About jQuery UI
jQuery UI is an open source library of interface components — interactions, full-featured widgets, and animation effects — based on the stellar jQuery javascript library . Each component is built according to jQuery's event-driven architecture (find something, manipulate it) and is themeable, making it easy for developers of any skill level to integrate and extend into their own code.
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jQuery UI Team Leads
Richard D. Worth — Release Manager
Richard D. Worth is a user interface consultant at Richly Interactive in Washigton, D.C. He is Release Manager of jQuery UI and has authored or co-authored the jQuery UI Dialog, Progressbar, Selectable, and Slider plugins. Richard also conributes to the design of the jQuery UI API, automated and manual tests, documentation, and helped write the jQuery Cookbook by O’Reilly.
Scott González — Development Lead
Scott González is a web developer living in Raleigh, NC. As a Development Lead, he puts a lot of effort into keeping jQuery UI, and especially core, small, efficient and consistent. He is also the jQuery UI accessibility team lead and contributed large parts to the Dialog plugin.
Jörn Zaefferer — Development Lead
Jörn is a Java engineer living in Cologne, Germany. He's a Development Lead and contributed his accordion and autocomplete plugins to jQuery UI. He has also been a driving force of the jQuery core development process, pushing out many of the 1.0.x releases. He's responsible for completely rebuilding the jQuery test suite, now known as QUnit, and writing a large number of the test cases.
Todd Parker — Design Lead
Todd, a principal at Filament Group Inc., is lead of the jQuery UI design team with a focus on creating a coherent visual and interaction design system for the widget library. He is also involved with the design of the ThemeRoller application, jQuery UI CSS framework, and the jQuery UI web site.
jQuery UI Design Team
Scott Jehl
Scott is a web designer/developer at Filament Group Inc., and also leads the design team at jQuery.com. He is a member of the jQuery UI design team and is actively involved with the design of the jQuery UI widgets, the jQuery UI CSS framework, and ThemeRoller.
Maggie Costello Wachs
Maggie, production manager and front-end developer at Filament Group Inc., is a member of the jQuery UI design team and collaborates on widget design and documentation, accessible markup structure, and the jQuery UI CSS framework. She contributed working design prototypes for the menu and positionTo widgets.
Patty Toland
Patty is a principal at Filament Group Inc. and contributes to the UI design and documention and ThemeRoller design.
jQuery UI Developer Relations Team
Ralph Whitbeck
Ralph is a Senior Engineer at BrandLogic Corporation. Ralph is currently a Developer Relations evangelist on the jQuery team for jQuery and jQuery UI. He also co-hosts the Official jQuery podcast, a weekly show that interviews key members of the jQuery community.
Adam J. Sontag
Adam J. Sontag is a New York City-based designer and developer dedicated to keeping jQuery UI in sync with the community's needs and wants for the project. He is also a co-host of the yayQuery podcast, which covers news and usage of jQuery and jQuery UI.
Paul Irish
Paul is an active member of the jQuery community, participating in, and administrating the jQuery IRC channels and frequently blogging about jQuery and its functionality. He is also the co-creator of the yayQuery podcast. He maintains the HTML5/CSS3 feature detection library Modernizr, the code generator CSS3 Please, and other open-source tools for front-end developers.
Contributors
David Bolter
David works for the Fluid project and helps jQuery UI to become ARIA compatible as part of a Mozilla funding. He's also part of the jQuery UI accessibility team and works out solutions to make the markup of jQuery UI more accessible and unobstrusive.
Rich Caloggero
Rich is an adaptive technology consultant working for the MIT Adaptive Technology Information Center and the WGBH National Center for Accessible Media. A long-time screen reader user, he appreciates the beauty of well written software and feels that jQuery and jQuery UI should be usable by everyone. He provides detailed feedback on the ARIA implementation and suggestions from the perspective of a screen reader user.
Colin Clark
Colin is the technical lead for the Fluid Project at the Adaptive Technology Resource Centre. He contributes to the jQuery UI accessibility effort, helping make jQuery UI more usable for everyone.
Michelle D'Souza
Michelle is a software developer working on the Fluid Project at the Adaptive Technology Resource Centre. She works on the jQuery UI accessibility effort, and so far has contributed ARIA support and improved keyboard navigation for the dialog plugin.
Klaus Hartl
Klaus is a senior web developer and specializes in front-end development at Nokia in Berlin, Germany. He has contributed a great deal to the Tabs plugin, as its initial creator.
Ca-Phun Ung
Ca-Phun is a web developer and contractor living in Hong Kong. He has contributed large parts of the upcoming spinner component and its automated tests to jQuery UI.
Keith Wood
Keith is the initial co-creator of the datepicker widget and continued to work on it after being included to jQuery UI. Also, you can also find some plugins about time control on his personal website.
Past Contributors
Paul Bakaus — Creator
Paul is the CTO of the germany-based startup Dextrose AG, and his corporate work mostly focusses on UX, UI and tricky JavaScript challenges. In the past, he was largely responsible for creating the dimensions plugin (which is now in core) and worked together with Stefan Petre on the rich effects and UI library Interface. He then went on to start jQuery UI and was the driving force behind many of its plugins. Currently, he’s actively experimenting with new UI patterns and works on a jQuery powered game engine.
Chi Cheng
Member of the jQuery UI documentation team.
Aaron Eisenberger
Initial author of the jQuery UI Effects.
Marc Grabanski
Initial author of the jQuery UI Datepicker.
Thomas Klose
Created the jQuery UI logo and the first jQuery UI theme, flora.
Cody Lindley
Member of the jQuery UI developer relations team.
Eduardo Lundgren
Member of the jQuery UI development team.