khoi Vinh
Web design expert Emily Lewis (author ofMicroformats Made Simple)
Google Senior User Experience Researcher, Paul Adams

For more information, a complete schedule, and a complete list of conference speakers, please visit: www.voicesthatmatter.com/webdesign2010.

About Pearson Technology Group

With the most trusted and recognized brands in the computing arena, Pearson Technology Group (PTG) is the world’s leading publisher of books and training materials focused on advancing the skills of technical, business, creative and professional computing consumers. It’s home to such renowned publishing brands as Addison-Wesley Professional, Adobe Press, Apple Certified, Cisco Press, New Riders Publishing, Peachpit Press, Prentice Hall Professional, and Sams Publishing. PTG is part of Pearson (NYSE: PSO), the international media company. Pearson’s primary operations include Pearson Education, the Financial Times Group and the Penguin Group. Learn more at: www.pearson.com.