Jen Simmons
Layout on the Real Web
Intrinsic web design, and shipping CSS in Safari
Rating
82Impact score
Domains
CSSLayoutBrowser engineering
Scouting report
Coined intrinsic web design for the layout approach Grid and Flexbox actually enable, and spent years demonstrating it in public so designers would stop rebuilding 2010 in a modern browser. Worked on Firefox developer tools including the Grid inspector, and is now an Apple evangelist and CSS Working Group member shipping the features in Safari.
Curator’s note
Argued the web should stop imitating print, then shipped the tools.
Portrait
Painted from a photograph of Jen Simmons by Jeffrey Zeldman, licensed CC BY 2.0.
Sources
- 01Jen Simmons jensimmons.com
- 02CSS Working Group w3.org