Dan Mall
Interactive Director
Dan Mall is a multi-disciplined designer, architect, and coder of award-winning websites. His work on the Drexel University Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts & Design site won him a Silver Davey Award, and his design and interactivity expertise won a Silver Addy Award for the Parc Rittenhouse site. He has also won a Web Standards Award for his work on the Decibel Magazine site.
Dan created code and design for such distinguished clients as Siemens, the Kansas City Chiefs, The New York Stock Exchange, Comcast, the Lincoln Financial Group, and Traffic.com, among many others. His comprehension and advocacy of user-based design principles has earned him a prominent position and “young-designer-to-watch” reputation in the worldwide design community.
Dan writes about the details of user interface design on his industry-recognized personal site, danielmall.com, is a technical editor on A List Apart, and has been a contributing writer for A List Apart and .NET Magazine. swfIR, a client-side image replacement technique Dan co-created with Happy Cog’s Mark Huot, has been widely adopted by web designers and profiled in Computer Arts Magazine. (Boagworld interviews Dan and Mark in its Show No. 81 podcast.) When not in front of a computer, Dan plays keyboards for Philadelphia-based contemporary Christian group Four24.
Selected Articles and Publications
- swfIR: swf Image Replacement
- May 2007, .NET Magazine
- Semantic Flash: Slippery When Wet
- February 2007, A List Apart