We wrote the book—er, books—on web design and development. And now we want to use our skills to improve the world.

Meet the swarm

Miskeeto is a world-class web design, development, and strategy collective led by Robert Hoekman, Jr. Our consultants are known around the world for their expertise and contributions to the design and development community.

The Miskeeto team is headed up by the following people:


Robert Hoekman, Jr. Robert Hoekman, Jr.

Founder | Interaction design, ideation, strategy

Robert Hoekman, Jr., is a passionate and outspoken interaction designer, writer, and user-experience evangelist who has written dozens of articles and has worked with Adobe, Automattic, United Airlines, DoTheRightThing.com, Go Daddy Software, and countless others to create superior user experiences for a wide range of audiences.

He also gives in-house training sessions and speaks regularly at industry events such as Adobe MAX, Flashforward, SxSW, Future of Web Design, and others.

Robert is the author of the Amazon bestseller Designing the Obvious (New Riders), which focuses on seven guiding principles of great web-based software and how to leverage them in any real-world project. His newest book, Designing the Moment (New Riders), is a collection of design stories from real projects that reveal guidelines for the design of everything from page layouts to social networking interactions, one moment at a time.

Stephanie Sullivan. Stephanie Sullivan

Web design, standards, accessibility

Stephanie is a Dreamweaver, accessibility, CSS and XHTML expert. She's the top gun that companies go to for troubleshooting problems, or to work behind-the-scenes transforming their in-house designs into functioning standards-based sites. She is the author of Mastering CSS with Dreamweaver CS3 (New Riders). She trains corporate web departments and speaks regularly at web conferences such as An Event Apart, Adobe MAX, Voices that Matter, SXSW, Web Design World, HOW Design, Web Master Jam, TODCon, Web Down Under and more.

Passionate about the web, Stephanie is a leader who inspires others to strive for higher standards in their work. She serves as the co-lead of the influential Web Standards Project (WaSP) Adobe Task Force and is a partner at Community MX, a site currently offering over 2500 tutorials to web developers seeking to increase their skills. Her recent clients include Adobe, NY Magazine, Kumquat, POPstick, California State University Fresno, Tronox, WebAssist, and Kosmix, a new health-related search engine.

Kris Hadlock Kris Hadlock

Web development and prototyping

Kris has been a contract web developer and designer since 1996, working with companies such as IKEA, United Airlines, JP Morgan Chase, Pfizer, Thomson Corporation, Takeda Pharmaceuticals, GoDaddy Software, and more.

Kris is the author of Ajax for Web Application Developers (Sams) and a featured columnist and writer for numerous web sites and design magazines, including Peachpit.com, .net magazine, Practical Web Design Magazine (PWD), webreference.com and AjaxWorld Magazine. In addition, Kris has had both design and development articles featured on the cover of PWD, .net and AjaxWorld magazines.

Site credits

Miskeeto's own consultants designed and developed this site.

Here's a list of the contributors: