Adrian Roselli

Founder, Executive Vice President

Contact Info:

Offices: Buffalo & New York City
Phone: 716-842-1439
Email: roselli@algonquinstudios.com

Adrian is a founder, partner, and Senior Usability Engineer at Algonquin Studios, responsible for bridging the gap between the worlds of design and technology. With experience in both, he brings a unique perspective to projects, allowing both design and implementation to merge seamlessly.

Adrian has been developing accessible, effective user interfaces for the Web since 1993, as well as interfaces for multimedia and software applications. His experience also includes graphic design, web design and multimedia design, as well as extensive experience in Internet commerce. With a focus on standards and accessibility, he ensures our products can be used by users with varying levels of ability on a wide array of platforms.

Adrian uses HTML, XHTML, XML, XSL, RDF/RSS, CSS, ASP, .NET, PHP, SQL, JavaScript, and other acronyms to implement projects. He enforces accessibility guidelines as outlined in the W3C Web Accessibility Initiative levels A through AAA as well as Section 508 federal guidelines, New York State accessibility guidelines, and even some of the UK and Canadian accessibility guidelines.

He has experience on many platforms and the entire Adobe suite and many other graphic design, page layout, image manipulation, and development applications.

Adrian a founding member and contributor to evolt.org, a community, mailing list and web site made up of web professionals from around the globe who share their knowledge and experience in web development. Evolt.org has been active since 1998.

Adrian has written articles for trade journals, web sites, and participated as an author and editor on several books published by Glasshaus, including Web Graphics for Non-Designers, Cascading Style Sheets and Usability: The Site Speaks for Itself. He has also acted as a technical editor for the same publisher and developer web sites. Adrian's work has been, and still is, cited in many books and articles on usability, accessibility, and interface design.

Adrian earned his bachelor's degree in Media Study at the State University of New York at Buffalo. You can read about his writing and speaking work at AdrianRoselli.com.

Community Involvement

Co-founder, contributor

evolt.org

Member

W3C Web Education Community Group

Member

W3C Federated Social Web Community Group

Advisory committee member

Canisius College: Digital Media Arts program

Advisory committee member

Niagara County Community College: Digital Media program

Advisory council member

Erie 1 BOCES

Committee chair

Erie 1 BOCES Graphic Design Technology Committee

Board Member

Social Media Club, Buffalo chapter

Committee Member

TEDx Buffalo

Guest lecturer

State University of New York at Buffalo

Buffalo State College

Canisius College

Niagara County Community College

Hilbert College

Former vice chair of the board

Oracle Charter School

Former board member

Advertising Club of Buffalo, the Buffalo chapter of the American Advertising Federation

Former marketing committee member (web and social media)

Ride For Roswell

Selected Publications:

"Constructing Usable Shopping Carts"

ISBN: 1590594088, Glasshaus; April 2004

Contributing Author

"Web Professional's Handbook"

ISBN: 159059200X, Glasshaus; July 2003

"Web Graphics for Non-Designers"

ISBN: 1590591712, Glasshaus; November 2002

"A Merger of Content Management and Localization Workflow"

Multilingual Computing Technology; June 2002

"Cascading Style Sheets"

ISBN: 1904151043, Glasshaus; May 2002

Technical Editor

"Usability: The Site Speaks for Itself"

ISBN: 1904151035, Glasshaus; May 2002

"Liquid Design for the Web"

DisplaySearch Monitor; August 30, 2001