30 Most Influential People In Web Design
Here are the top 30 most influential people in web design. This list is in order starting from the most influential person at number 1, all the way down to 30. The order we have put the list in is through our eyes. If you would put someone else at number one, who would it be? Drop us a comment. Anyway, enjoy reading through the list! (Its taken a long time to perfect)
* * * 30 People Who Know Lots About Web Design * * *
#1Collis Ta’eed | ||
 | Collis’ Websites Envato – http://www.envato.com TutsPlus – http://tutsplus.com - About Collis Ta’eed Collis Ta’eed is the founder / creator of the company Envato (formally Eden). Collis first came across Photoshop at university, and realized this is what he wanted to do. Since then he has built up the Envato network to one of the biggest creative communities online to date. - Envato has many sites within its network, including tutorial sites, design blogs, web galleries and creative marketplaces such as flashden and audiojungle. | |
#2Vitaly Friedman | ||
 | Vitaly’s Websites Smashing Magazine – http://www.smashingmagazine.com - About Vitaly Friedman Vitaly is one of the founders of the popular smashingmagazine.com. Smashing magazine is an extremly popular web design blog, which has over 130,000 RSS Subscribers and is hosted on 7 servers. - The Design compilations that vitaly puts together on smashing magazine and simply amazing. Smashing Magazine is one of the most talked about blogs online to date. Well done Vitaly! | |
#3Matt Mickiewicz | ||
 | Matt’s Websites Sitepoint – http://www.sitepoint.com - About Matt Mickiewicz Matt is the founder and creator of sitepoint. Sitepoint is the largest website online for web designers and developers. It ranks under the top 1000 websites online to date. - Sitepoint has a very popular forum and marketplace, plus they also publish books and host design contests. | |
#4Nick La | ||
 | Nick’s Websites N.Design Studio – http://www.ndesign-studio.com Best Web Gallery – http://bestwebgallery.com Web Designer Wall – http://www.webdesignerwall.com Icon Dock – http://icondock.com - About Nick La Nick La is a freelancer specializing in illustration and web design. Nick is based in Toronto, Canada. His main focuses are designing stock icons, beautiful css websites and illustrations. - Nicks work has been featured all across the internet on various blogs and web galleries. | |
#5David Leggett | ||
 | David’s Websites Tutorial9 – http://www.tutorial9.net UxBooth – http://www.uxbooth.com The Leggett – http://www.theleggett.com - About David Leggett David designed his first website when he was only ten years old. Since then he has created an amazing web design blog called tutorial9, in which he teaches people about photoshop and design. - UxBoot is another one of his websites that offeres website reviews, and free web resources to all its readers. | |
#6Jacob Gube | ||
 | Jacob’s Websites Six Revisions – http://sixrevisions.com Twitter – http://twitter.com/SixRevisions - About Jacob Gube Jacob is the founder is Six Revisions, one of the most popular web design and development blogs on the internet. The content that is published on six revisions is simply amazing, and provides extremly useful information to web designers and developers worldwide. | |
#7Jakob Nielsen | ||
 | Jakob’s Websites UseIt – http://www.useit.com HappyWebbies – http://www.happywebbies.com/store/detail/jakob-nielsen/ - About Jakob Nielsen Jakob has his own websites over at useit.com. Jakob has many different names, such as “The king of usability”, and “The smartest person on the web”. | |
#8Jeffrey Zeldman | ||
 | Jeffrey’s Websites Happy Cog – http://www.happycog.com/about/zeldman/ Jeffrey Zeldman – http://www.zeldman.com Twitter – http://twitter.com/zeldman - About Jeffrey Zeldman Jeffrey Zeldman is a writer / author, and designer. His personal blog zeldman.com has been around since 1995 (14 years!), and is one of the oldest published blogs on the internet. - Jeffrey Zeldman has been involves in many projects including the Web Standards Project, and A List Apart. | |
#9David Airey | ||
 | David’s Websites David Airey – http://www.davidairey.com LogoDesignLove – http://www.logodesignlove.com - About David Airey David is a graphic designer living in northan ireland. He specializes in logo design and brand identity. His blog has around 14,000 RSS Subscribers, and his portfolio is also hosted on davidairey.com. - Another one of Davids projects includes Logodesignlove.com, which also has over 13,000 RSS Subscribers. His work is featured in many web galleries and blogs. | |
#10Fabio Sasso | ||
 | Fabio’s Websites Abduzeedo – http://abduzeedo.com Fabio Sasso – http://fabiosasso.com Zee – http://zee.com.br Twitter – http://twitter.com/abduzeedo - About Fabio Sasso Fabio has his own personal website in which he features many of his personal designs. Abduzeedo is Fabio’s design blogs in which he has some amazing content. - Fabio also ownes his own web design company called Zee, which you can find at zee.com.br. | |
#11Veerle Pieters | ||
 | Veerle’s Websites Veerle’s Blog – http://veerle.duoh.com Duoh! – http://www.duoh.com - About Veerle Pieters Veerle began her career in 1992, when she became a freelance designer under the name of Duoh! She founded the name duoh.com in 2000. - Veerles design blog has been around for many years. Her design work is very inspirational, and every piece is 10/10 for quality. | |
#12Jacob Cass | ||
 | Jacob’s Websites Just Creative Design – http://justcreativedesign.com Twitter – http://twitter.com/justcreative - About Jacob Cass Jacob has his blog and portfolio at the same domain name. He is the founder of Just Creative Design, and is currently 21 years old. - Jacob is a very talented indervidual in the design niche. You just have to look at his portfolio to see it. He does an array of different design work that includes web design, logo design, print and much more. | |
#13Adelle Charles | ||
 | Adelle’s Websites Fuel Your Creativity – http://www.fuelyourcreativity.com Fuel Brand Group – http://fuelbrandgroup.com Adelle Charles – http://adellecharles.com - About Adelle Charles Adelle is the creative director for the Fuel Brand Group. She is responsible for all the creative design around all the fuel brand sites. She is also an Art Director and a designer for a TV Station. - She also has a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Graphic Design from Rochester Institute of Technology. | |
#14Adii Rockstar | ||
 | Adii’s Websites Adii – http://adii.co.za Radiiate – http://radiiate.com WooThemes – http://www.woothemes.com Twitter – http://twitter.com/adii - About Adii Rockstar Adii Rockstar formally knows as Adriaan Pienaa is a successfull internet entrepenur. Adii has his own personal blog, and is the founder of woothemes, and Radiiate Web Solutions. | |
#15Nick Finck | ||
 | Nick’s Websites Nick Finck – http://nickfinck.com Twitter – http://twitter.com/nickf Flickr – http://www.flickr.com/photos/digitalweb/ - About Nick Finck Nick Finck is a speaker and community cultivator. He has created web experiences for fortune 50 and 500 companies. These companies include Adobe, IBM, HP, Microsoft and many others. | |
#16Dennis Hwang | ||
 | Featured In Google Blog – http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2004/06/oodles-of-doodles.html Guardian Online – http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/sep/05/google.doodle - About Dennis Hwang Dennis is the official Google Doodlist. He has created over 150 doodles for Google. His name is not well known, but his work has been seen by billions of people on the Google homepage. He creates new doodles for Google when there are events happening, such as easter, Googles Birthday, Halloween, Start of summer, etc. | |
#17Derek Herman | ||
 | Derek’s Websites Valen Designs – http://valendesigns.com Twitter – http://twitter.com/valendesigns - About Derek Herman Derek is the founder of Valen Designs. Valen specializes in Web Design, Search Engine Optimization, Branding and Application Development. Derek has worked on many websites, including sites within the Envato network. | |
#18Mike Kus | ||
 | Mike’s Websites Carsonified The Things We Make – http://www.thethingswemake.co.uk - About Mike Kus Mike is the senior designer for Carsonified. He joined in May 2008, and has been in design for many years before. Mike is a very creative designer, and he works wonders for Carsonified. - He also has a personal site over at thethingswemake.co.uk, which includes his flickr photo stream, and his portfolio. | |
#19Bill Beachy | ||
 | Bill’s Websites Go Media – http://v5.gomedia.us/about/bill.php Twitter – http://twitter.com/william_beachy - About Bill Beachy Bill is the president of Go Media. It took several years before he could start to hire other people to work for his company, but now it has a vast number of employees. - Go Media was originally called Graphic Odysseys, until it merged with Next Level Multimedia in 2003. | |
#20Rob Palmer | ||
 | Rob’s Websites Branded07 – http://www.branded07.com - About Rob Palmer Rob is 25 years old and a graphic designer based in newcastle upon tyne, UK. He is skilld in almost every Adobe package, and knows many programming languages. - He uses Branded07 to post tutorials, write about his personal life and host his portfolio. | |
#21Cameron Moll | ||
 | Cameron’s Websites Cameron Moll – http://cameronmoll.com Authentic Jobs – http://authenticjobs.com - About Cameron Moll Cameron Moll is an inspirational web designer. His code is clean, and he is one of the most balanced designers. Many companies have recognizes Camerons work. - Cameron has a personal site in which he hosts a shop, his blog and his design portfolio. He also has a job board named “Authentic Jobs”. | |
#22Jason Santa Maria | ||
 | Jason’s Websites Jason Santa Maria – http://jasonsantamaria.com An Event Apart – http://aneventapart.com/speakers/jasonsantamaria/ Twitter – http://twitter.com/jasonsantamaria - About Jason Santa Maria Jason is a graphic designer that currently lives in Brooklyn. On his personal site he hosts his portfolio and also writes about Technology, Business and the Web. | |
#23Paul Boag | ||
 | Paul’s Websites BoagWorld – http://boagworld.com HeadScape - About Paul Boag Paul hosts the podcast BoagWorld, along with Marcus Lillington. Paul and Marcus had already worked together for years, creating the web design company HeadScape. - BoagWorld is the longest running, and most popular web design podcast on the internet. | |
#24Andrew Maier | ||
 | Andrew’s Websites Designer Andrew – http://www.designerandrew.com UxBooth – http://www.uxbooth.com/author/andrewmaier/ Twitter – http://twitter.com/andrewmaier - About Andrew Maier Andrew is a web / graphic design freelancer. He is currentl living in Atlanta, GA. He writes frequent articles for uxbooth.com. His intrests are in web standards, usability, and human-computer interaction. | |
#25Jeff Croft | ||
 | Jeff’s Websites Jeff Croft – http://jeffcroft.com BlueFlavor – http://blueflavor.com - About Jeff Croft Jeff has been working online for a good 12 years. He works for a design company called blueflavor, but he also does his own bit of freelancing on the side, through his personal website jeffcroft.com. - Jeff hosts all his favorite links, photos and his portfolio and blog on his personal website. | |
#26Dave Shea | ||
 | Dave’s Websites Bright Creative – http://www.brightcreative.com Zen Garden – http://www.csszengarden.com MezzoBlue – http://mezzoblue.com - About Dave Shea Dave ownes a one man design studio, named Bright Creative. He has a very uplifting portfolio and loves icon design. - He has many projects including Zen Garden, and his own personal web blog over at mezzoblue.com. | |
#27Dan Cederholm | ||
 | Dan’s Websites SimpleBits – http://simplebits.com IconShoppe – http://www.iconshoppe.com Hand Crafted CSS – http://handcraftedcss.com Own Someone A Drink? – http://foamee.com - About Dan Cederholm Dan is the founder of simplebits, a web design studio. He also has many other projects he has worked on, such as iconshoppe and foamee. Dan has wrote his own book alongside Ethan Marcotte, called “HandCrafted CSS”. | |
#28Dan Richard | ||
 | Dan’s Websites Pixel2Life – http://www.pixel2life.com Dan Richard – http://www.danrichard.com - About Dan Richard Dan is the founder of pixel2life.com, the biggest tutorial index on the planet. Pixel2life has tutorials in over 80 different categories! It allows people to submit tutorials to its large and ever growing index. - Dan also ownes his own personal blog over at danrichard.com in which he blogs about tutorials, design work and much more. | |
#29Daniel Mall | ||
 | Daniel’s Websites Daniel Mall – http://danielmall.com HappyCog - About Daniel Mall Dan is a interactive designer, living in Philadelphia. He specializes in Flash, XHTML, CSS and Typography. - Daniel also works for Happy Cog Studios. He created beautiful websites, and publishes his best ideas to a worldwide community. | |
#30Andy Clarke | ||
 | Andy’s Websites Stuff And Nonsense – http://www.stuffandnonsense.co.uk For A Beautiful Web – http://www.forabeautifulweb.com - About Andy Clarke Andy has been working online for around 10 years. He moved to Wales to escape busy London. He has his own web design business called stuff and nonsense. - Andy also has a blog that teaches people web development, and hosts training workshops. You can catch this over at forabeautifulweb.com. | |
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Henry (2 years ago)
Wow! This was very interesting hope to see my name included within a couple of years!
spinermobile (2 years ago)
Everyone in this list is awesome and an inspiration to all designers of every possible flavor….except for David Leggett. And certainly not in the 5th position. That guy is like the Paris Hilton of designers. No one knows WHY he’s famous, it’s not like he’s an uber-talent like Nick La for example, which, by the way deserved a good first place, nor did he ever reach such useful heights as the likes of Fabio Sasso, which I believe deserved second place.
I’m disappointed not to see the likes of Elliot Jay Stocks or Eric Meyer or Chris Coyier making the list.
Waiting for all the tutorial9 lovers to start bashing…
PelFusion (2 years ago)
i think you missed noupe.com and mine pelfusion.com
Daniel St. Jules (2 years ago)
OMGNOOBUSUCK!1!1!
Although you’re entitled to your own opinion, it’s quite arrogant of yourself to think that you speak on behalf of all designers when claiming that Leggett is merely a fluke. Perhaps it’s simply that you can’t comprehend the reason for his own success, or you’d rather deny it for whatever reason. Either way, no one elected you as spokesman, and I certainly disagree with your opinion. (and I’m not even a tutorial9 lover)
Michael C (2 years ago)
I am in love with David Leggett. Much like Governor Mark Sanford claims that Argentinean woman is his “soul mate”, David Leggett is mine. I am head over heels for him. My days will always be brightened by his beautiful face and I look very forward coming to know him better as I wake up near him each day.
Mahallo Media (2 years ago)
Great post man, thanks for this designers list!
kalyan (2 years ago)
I’m already following most of these influential people
also, what abt hongikat?
Alexis (2 years ago)
Danny Outlaw should’ve been on this list.
Danny Outlaw (2 years ago)
I agree, this list seems more like the writers personal favorites, than actual influential people in the industry.
Im not saying these people aren’t talented or influential, but I think there are plenty of others who have done more for the community and industry than some of the people listed here.
That said, props to the writer for taking the time to create such a list of TALANTED web designers.
Alex Rogahn (2 years ago)
I think there are a few other people that deserved a mention, like, as said before: Chris Coyier and Elliot Jay Stocks as well as Chris Spooner. As for all this “Why is David Leggett on here?” malarky, because people look up to him and he is a good designer. Tbh you can’t really put designers in places I think, can;t give a valid reason just my opinion
Now where is my name? Perhaps there’s been some misunderstanding as I cannot see it anywhere… xD
Adelle Charles (2 years ago)
Wow appreciate the inclusion on this influential list! I’m quite humbled to be surrounded by all these great people!
stk (2 years ago)
Hard to come up with a list. No doubt there should be more included and/or replaced.
I’d vote for Stu Nichols.
Andy (2 years ago)
Thanks everyone for all your comments!
This did take hours to research and write, and of course we couldn’t include everyone. Sorry if we missed out people, but the internet is soo big!
My favorites are Dan Cederholm and Adii Rockstar. Could spend hours on their websites!
Derek Herman (2 years ago)
Thank you for including me in your list. Not sure I should be on it, but definitely appreciate the nod regardless. I guess years of not sleeping landed me on a list with some true heavy weights.
Congrats to all those who got a little more recognition for all their hard work. Maybe next time we could do this as a poll to see who everyone else thinks deserves the credit.
Cheers!
kidino (2 years ago)
Great list. But wondering who are the guys behind deviantart and alistapart.
Cheryl Gledhill (2 years ago)
Great list but really – 2 women out of 30 people?
Andy (2 years ago)
This list is somewhat absurd when your rank them 01 to 30. Why not make it in an alphabetical order?
Your #1 and #2 are absolute heavyweights, but they surely aren’t as influential as Zeldman or Nielsen.
Zeldman’s “Designing with Web standards” came out in 2001. By that time, 99% of us were still doing sites in tables and the Flash overkill was yet to come.
Also criminally overlooked to me: 456bereastreet.com (the lab and blog archive is a must read!), Eric Meyer (!!!), John Gallant / Position is Everything, D. Bowman / Stopdesign, Shaun Inman / Mint / sIFR, Andy Budd, Jonathan Hicks, Stu Nicholls (CSS Play is an incredible resource) …
George Esses (2 years ago)
Congrads NICK and JEFFREY !!!!!!!!!!!!!
Zach Dunn (2 years ago)
There were two fascinating people on here that I hadn’t heard of before — Dennis Hwang and Derek Herman.
I didn’t realize that one man was responsible for all the Google banners. Also, after looking at Derek’s site, it makes sense that he designs for Envato. Thanks!
chazzuka (2 years ago)
agree with @Alex Rogahn Eliott & Chris Spooner should be in the list, and yes the list is based on writer personal opinion, i think it will be better to create a polling and list based on the result
Andy (2 years ago)
I agree, a poll would be nice. Maybe next weeks poll?
Gringo (2 years ago)
Why stop at insinuating gender bias? Let’s throw the race card in there too, make things really interesting.
Or maybe it’s just a list of talented *people*.
Just sayin’.
mojaam (2 years ago)
Don’t want the world of webdesigners to become limited to a select few people but this is kind of cool.
Missing ex-Google employee Douglas Bowman (now Creative Director at Twitter) and I’m sure a bunch of others to but it’s a start.
Paulo Pereira (2 years ago)
Great list?! LOL
I can’t understand why people like Shaun Inman, Tim van Damme or Elliot Jay Stocks aren’t in this list.
rob torres (2 years ago)
This list is deep with talent, but I need to throw another hat in the ring…
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Ashley (2 years ago)
@kidino: Jeffrey Zeldman, Jason Santa Maria, all Daniel Mall on this list, are part of the group behind A List Apart. Amongst many other talents: http://www.alistapart.com/about/
Andrew (2 years ago)
Lots of great talent on this list. Some names more familiar than others, maybe not as much for their talents in design as their talents in being remarkable. nice post.
Nokadota (2 years ago)
Oh this writeup is just fantastic! I already look at a couple of these designers for inspiration and such and now I have more.
Thanks for this great article.
Nate Abele (2 years ago)
Given that I haven’t heard of most of the people on this list, I’d say you’re on the wrong track.
Nicole (2 years ago)
First, I think an honorable mention should go out to Lynda Weinman of Lynda.com. I know I wasn’t the only one back in ’95-’96 reading her “Designing Web Graphics” book, figuring out what the difference between a JPG and a GIF was, and using the hex color chart as a reference.
Even though times have changed and she’s moved on to tutorials/events, she was still one of the early “big” names in the industry.
Second, several of the early big names in Web Design & Dev are missing from this list. Heck, you mention Dave Shea but not Molly Holzschlag? She co-authored Zen of CSS Design with Dave Shea! (I agree with Cheryl Gledhill – only 2 women on the list?)
And, what about Jared Spool? (Hello! uie.com!) Also, no Apple/OSX designers? Once OSX hit, every site had the jelly buttons/icons & gradients on their site – the look of Web 2.0.
Third, what was the criteria for creating this list?
Dan (2 years ago)
Great article!
@ Cheryl Gledhill: There are obviously loads of extremely talented and influential women in the design world. Why leave a blatantly sexist comment?
Sorry but these kinds of derailing comments kind of rub me wrong.
Dan (2 years ago)
Oh yeah, forgot to mention Chris Coyier should make your next list!
Onur Oztaskiran (2 years ago)
I believe the title for the post is a little irrelevant. (web design?O_o)
Despite everyone listed in here are extremely respected people, not all of them are really related with web design.
But yes, great list for keeping an eye on the entrepreneurs.
John Allsopp (2 years ago)
Dan,
care to reread your comment?
Pointing out that women are massively under represented in this list is sexist? Perhaps you should ponder that a little.
+1 for Cheryl’s comment (disclosure, she’s a friend, but I spotted this comment quite by chance).
Aaron (2 years ago)
For the CSS reset alone, Eric Meyer should be somewhere on this list.
I guess that’s the problem with blogging top lists, one person tries to justify his/her viewpoint regardless of self imposed bias … and that viewpoint somehow becomes “credible” to hundreds of site visitors just because of the wording in the post tile.
There is no win or lose here, only food for thought.
Aaron (2 years ago)
But I strongly agree with the author on Collis as the number 1. Envato will have a web design monopoly if they keep growing at their current pace.
Sumeet Chawla (2 years ago)
Great list but i think Chris Coyier should have been there too
I literally learned everything from his site! 
praveen (2 years ago)
This list is ridiculous!
How could you ever forget Eric Meyer, Mark Boultan and Douglas Bowman? Moreover, Andy Clarke, Dave Shea, Cameron Moll, Dan Cederholm and Jeff Croft deserve top ten.
Michael Kozakewich (2 years ago)
Okay, I’m wondering where Bowman is. #0? So amazing, and so far up the list, that he fell off?
Dainis Graveris (2 years ago)
that’s one impressive list, but yeah, I would order this list a much more different and also people, who comment got the point.. Eric Meyer is really one of the celebrities in web design, such person and several others, cannot be excluded from list, if you want to be it complete..:)
I enjoy it anyway, unique approach to article
Css Websites (2 years ago)
Great list, hopefully someday my name will be that on list. Do you have a list of daydreamers or frustrated web designer. Thanks for the list
JohnONolan (2 years ago)
“I think there are a few other people that deserved a mention, like, as said before: Chris Coyier and Elliot Jay Stocks as well as Chris Spooner.”
Agreed.
spinermobile (2 years ago)
Ok, Leggett: you’re an idiot. First you go ahead and agree with me and say that yes, you have nothing to do on this list, which you don’t, and then your comment is deleted.
This guy hasn’t written a tutorial since January! It’s one thing to be like Sean Hodge or Fabio, people that don’t have time to write tutorials every week (although Fabio has been writing a lot more than he used to, lately) because you have 12 websites to run or because your website requires your full attention.
Tim Smith: you’re an even bigger idiot. Leggett didn’t take the bashing well. He bent on his knees and said “yes, I do suck” with the stupid smile I always imagined him to have whenever he doesn’t like something but he knows it’s true.
Daniel St. Jules: I’m not speaking on behalf of every designer out there. It was merely my personal opinion and I never claimed to be a spokesman for anyone but myself. Are you that offended by my comment that you feel the need to invent a scenario where I do take it upon myself to speak for an entire community?
I’m sick and tired of posts like this: 4500 Best Stuff Ever or whatnot and when you read it you find it’s only a disappointment. What are we, Google? Have humans started to think like web spiders and robots? Give me a good How to do this in this software tutorial any day of the week. Twice on Sunday, please.
Heider Torres (2 years ago)
Great list man! Thanx!
nomad-one (2 years ago)
Nice list of popular faces, some really influentials and a few who have managed to get loads of traffic. I’d say this is not the most calculated of lists though, nor have the people really been assessed very well in terms of their “Web Design” influence.
Example, how can Zeldman possibly be so far down this list? You obviously haven’t assessed relative influence properly. Unless the list is not in order which you said it is.
Of course yes, you are entitled to your opinion, but it seems to not be the most informed opinion. Eg,David Airey though I respect his contribution to the Logo Design blogging world is not particularly a huge web design influence at all.
I suspect this list was created to mean the most influential to newbie web designers? The list contains many who are relatively new to the web design scene and are probably more influential as bloggers. Maybe the most influential web design bloggers of 2008?
Having said all of that, the list is a good one, influential these people definitely are in some way or another, but maybe not so apt for the intended purpose.
emma (2 years ago)
I have seen the work of ‘Vitaly Friedman’ and ‘Jakob Nielsen’. They are real gems.
Matches (2 years ago)
YEAH. Sasso Abduzeedo.
For me he’s the number #1.
spinermobile (2 years ago)
Chris: good point. I agree with you. I guess I got dragged into a rather violent state of mind because of the, as you say, <>.
It shouldn’t be taken so serious. Thanks for pointing that out.
Scott (2 years ago)
I must admit there are only a few names on this list that I know, and not many others that I believe should be on this list; but your opinions (the commenter’s that is) is entirely yours and I can’t (and won’t) flame you for it.
I do however have the issue of modifying and deleting comments, I accept innapropriate comments needing to be removed but to modify and the REMOVE David’s comment(s) was, in my opinion, a bad move.
Actions like this are making it a fast-track to loosing a regular reader, and by extension a regular visitor and forum participant.
MicheBel (2 years ago)
Really? Only a couple women? And the first one is past the top ten? Really now.
So, did dudes compile this list?
Curious.
–M
Kay (2 years ago)
Lou Rosenfeld not here?
brian (2 years ago)
Take the feminist BS somewhere else… Seriously. If they were amazing, they’d be on the list. Wahhhh
Andy (2 years ago)
^ Brilliant!
Shane Rounce (2 years ago)
Maybe “dudes” are simply leading the way in this industry?
C Donnatucci (2 years ago)
Angry Much?…..Nice list, I’m sure more to come.
Chris (2 years ago)
Lists like this are simply conversation fodder and aren’t meant to be taken seriously, right?
For those people who think there’s been some slight to the same names that have appeared on every single other list ever crafted since 2001, let’s at least appreciate maybe there is some new blood to at least consider. Maybe New Girl X isn’t as “reputable” as SuperStarHouseholdName Y, but hell, don’t we already all know what book SuperStarHouseholdName already published and already visit that blog?
Look at this way, for any baseball-following Americans: if every year ESPN came out with the ten best baseball players, you’d always, always have Babe Ruth, Hank Aaron Mickey Mantle, Cy Young, Willie Mays, leaving you maybe a player who suited up since 1970. That list would get pretty old and tired after a few reads, right? Frankly I already know what most of these guys have done, and I’m at least more curious to see names I didn’t recognize to see if they’re up to snuff.
I guess the problem is the rather pretentious “Most Influential” title in the post, since that’s a pretty tall order to measure.
Tanya (2 years ago)
@Dan, how is Cheryl Gledhil’s comment sexist? I’m sure you meant the list, not her comment since you agree there are, “loads of extremely talented and influential women in the design world.”
Jason Beaird (2 years ago)
I’m going to sidestep the flame war going on up there and just say thanks for putting this list together, Andy. I have my own list of inspirational web designers as well (a few of whom are on this list), but getting to see your list has a lot of value of it’s own. I think a lot of commenter are missing the point that this is a blog article, not a be-all and end-all list of who’s who.