8 Best Web Designers in the World

Web design is now one of the most popular internet professions in the world. There are hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of web designers in the world.
However, like any other professions, there are some individuals that stand out among the pack. These designers have taken web design to another level.
This list comprises individuals who are regarded the world over as the best in the profession. For clarity purpose, they are not listed in a particular order.

1. Simon Collison

Simon Collison is based in England. He is a designer, author, and speaker. He is an experienced designer who shares his wealth of experience with other designers and wannabes via conferences and books.

Annually, he organizes an event, New Adventures in Web Design in Nottingham United Kingdom

2. Rachel Andrew

Rachel is an expert web developer, prolific writer, and inspirational speaker. Some of her books cover web design topics like PHP Web Development, Adobe's Dreamweaver Web Design Tool, and CSS3 Layout Modules.
She is the Managing Director of a web development consultancy, edgeofmyseat.com

3. Vitaly Friedman

Vitaly owns Smashing Magazine, a web design blog. This blog has metamorphosed into a reliable source of information for web designers with his different web design resources.
To show how successful he is, he is now into publishing via Smashing Books. He also holds workshops and conferences with some of the best in the field as participants.

4. Ethan Marcotte

Ethan definitely deserves a place on this list. He needs no introduction in the web design world. He is the self-acclaimed voice behind the "responsive web design" buzz

5. Chris Coyier

Chris is an HTML expert and CSS guru. He is a world-known web designer with wealth of experience. He also writes CSS-Tricks, one of the most popular blogs anywhere in the world.
He has compiled his experienced into websites, tutorials, and scripts with the objective of helping designers fine-tune their web design skills.
Chris designs at CodePen and is available on ShopTalk.

6. Karen McGrane

This woman definitely knows her onions. Hear her:  'On a good day, I make the web more awesome. On a bad day, I make it suck less'
Karen is a content strategist and experienced designer with over 15 years of experience in web design. She authored the book, Content Strategy for Mobile. She is currently a partner at Bond Art + Science.

7. Sarah Parmenter

Sarah is an experienced interface designer for iPhone, iPad, and the web. She owns the design studio You Know Who. She also co-host the podcast, Happy Monday. She travels all over the world to speak at notable web design conferences.
Some of her clients are News International, STV, The National Breast Cancer Foundation of Americ, and Blackberry

8.Jeffery Zeldman

This web designer is undoubtedly one of the most popular web designers it the world. He has authored a lot of web design books such as Designing with Web Standards.
If you want to see some of his awesome books, check A Book Apart. The online journal, A List Apart, is his is one of his contributions to web design.
Some of his clients are Ben & Jerry's, MTV, and Stanford University.