30 most influential people in web design

#1 Collis 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.
#2 Vitaly 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!
#3 Matt 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.
#4 Nick 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.
#5 David 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.
#6 Jacob 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.
#7 Jakob 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”.
#8 Jeffrey 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.
#9 David Airey
		David’s WebsitesDavid 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.
#10 Fabio 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.
#11 Veerle Pieters
		Veerle’s Websites Veerle’s Blog – http://veerle.duoh.comDuoh! – 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.
#12 Jacob 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.
#13 Adelle 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.
#14 Adii 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.
#15 Nick 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.
#16 Dennis 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.
#17 Derek Herman
		Derek’s Websites Valen Designs – http://valendesigns.comTwitter – 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.
#18 Mike 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.
#19 Bill 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.
#20 Rob 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.
#21 Cameron 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”.
#22 Jason 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.
#23 Paul 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.
#24 Andrew 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.
#25 Jeff 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.
#26 Dave 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.
#27 Dan 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”.
#28 Dan 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.
#29 Daniel 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.
#30 Andy 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.