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Jon Tan
Creative Director, OmniTI

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Jon Tan is the Creative Director for OmniTI. He publishes a popular personal site, as well speaking at events like SXSW and SkillSwap around web typography, user experience design, and collaboration.

Jon is also a member of the International Society of Typographic Designers. His work has featured in magazines like .Net as well as countless design galleries including the CSS Zen Garden, and books like the Web Design Index (Pepin Press) and The Principles Of Beautiful Web Design (SitePoint).

Sessions

10:45am Wednesday, 07/22/2009

Grokkin' Design

Design & Usability
Location: Meeting Room J3

Jon Tan (OmniTI)

Average rating:

(3.59, 17 ratings)

Design is 80% science and 20% art. This talk dives straight into the science to give you the techniques to create your own interfaces and demystify design. From using the golden ratio in layout and Fibonacci numbers in typography, to brand design and art direction, it covers it all in simple, tasty, bite-size pieces. Read more.

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