Cindy Li
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| birth_place = Taiwan
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| death_place = Fox Chapel, Pennsylvania, U.S.
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| awards = * In 2012, she was listed as one of .net magazine's 20 Leading Web Designers.
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Cindy Sang-Ching Li (September 5, 1975 – October 15, 2018) was a Taiwanese-American 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.[https://adactio.com/journal/14624 Cindy Li]
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.{{cite web |title=The Cindy Li Interview |url=http://christopher.org/the-cindy-li-interview/ |website=Christopher Schmitt |accessdate=September 3, 2019 |date=July 15, 2008}}
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.{{cite web |title="LIVE 8 ON AOL" WINS FIRST BROADBAND EMMY HONORING PROGRAMS FOR INTERNET, CELLPHONES, PDAs {{!}} The Emmy Awards |url=http://emmyonline.com/day_33rd_creative_live8 |publisher=The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences |accessdate=September 3, 2019 |date=April 24, 2006 |archive-date=September 3, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190903083000/http://emmyonline.com/day_33rd_creative_live8 |url-status=dead }}{{cite news |title=Cindy Li Obituary |url=https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/nytimes/obituary.aspx?n=cindy-li&pid=191901809 |accessdate=September 3, 2019 |work=New York Times |date=March 24, 2019}}
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.{{cite book|title=Professional CSS: Cascading Style Sheets for Web Design|year=2008|isbn=9780470177082|publisher=Wrox|url=https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/professional-css-cascading/9780470177082/}}
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.{{cite web|url=https://www.creativebloq.com/design/20-leading-web-designers-desks-your-inspiration-5123020|title=20 leading web designers' desks for your inspiration|date=May 13, 2012 |access-date=2018-10-27|publisher=.net magazine}}
Books and articles
- Li co-authored the second edition (2008) of Professional CSS: Cascading Style Sheets for Web Design, a guide to using CSS for web design using web standards({{ISBN|9780470177082}}).
- Li's net article Find the perfect colour for your website is a guide to using color to improve the attractiveness and usability of a website while remaining accessible. It was published in 2014.{{Cite web|url=https://www.creativebloq.com/web-design/find-perfect-colour-7116914|title=Find the perfect colour for your website|date=June 16, 2014 |access-date=2018-10-25|publisher=.net magazine}}
Public speaking
Cindy Li gave opening keynotes at web design{{Cite web|url=https://www.webdesigncontest.org/webprofessionals-org-announces-yahoos-cindy-li-as-keynote-speaker|title=Cindy Li will give the opening keynote at the 2012 National Web Design Contest|access-date=2018-10-25}} and user experience{{Cite web|url=https://news.psu.edu/story/142924/2013/01/22/cindy-li-open-web-2013-conference-penn-state|title=Cindy Li to open Web 2013 Conference at Penn State|access-date=2018-10-25}} 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.{{cite web|url=https://aneventapart.com/speakers/cindy-li|title=An Event Apart: Cindy Li Speaker Profile|access-date=2018-10-27}}
Other work
- Book cover designer of The Whuffie Factor{{cite book|title=The Whuffie Factor: Using the Power of Social Networks to Build Your Business|year=2009|isbn=978-0-307-40950-8|first=Tara|last=Hunt|publisher=Crown Business|location=New York|url=https://archive.org/details/whuffiefactor00hunt|access-date=2018-10-27|url-status=|url-access=registration}}{{cite web|url=https://cindyisawesome.lawver.net/posts/tara-hunt/my-cindy-li-story/|title=Tara Hunt: My Cindy Li Story|date=October 23, 2018 |access-date=2018-10-27}}
- Ficlets – user interface design and programming
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