About Stephen

Native Californian Stephen Hay has been living and working in Leeuwarden, the Netherlands since 1992, and designing for the web since 1995. His roots as a designer and art director in corporate identity / packaging design and advertising served as a foundation for his current work as founding partner and Creative Director of Cinnamon Interactive, a standards-based web design and development firm in the Netherlands. Stephen is a popular speaker on the subjects of creativity, web accessibility, (web)design and open web standards, and has published several articles on these subjects. He can be contacted via email at