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Product, web standards, usability • @csswg Invited Expert • @w3ctag alum • CS/HCI PhD @MIT Also: 🐘 @leaverou@front-end.social • 🦋 @lea.verou.me
Cambridge, MA / Athens, GR lea.verou.me Joined February 2009
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Incredibly honored to have been awarded “Pathfinder for Standards” by @openjsf! 💛

Love the blurb too, made me blush! ☺️:
“Lea is a rare person who has strong academic credentials, has helped create rigorous industry standards, but always focuses on the needs of real world users who have little patience with the underlying theory and mind-numbing detail. Furthermore she has spent much of her career in open source communities building products and services that make those theories and standards truly available to the web community.  During Lea's tenure on the W3C TAG, she not only contributed to the day to day work of design reviews and liaison with the JS standards community, but initiated new work to improve and explain the web's Design Principles to web developers.”

Glad to have been able to receive it in person at #jsconf.
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Introducing 🥁🥁🥁 our JavaScriptLandia award recipients for this year!

Beyond building new features, our recipients guide others, maintain essential systems, document the hard parts, and strengthen the community every step of the way. 💙

Congratulations to all! Read more about our honorees here: hubs.la/Q03NQvx10
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One underrated benefit of AI: it can operationalize (cognitive) empathy.

Most people struggle to see things from someone else's perspective. So many biases in the way: confirmation bias, curse of knowledge, etc.

But at least for anything that exists as text, you can now just ask an agent to review it from the other side’s perspective, with a clean context window. It’s not perfect, but it can be enlightening.

Works for so many things, from high-stakes conversations to contracts!
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🔥 New blog post: The best way to use icons in Web UIs

What if I told you, you could use CSS to *insert* and *tweak* icons without touching any HTML?
And that you can manage them alongside your other design tokens?

lea.verou.me/blog/2026/icon…
lea.verou.me The best way to use icons in Web UIs • Lea Verou What if I told you, you could use CSS to insert and tweak icons without touching any HTML? And that it could be more flexible and maintainable than what you’ve been using?
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