Jen Simmons Explained

Jen Simmons
Education:Gordon College (BA)
Temple University (MFA)
Occupation:graphic designer, web developer

Jen Simmons is an American graphic designer, web developer, educator and speaker known for her expertise in web standards, particularly HTML and CSS.[1] [2] She is a member of the CSS Working Group and has been prominent in the deployment of CSS grid layout.[3] She worked as a developer advocate at Mozilla and later at Apple.

Life

Simmons earned a BA in sociology from Gordon College in 1991.[4] In 2007 she graduated from Temple University with an MFA in Film and Media Arts. In addition to working on websites since 1998, Simmons is a designer for print pieces and live performance, including projection and lighting design work.[5]

She is a creator of Bartik theme for Drupal, which became one of core themes and a default in Drupal versions 7, 8 and 9.[6] [7] [8]

In 2013 she joined the Responsive Images Community Group one of groups of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).[9]

She was a designer and developer advocate at Mozilla since 2016,[10] where she designed the Firefox browser's Grid Inspector.[11] [12] Since 2020 Simmons is a developer advocate at Apple for the Web Developer Experience team for WebKit and Safari.[13]

Simmons is a member of the CSS Working Group created by the W3C since 2016.[14] She joined CCS WG when working for Mozilla and continued as an Apple employee.[15] She helped prepare and communicate CSS grid layout specification (level 1 and 2),[16] [17] CSS Containment Module Level 3,[18] CSS Cascading and Inheritance (level 5 and 6),[19] [20] CSS Shapes Module Level 1.[21] She was an editor on CSS Box Sizing Module level 4[22] and on CSS Grid Layout Level 3.[23]

Significance

Simmons runs the YouTube channel "Layout Land"[24] [25] and coined the term "intrinsic design" to refer to her philosophy of web layouts that mix fixed, content-sized, and fluid layout.[26] She is a frequent conference speaker at events such as An Event Apart, South by Southwest, Fluent, DrupalCon, and SmashingConf.[27] [28] [29] [30] [31] [32]

Simmons has been on Twitter since 2007 and has over 50 thousand followers.[33] In 2007, she coined the term "fail whale" for the website's error message illustration that showed during outages until 2013.[34] [35] [36]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Chrome is turning into the new Internet Explorer 6 . Warren . Tom . 2018-01-04 . The Verge . 2019-08-30.
  2. Web site: CSS Remedy . Coyier . Chris . 2019-03-04 . CSS-Tricks . en . 2019-08-30.
  3. Web site: Modern CSS with Jen Simmons . CaSE Podcast Team . 2017-03-08 . CaSE: Conversations about Software Engineering . en . 2019-08-30.
  4. Web site: 2016-06-20 . Monday Profile: Jen Simmons . 2019-08-30 . Web Directions . en-US.
  5. Web site: Jen Simmons - An Event Apart . 2019-08-30 . aneventapart.com . en-US.
  6. Web site: 2017-03-30 . Core Themes: Bartik . 2023-03-01 . Drupalize.Me . en.
  7. Web site: 2010-02-22 . Bartik . 2023-03-01 . Drupal.org . en.
  8. Web site: 2016-10-27 . Bartik . 2023-03-01 . Drupal.org . en.
  9. Web site: 2013 . Use Cases and Requirements for Standardizing Responsive Images . 2023-03-01 . www.w3.org.
  10. Web site: Notarianni . Mauro . 2020-06-03 . Jen Simmons, la specialista degli standard web ora lavora per Apple . 2023-03-01 . macitynet.it . it-IT.
  11. Web site: Huijing Chen . 2017-12-04 . Debugging CSS Grid Layouts With Firefox Grid Inspector . 2022-11-01 . Smashing Magazine.
  12. Web site: Jen Simmons Bio . deviated . https://web.archive.org/web/20190830011140/https://talks.jensimmons.com/bio . 2019-08-30 . 2019-08-30 . talks.jensimmons.com . en.
  13. Web site: Mearian . Lucas . 2022-02-10 . Apple wants to know why you hate Safari . 2023-03-01 . Computerworld . en.
  14. Web site: CSS WG members . 2023-03-01 . www.w3.org.
  15. Web site: 2017-05-19 . CSS WG members . 2023-03-01 . 2017-05-19 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170519091733/https://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/members.en.html . bot: unknown .
  16. Web site: 2020 . CSS Grid Layout Module Level 1 . 2023-03-01 . www.w3.org.
  17. Web site: 2020 . CSS Grid Layout Module Level 2 . 2023-03-01 . www.w3.org.
  18. Web site: 2022 . CSS Containment Module Level 3 . 2023-03-01 . www.w3.org.
  19. Web site: 2022 . CSS Cascading and Inheritance Level 5 . 2023-03-01 . www.w3.org.
  20. Web site: 2021 . CSS Cascading and Inheritance Level 6 . 2023-03-01 . www.w3.org.
  21. Web site: 2022 . CSS Shapes Module Level 1 . 2023-03-01 . www.w3.org.
  22. Web site: 2021 . CSS Box Sizing Module Level 4 . 2023-03-01 . www.w3.org.
  23. Web site: 2021 . CSS Grid Layout Module Level 3 . 2023-03-01 . drafts.csswg.org.
  24. Web site: CSS Grid is finally starting to live up to its potential in web design . Slefo . George P. . 2019-07-18 . adage.com . en . 2019-08-30.
  25. Web site: The 15 best new podcasts for web designers and developers . The Media Temple Blog . 3 August 2018 . 2019-08-30.
  26. Web site: The Web Layout Revolution: An Interview with Chen Hui Jing . The Media Temple Blog . 14 May 2019 . 2019-08-30.
  27. Web site: Jen Simmons on Speaker Deck . 2023-03-01 . speakerdeck.com.
  28. Web site: Mozilla Developer Roadshow: A Day Working on CSS Grid + Layout with Jen Simmons . 2023-03-01 . generalassemb.ly.
  29. Web site: Jen Simmons - An Event Apart . 2023-03-01 . aneventapart.com . en-US.
  30. Web site: Jen Simmons's schedule for CSS Dev Conf 2014 . 2023-03-01 . cssdevconf2014.sched.com.
  31. Web site: Web Directions hover 2022 . 2023-03-01 . webdirections.org.
  32. Web site: 2019 . Jen Simmons - SmashingConf SF 2019, April 16–17. . 2023-03-01 . smashingconf.com . en.
  33. Web site: Jen Simmons (@jensimmons) . twitter.com . en . 2019-08-30.
  34. Web site: 2019-08-30. La vera storia della balena di Twitter. The real story of the Twitter whale. 24 January 2015. La Stampa. Italian. 2021-03-08. https://web.archive.org/web/20210308154549/https://www.lastampa.it/tecnologia/2015/01/24/news/la-vera-storia-della-balena-di-twitter-1.35307426. dead.
  35. Web site: The Story of Twitter's Fail Whale . LaFrance . Adrienne . 2015-01-08 . The Atlantic . en-US . 2019-08-30.
  36. 845050439 . jensimmons . Oh, fail whale, you are making my website fail. No more wordpress-twitter-crossposting. . Simmons, Jen . 2007-09-02.

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