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Meet your instructors
Kerem Suer
I'm a designer of digital products in my late 20’s who is little too into simplicity and pixel-perfection. I studied interactive visual imaging and photography in Missouri, and somehow ended up in foggy San Francisco designing things with unbelievably talented teams such as Fitbit, Pinterest, Zendesk, and One Kings Lane.
Luke Beard
I'm a designer & frontend developer. I've been helping startups for the last two years such as Zerply, WillCall, Buffer and Hipstamatic. Some of my personal projects included Skimn for iPad and A Lyric a Day.
Wells Riley
I'm an interaction designer living in Silicon Valley, working at Kicksend. I love creating clean and understandable user interfaces for web and mobile products. Creator of Startups, this is how design works and Retina Mac Apps.
Jared Erondu
I'm a writer and designer from Brooklyn, living in Baltimore. I'm the co-founder of The Industry (a design publication) and Evomail (an iPad email app). I advise companies here and there. In the past I've worked with TED and Treehouse to promote creativity.
Karolina Szczur
I'm a designer and developer working for Nodejitsu. Previously helped numerous startups such as XHTMLized, Future Simple or AdTaily. I discovered a passion for teaching by speaking at conferences along with editing and writing for Smashing Magazine. I also ramble and shoot.
Marc Edwards
I’m the founder of Bjango, an indie Mac and iOS developer. I’m also a designer. I co-host a podcast called Iterate with Rene Ritchie and Seth Clifford. Sometimes I write articles about design for Bjango’s website. I occasionally write for Smashing Magazine and speak at conferences.
Julie Ann Horvath
I'm a designer and frontend developer at GitHub. I like to think of myself as an open source advocate with a big heart for making mockups in markup. I spend a lot of my time speaking at conferences and volunteering to teach (more) women to code.
Jeff Broderick
Speaker & Visual/UI Designer living in beautiful San Francisco, California. Partner at Collective Ray. Working on Luxogram & Loggg. Creator of 4cast.me, StratusApp, iOS Settings Shortcuts & NoMoreBanding.com.
David Kadavy
I'm author of the book Design for Hackers, which debuted at #18 on Amazon. I travel the world speaking about design and entrepreneurship and I write at kadavy.net, for the Design for Hackers newsletter, and in short-form at @kadavy. Previously I freelanced for clients such as oDesk, PBworks, and UserVoice, and founded the design departments at a couple of Silicon Valley startups.
Brian Benitez
I'm Partner & Creative Director at Collective Ray with a passion for both technology and simplicity. Currently living and working in San Francisco, CA. Previously: Disqus, Sourcebits, and Mutual Mobile. Check out some of my recent work on Dribbble.
Grace Ng
I'm co-founder and design lead at Lean Startup Machine and creator of Validation Board. I'm also Lean UX coach for The White House and Wharton UPenn. I fight for the users, push pixels, tweet and write code. See me speak at the upcoming LeanUX Conference.
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