Cindy Li Explained

Cindy Li
Birth Date:5 September 1975[1]
Birth Place:Taiwan
Death Place:Fox Chapel, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Alma Mater:University of Florida, Bachelor's degree in Fine Art
Awards:
  • In 2012, she was listed as one of .net magazine's 20 Leading Web Designers.

Cindy Sang-Ching Li (September 5, 1975 – October 15, 2018) was a web designer, author, and speaker known for her expertise in CSS, user experience, and accessibility. She was a member of the CSS Working Group created by the World Wide Web Consortium.

Li died of cancer at the age of 43 on October 15, 2018.[2]

Career

Li began her design career in 1995 when she was selected to typeset the 1996 Atlanta Olympics wall. She worked for NetChannel—an internet television startup in Norcross, GA, until it was bought out in by AOL in 1998.[3]

Li's work at AOL included the AOLTV project, launched in 2000. She also worked on the AOL Channels: Health and Fitness, Personal Finance, Shopping, AIM Pages, AIM Lite, AOL.com, Ficlets, and Mac Development. In June 2005, Li was the designer of AOL's coverage of the Live 8. She won the first Broadband Emmy Award in 2006 for her work on Live 8 on AOL.[4] [5]

Li worked for Yahoo! after AOL, and was the lead designer for the relaunch of Flickr for iOS in 2012.

She was an author of a web design blog, several articles for net, and co-author of Professional CSS: Cascading Style Sheets for Web Design, 2nd ed.[6]

Awards and recognitions

In 2006, Li won the Broadband Emmy Award for her work on Live 8 on AOL, the first time that a multi-city, around-the-planet event had been broadcast live through the internet without any breaks.

In 2012, she was listed as one of .net magazine’s 20 Leading Web Designers.[7]

Books and articles

Public speaking

Cindy Li gave opening keynotes at web design[9] and user experience[10] conferences, and was a frequent speaker at design and interaction conferences, most notably An Event Apart, Future of Web Design, Open Web Camp, and South by Southwest Interactive.[11]

Other work

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Obituary for Cindy Sang-Ching Li : English Funeral Home. 2018-10-25.
  2. https://adactio.com/journal/14624 Cindy Li
  3. Web site: The Cindy Li Interview . Christopher Schmitt . September 3, 2019 . July 15, 2008.
  4. Web site: "LIVE 8 ON AOL" WINS FIRST BROADBAND EMMY HONORING PROGRAMS FOR INTERNET, CELLPHONES, PDAs The Emmy Awards . The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences . September 3, 2019 . April 24, 2006 . September 3, 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190903083000/http://emmyonline.com/day_33rd_creative_live8 . dead .
  5. News: Cindy Li Obituary . September 3, 2019 . New York Times . March 24, 2019.
  6. Book: Professional CSS: Cascading Style Sheets for Web Design. 2008. 9780470177082. Wrox.
  7. Web site: 20 leading web designers' desks for your inspiration. May 13, 2012 . 2018-10-27. .net magazine.
  8. Web site: Find the perfect colour for your website. June 16, 2014 . 2018-10-25. .net magazine.
  9. Web site: Cindy Li will give the opening keynote at the 2012 National Web Design Contest. 2018-10-25.
  10. Web site: Cindy Li to open Web 2013 Conference at Penn State. 2018-10-25.
  11. Web site: An Event Apart: Cindy Li Speaker Profile. 2018-10-27.
  12. Book: Hunt, Tara. The Whuffie Factor: Using the Power of Social Networks to Build Your Business. 2009. 978-0-307-40950-8. Crown Business. New York. 2018-10-27. registration.
  13. Web site: Tara Hunt: My Cindy Li Story. October 23, 2018 . 2018-10-27.

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