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WCEU 2014 Speakers: Adrian Zumbrunnen

Happy Monday and say hello to WordCamp Europe 2014 next speaker – Adrian Zumbrunnen from Switzerland.

Adrian is a User Experience Designer, Writer, Speaker and Coffee Enthusiast working in the beautiful city of Zurich. He creates memorable product and communication experiences by consequently putting the user in the center of all creative efforts.

His talk at WordCamp Europe 2014 will be about creating distraction-free web publishing experiences that let people express themselves in richer ways. It targets everyone working with content management software, from developers to designers and end users.

Distractions have always been a natural constituent of our lives. But with the rise of technology and all the digital noise, it has become harder than ever to keep focussing on a specific task. It’s our job as designers to bring back clarity to the digital canvas by providing reading experiences that put readers first.

Read more from Adrian on design, user experience and perception fallacies in his blog. And to make sure we don’t just have Swiss and US speakers at this year’s WordCamp Europe, follow us on Twitter, Facebook, and Google + for more announcements this week.

WCEU 2014 Speakers: Andrew Nacin

We are happy to welcome one of the lead developers of WordPress Andrew Nacin to WordCamp Europe 2014.

Andrew Nacin works for WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg at Audrey Capital, where he is primarily tasked with working on WordPress core and keeping the lights on at WordPress.org.

He is a lead developer of WordPress, wrangling contributions, spearheading initiatives, advising new development, and squashing bugs. He led some of the last major WordPress releases and is also a member of the core security team.

Just as many PHP core developers have with PHP, he and WordPress have a love-hate relationship. If he thought it was perfect, he would find another job. He feels strongly about the core philosophies of WordPress, among them “decisions, not options” — software should be opinionated in lieu of burdening the user with too many options.

He resides in downtown Washington, D.C., with his wife. You can follow him on Twitter at @nacin.

If you haven’t already, read this piece on The qualities of a great WordPress contributor he wrote. Check it out, get excited and join us for WCEU ’14 Contributor Day in Sofia.

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WCEU 2014 Speakers: Karin Christen

We’re happy to welcome swiss interaction designer Karin Christen to the speakers group for WordCamp Europe 2014.

Karin is a co-founder at required+, a swiss based web company with focus on Interaction Design, Mobile Web and WordPress. As an Interaction Designer she is setting her focus on the user’s perspective. Clients hire her to either work on applications with usability issues or to integrate in teams where they start a project from scratch. In here free time she loves to be in the Swiss Alps with her downhill mountain bike.

Karin’s talk in Sofia will target designers and front-end developers alike. The focus will be on rapid prototyping, user experience and interaction design. You’ll get introduced to Karin’s workflow and prototyping setup and learn about her on site work with clients and their UX and front-end teams.

Follow Karin on Twitter @karinchristen.

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WCEU 2014 Speakers: Helen Hou-Sandí

We’re delighted to announce that WordPress core committer Helen Hou-Sandí will join us at WordCamp Europe 2014.

Helen is the Director of Platform Experience at 10up. She also leads the upcoming WordPress 4.0 release (downloaded the WordPress 4.0 beta 2 yet?) so you’ll be able to corner her and hold her accountable for everything you’ll love about the new release.

Helen believes in WordPress as an amazing publishing platform, and loves working on all aspects of WordPress and cool things with WordPress. She is coming to Sofia to share her thoughts on common tasks and pitfalls in developing with WordPress and how we can get them done more easily.

Follow her on twitter @helenhousandi and check out her WordCamp talks on WordCamp.tv.

And on a non WordPress related note, if you’re into classical music, make sure you take a couple of minutes for this from Helen. Smuggling a grand piano into Hall 6 of the National Palace of Culture is now on the #wceu team TODO list.

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WCEU 2014 Speakers: Matt Mullenweg

Hey everyone! We are starting the WCEU 2014 speaker announcements with great news.

The Co-Founder of WordPress Matt Mullenweg will be joining us in Sofia for a Q&A Session.

Apart from co-creating WordPress, the most popular publishing platform on the web, Matt is also the founder of Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com. Additionally, Matt is a principal and founder of Audrey Capital, an investment and research company, supporting innovative ideas, products and services and helping the WordPress.org project.

The one hour session with Matt will be a great chance for you to bring all of your big Qs about the WordPress of things, the decisions that are being made, the stats, and whatever else comes to mind. Go get your (ridiculously cheap) ticket now if you haven’t already and come to Sofia to hang out with Matt.

Also – feel free to shoot your questions for Matt in the comments below, we’ll keep them safe for you till September.

Cheers!

More exciting speaker announcements coming tomorrow, so make sure to follow WordCamp Europe on Twitter (and look for the #wceu hashtag, too), Facebook, and Google +, to get the news first.