Jeremy Keith
Clearleft co-founder | Web standards advocate, author of Resilient Web Design
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Jeremy Keith is a web developer, author, and speaker who has been building the web for over 25 years. He co-founded Clearleft, a design consultancy, and wrote influential books including 'Resilient Web Design' and 'HTML5 for Web Designers.
' A leading advocate for progressive enhancement, web standards, and the open web, his writing and talks have shaped how a generation of developers thinks about building for the web. He maintains the digital preservation project adactio.
com, one of the longest-running personal websites. With 4 talks at Beyond Tellerrand and other conferences, he speaks on web fundamentals, progressive enhancement, and building for the long-term web.
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The Layers of the Web
Exploration of how the World Wide Web has evolved through layered, iterative changes over 30 years. Discusses building resilient, performant, accessible, and beautiful web structures through progressive enhancement and the principle of least power.
The Web You Wanted
The Web You Want2026
How We Built The World Wide Web In Five Days
Async Brighton2025
Jeremy Keith at Belfast TradFest 2025
Belfast TradFest2025
Jeremy Keith at UX London 2025
Jeremy Keith at Research By The Sea 2025
Jeremy Keith at Declarative Amsterdam 2025
Jeremy Keith at UX London 2024
Jeremy Keith at CSS Day 2024
CSS Day2024
Jeremy Keith at Patterns Day 2024
Patterns Day2024
Of Time And The Web
border:none2023
Declarative Design
Jeremy Keith at Web Summer Camp 2023
Web Summer Camp2023
Web3 and AI
Jeremy Keith at UX London 2023
Jeremy Keith at Design It Build It 2023
Jeremy Keith at Wey Wey Web 2023
Wey Wey Web2023
Jeremy Keith at Stories On The Road 2023
Jeremy Keith at Leading Design San Francisco 2023
In And Out Of Style
Jeremy Keith at We Are Developers World Congress 2022
Jeremy Keith at Web Dev Conf 2022
Web Dev Conf2022
Jeremy Keith at Design It Build It 2022
Jeremy Keith at Leading Design New York 2022
In And Out Of Style
Jeremy Keith at dConstruct 2022
dConstruct2022
Jeremy Keith at Clarity Conference 2022
Sci-fi & Me
The State Of The Web
Jeremy Keith at JS Day 2021
JS Day2021
Jeremy Keith at Web Stories 2021
Web Stories2021
Jeremy Keith at UX Fest 2021
UX Fest2021
Jeremy Keith at Front Conference 2021
Front Conference2021
Jeremy Keith at We Are Developers World Congress 2021
Jeremy Keith at Frontend RheinMain 2021
Jeremy Keith at Future.Works Tech Conference 2021
Jeremy Keith at Shift 21 2021
Shift 212021
Jeremy Keith at Future Sync 2020
Future Sync2020
Jeremy Keith at Tech Nottingham 2020
Tech Nottingham2020
Design Principles For The Web
Building
New Adventures2019
Jeremy Keith at Finch Conf 2019
Finch Conf2019
Going Offline
Frontend NE2019
Going Offline
Jeremy Keith at Techfestival 2019
Techfestival2019
Jeremy Keith at Full Stack Europe 2019
How We Built The World Wide Web In Five Days
Fronteers2019
Building
Web Clerks2019
Building
Going Offline
Going Offline
Jeremy Keith at Code Motion 2019
Code Motion2019
Jeremy Keith at Paris Web 2019
Paris Web2019
Jeremy Keith at Indie Web Camp 2019
Indie Web Camp2019
Jeremy Keith at View Source 2019
View Source2019
Jeremy Keith at Generate CSS 2019
Generate CSS2019
Jeremy Keith at Patterns Day 2 2019
Patterns Day 22019
Going Offline
Frontend United2019
Jeremy Keith at edUi 2018
edUi2018
Jeremy Keith at Front Trends 2018
Front Trends2018
Jeremy Keith at Concatenate Conference 2018
Taking Back The Web
Design4Drupal2018
Jeremy Keith at Voxxed Days 2018
Voxxed Days2018
Resilient Web Design
Boston CSS2018
The Web Is Agreement
Jeremy Keith at Webconf Asia Workshop 2018
The Way Of The Web
An Event Apart2018
Jeremy Keith at Webstock 2018
Webstock2018
Jeremy Keith at IT Challenges 2018
IT Challenges2018
Jeremy Keith at Oxford Geek Nights 2018
Jeremy Keith at Pixel Up! 2018
Pixel Up!2018
Jeremy Keith at Modern Web 2018
Modern Web2018
Jeremy Keith at Confront Conference 2018
Any Site can be a Progressive Web App
Evaluating Technology
Pixel Pioneers2017
Evaluating Technology
An Event Apart2017
Evaluating Technology
Frontend United2017
Building Blocks Of The Indie Web
View Source2017
Evaluating Technology
Evaluating Technology
Evaluating Technology
Evaluating Technology
Jeremy Keith at AMP Conf 2017
AMP Conf2017
Evaluating Technology
Mirror Conf2017
Jeremy Keith at Patterns Day 2017
Patterns Day2017
Jeremy Keith at All Day Hey! 2017
All Day Hey!2017
Resilience
View Source2016
Resilience
From The Front2016
Jeremy Keith at Mobile @Scale 2016
Mobile @Scale2016
Jeremy Keith at Icons Conference 2016
Icons Conference2016
Resilience
GOTO Conference2016
Resilience
An Event Apart2016
Resilience
Nordic.js2016
Jeremy Keith at Dot York 2016
Dot York2016
Resilience
Jeremy Keith at Progressive Web App Dev Summit 2016
Jeremy Keith at Enhance Conf 2016
Enhance Conf2016
Jeremy Keith at Making Web 2016
Making Web2016
Resilience
Jeremy Keith at Craft Conference 2016
Craft Conference2016
Enhance!
Enhance!
Jeremy Keith at dConstruct 2015
dConstruct2015
Jeremy Keith at Indie Web Camp Germany 2015
Resilience
An Event Apart2015
Jeremy Keith at Responsive Day Out 3 2015
Be Progressive
Jeremy Keith at Edge Conference 2015
Edge Conference2015
Resilience
Coldfront2015
Jeremy Keith at Web Expo 2015
Web Expo2015
Jeremy Keith at Smashing Conference 2015
Jeremy Keith at Awwwards Conference 2015
Jeremy Keith at Bulgaria Web Summit 2015
Jeremy Keith at Rustbelt Refresh 2014
Rustbelt Refresh2014
Enhance!
Jeremy Keith at Indie Tech Summit 2014
Enhance!
An Event Apart2014
Enhance!
Smartweb2014
Jeremy Keith at BMoresponsive 2014
BMoresponsive2014
Jeremy Keith at Generate 2014
Generate2014
Jeremy Keith at Smashing Conference 2014
Jeremy Keith at dConstruct 2014
dConstruct2014
Jeremy Keith at Responsive Day Out 2 2014
Jeremy Keith at border:none 2014
border:none2014
Jeremy Keith at Web Conference at Penn State 2014
Jeremy Keith at ConvergeFL 2014
ConvergeFL2014
Enhance!
From The Front2014
Jeremy Keith at Future Of Web Design 2013
Jeremy Keith at UX London 2013
Jeremy Keith at Industry Conference 2013
The Long Web
An Event Apart2013
The Power of Simplicity
border:none2013
Jeremy Keith at The Responsive Day Out 2013
Jeremy Keith at FFWD.PRO 2013
FFWD.PRO2013
The Long Web
Jeremy Keith at dConstruct 2013
dConstruct2013
Jeremy Keith at Handheld Conference 2013
Jeremy Keith at Mobilism 2013
Mobilism2013
Jeremy Keith at Beyond Tellerrand 2013
Jeremy Keith at UX Week 2013
UX Week2013
Full Frontal
2013
Jeremy Keith at dConstruct 2012
dConstruct2012
Jeremy Keith at BrightonSF 2012
BrightonSF2012
Jeremy Keith at Mobilism 2012
Mobilism2012
The Spirit Of The Web
An Event Apart2012
Jeremy Keith at Smashing Conference 2012
Jeremy Keith at Webvisions 2012
Webvisions2012
Jeremy Keith at South by Southwest Interactive 2012
Jeremy Keith at Webdagane 2012
Webdagane2012
Jeremy Keith at Multi-Mania 2012
Multi-Mania2012
Of Time And The Network
Webstock2012
Jeremy Keith at Go Beyond Pixels 2012
Go Beyond Pixels2012
Design Principles
An Event Apart2011
Jeremy Keith at Indie Web Camp 2011
Indie Web Camp2011
Jeremy Keith at Beyond Tellerrand 2011
Jeremy Keith at From The Front 2011
From The Front2011
Jeremy Keith at Mobilism 2011
Mobilism2011
Jeremy Keith at dConstruct 2011
dConstruct2011
All Our Yesterdays
Build2011
Jeremy Keith at Web Directions @media 2011
Jeremy Keith at South by Southwest Interactive 2011
There Is No Mobile Web
One Web
Dibi Conference2011
Jeremy Keith at Drupalcon 2011
Drupalcon2011
Jeremy Keith at DrupalCon 2010
DrupalCon2010
Hot Topics Panel
Jeremy Keith at SHiFT 2010
SHiFT2010
The Design of HTML5
Fronteers2010
Jeremy Keith at dConstruct 2010
dConstruct2010
Paranormal Interactivity
An Event Apart2010
Microformats: A Quiet Revolution
Jeremy Keith at @media 2009
@media2009
HTML5 and CSS3 Wizardry
dConstruct2009
Jeremy Keith at European Accessibility Forum 2009
Future Shock Treatment
An Event Apart2009
Ajax Design Challenges
Web App Summit2008
The Transmission of Tradition
Reboot2008
Building Portable Social Networks
The System of the World
dConstruct2008
Jeremy Keith at Voices That Matter 2008
Patterns in the Process
An Event Apart2008
Jeremy Keith at Web Directions East 2008
Jeremy Keith at User Interface 13 2008
Creating Portable Social Networks With Microformats
XTech2008
Microformats Workshop
dConstruct2007
Bulletproof Ajax
Fundamentos Web2007
How to Bluff Your Way in Web 2.0
Ajax Kung Fu Meets Accessibility Feng Shui
Microformats: The Nanotechnology of the Semantic Web
XTech2007
What is Progressive Enhancement?
Bulletproof Ajax
@media2007
The Beauty in Standards and Accessibility
Ajax Workshop
Reboot
2007
Be Pure. Be Vigilant. Behave.
An Event Apart2007
Ajax: Flash killer?
In Praise of the Hyperlink
Reboot2006
The Joy of API
dConstruct2006
How to Bluff Your Way in DOM Scripting
Using DOM Scripting to Plug the Holes in CSS
@media2006
Hijax: Progressive Enhancement with Ajax
XTech2006
Explaining Ajax
How to Bluff Your Way in CSS
The Behaviour Layer: Using JavaScript for good, not evil
@media2005
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Speakers who appeared at the same event editions as Jeremy
| Speaker | Shared events | Where they appeared together |
|---|---|---|
| Brad FrostCreator of Atomic Design | Design systems pioneer transforming how teams build interfaces | 16 | An Event Apart 2012, An Event Apart 2013, An Event Apart 2014View shared history → |
| Andy BuddDesign leadership expert | Navigating the transition from maker to manager | 9 | @media 2005, @media 2006, @media 2009View shared history → |
| Val HeadWeb animation consultant | Author of multiple books on motion design | 8 | An Event Apart 2018, An Event Apart Chicago 2019, An Event Apart San Francisco 2019View shared history → |
| Harry RobertsCSS Performance and Architecture | Web Development | 7 | DeltaV Conference 2018, New Adventures 2019, Pixel Pioneers 2017View shared history → |
| Nadieh BremerData Visualization | Hacking visual norms and connection visualization | 4 | Beyond Tellerrand Düsseldorf 2017, Frontend Conference Zurich 2017, Frontend United 2019View shared history → |
| Josh ClarkDesigner, Author | 3 | An Event Apart 2018, Artifact Conference 2014, dConstruct 2015View shared history → |
| Daniel BurkaDesign Director | 2 | UX London 2023, dConstruct 2022View shared history → |
| Jason PamentalTypography Expert | Variable Fonts and Web Design | 2 | An Event Apart 2018, Beyond Tellerrand Berlin 2019View shared history → |
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