Chris Converse is a designer, photographer, and web developer at Codify Design Studio. He graduated from Rochester Institute of Technology with a degree in graphic design, and began his career in print, designing and preparing digital files for commercial offset printing. Chris has spent the last 15 years studying and applying design and interface principles to technology. His work spans various distribution media (CD-ROMs, web sites, and interactive DVDs) and applies many authoring media and techniques (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, AJAX, image optimization, motion graphics, Flash, Director, Shockwave, sound engineering, digital video compression, PHP, and ASP). Chris has a passion for and a commitment to conceiving, creating, and delivering the best possible user experience, regardless of the medium.

Chris is a regular featured speaker at Adobe MAX, HOW Design and Interactive Conferences, AIGA, and Mogo Media events. Watch his courses on Lynda.com, Find his video workbooks Bring Your Web Design to Life and Creating Interactive Documents on your favorite bookstore’s website, follow him on Twitter and Facebook, read his blog at Smartnocities.com