Famous Web Designers
It is difficult to select the most influential and famous web designers when there have been so many high caliber individuals that have routinely developed exceedingly remarkable work throughout the last 30 years.
Our Picks: Famous Web Designers
Despite that, we’ve picked six that we think played a pivotal role in the digital world wide web we all know today.
Hover over or tap the flip cards below to learn more information about the designers.
Tim Berners-Lee
Jina Anne
Mike Kus
Lea Verou
Veerle Pieters
Ana Tudor
Designer Portfolios & Blogs
To say nothing of the phenomenal designers and not include links to their portfolios would be a travesty. Check out the links in below to review some of their work.
What Makes Them Special
Click on the accordion tabs below to learn about some of the accomplishments that made these designers unique.
Tim Berners-Lee
- Born in 1955, Tim is the director of the World Wide Web Consortium that he founded and a Professor in the Computer Science Department at the University of Oxford
- Tim’s first career after completing his studies at the University of Oxford at Queen’s College in 1976 was working as an engineer working primarily on transaction systems, message relays, and the technology used for barcodes.
- Berners-Lee holds the founders chair in Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Tim was awarded the ACM A.M. Turing Award “For inventing the World Wide Web, the first web browser, and the fundamental protocols and algorithms allowing the Web to scale.” in 2016.
- In November 2019 at the Internet Governance Forum in Berlin, Berners-Lee and the WWWF launched Contract for the Web – a campaign initiative to persuade governments, companies, and citizens to commit to the nine principles to stop “misuse” by those that aim to exploit, divide, and undermine.
Jina Anne
- Jina makes systems that are designed specifically for people and believes in openness, inclusivity, and community-driven practices.
- Jina worked at Amazon as a Senior Design Systems Lead.
- Jina co-authored the Design Systems Handbook (DesignBetter.co by InVision), Fancy Form Design (SitePoint), and The Art & Science of CSS (SitePoint).
- Jina is on the Sass core team and leads their brand design and website.
- Jina has been featured in digital and print magazines featuring her as a leading creative in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Mike Kus
- Mike has amassed almost 800,000 followers on Instagram.
- Kus is a firm believer in “doing things your way.”
- Mike used to send designs of sneakers to Adidas.
- He has consulted with companies such as Burberry, Red Bull, and Mixture.io, providing graphic and web design services through Mike Kus LTD.
Lea Verou
- Lea is from Greece, but blogs in English.
- Lea has created a variety of single-page websites like Michaelia Hotel.
- She published CSS Secrets: Better Solutions to Everyday Web Design Problems in July 2015.
- Verou has written articles for several magazines in the web design industry.
Veerle Pieters
- Veerle Pieters founded Duoh! in 1992, originally providing print design in the form of logos, stationery, and brochures.
- In 1996, she added web design to Duoh!’s offered services, and in 2000, officially founded Duoh! n.v. with Geert Leyseele.
- If given the opportunity to provide advice to another designer that’s starting out, she would say to inform yourself and to, “keep on learning. Take time to experiment. That is hard, but very important…Reserve time to do something not work related, but creative, even if it’s 15 minutes a day.”
- Veerle hopes to leave a legacy as someone who loved to share her work, experience, and things that inspire people.
Ana Tudor
- Ana regularly writes posts on CSS-tricks.com such as CSS Grid Tricks, Masonry Solutions, Background Patterns, and more.
- She is passionate about experimenting, learning new things, and is a huge fan of technological advance and its applications.
- On a past Meetup event in June 2020, Ana described herself as, “not a dev, designer and most certainly not a role model. Just a stray cat trying to survive.”
In Conclusion
In brief, we only listed a few of the reasons these people benefited the web design community. Given this, we would like to encourage those interested in learning more to check out the resources we included below.
Questions? Let us know in the comments or contact us.
Resources & Further Reading
- AFP/aa. (2019, November 25). Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee launches plan to stop Internet abuse. Retrieved September 10, 2020, from https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/world/web-inventor-tim-berners-lee-launches-plan-stop-internet-abuse-12123526
- Anne, J. (2020, January 1). Jina Anne · People · Clarity. Retrieved September 10, 2020, from https://www.clarityconf.com/people/jina-anne
- Chornyy, A. (2020, June 11). Top 30 Famous Web Designers. Retrieved September 03, 2020, from https://www.plerdy.com/blog/top-30-web-dizaynirov/
- Laurinavicius, T. (2018, June 14). 10 People Who Have Shaped the Web Design Industry. Retrieved September 03, 2020, from https://webdesign.tutsplus.com/articles/10-people-who-have-shaped-the-web-design-industry–cms-31334
- May, T. (2017, June 05). 10 famous web designer portfolios everyone should check out. Retrieved September 03, 2020, from https://www.creativebloq.com/features/10-famous-web-designer-portfolios-everyone-should-check-out
- Timothy John Berners-Lee. (2014, January 16). Retrieved September 10, 2020, from https://www.famousscientists.org/timothy-john-berners-lee/
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