About the Author

Kristofer Layon is a designer, educator, and conference director. Kris’s first iPhone application, ArtAlphabet, is an early childhood typography flashcard game that went on sale in the App Store in 2009. His consulting company, Aesthete Software, now designs mobile applications for clients in a diverse range of fields including medicine, photography, and education.

He has been a graphic designer since 1993 and a web designer since 1996. Since then Kris has designed sites for engineers, urban planners, city governments, artists, musicians, retailers, the National Park Service, and over 30 higher education clients. In addition to designing websites, he has taught graphic design and typography in the University of Minnesota’s College of Design, where he was also an academic advisor. In 2008 Kris helped establish MinneWebCon, a regional conference for web professionals.

Kris holds a Master of Fine Arts degree in interactive design from the University of Minnesota, and a Bachelor of Arts degree in German and pre-architecture from Saint Olaf College. He is a member of AIGA, the HighEdWeb Association, Design Research Society, and Minnesota Interactive Marketing Association. His work has won design awards from the AIGA and the Society of Marketing Professional Services, and his early adoption of web video was featured on apple.com in 1999.