Paul Bakaus

UI Lead, jQuery

Paul Bakaus is a UI architect living in Germany. He is the creator and project lead of jQuery UI and works for the open source company Liferay in a full-time sponsored position to jQuery UI. As addition to managing the jQuery UI team, he enjoys speaking about his user interface work in many places of the world. He’s also a member of the jQuery core team and takes part in the discussion of the overall direction of the jQuery project. In the past, he was largely responsible for creating the jQuery dimensions plugin (which is now part of the jQuery core) and worked together with Stefan Petre on the rich effects and components library Interface.

Paul Bakaus is speaking on the Accessible Web Applications panel.