jQuery User Interface

Core Team

The core team members are responsible for several plugins and the core of jQuery UI. They create a solid base for other plugin contributors to work with.

• Paul Bakaus

  Paul is a UI architect living in Germany. He's the initial creator of jQuery UI and works for the open source company Liferay in a full-time sponsored position to jQuery UI. He's responsible for the overall direction and roadmap of jQuery UI and he's mainly maintaining the core, draggables, droppables, sortables, slider, spinner and magnifier. In the past, he was largely responsible for creating the dimensions plugin and worked together with Stefan Petre on the rich effects and components library Interface.

• Richard D. Worth

  Richard D. Worth is a consultant living in Northern VA (Wash DC suburbs). He actively maintains the selectables and dialog plugins, while also keeping great focus on writing tests for UI components, refining the internal core, and writing good documentation for all components.

• Scott González

  Scott González is a web developer living in Raleigh, NC. He has helped define the common API for all UI plugins and tries to ensure API consistency between plugins. He actively maintains the dialog plugin as well as the core.

• Eduardo Lundgren

  Eduardo Lungren is an engineer living in Recife, Brasil. He invests huge blocks of time to maintain the resizables. He's also responsible for big parts of the new UI website and for the functional demos, and he's always there if you need him.

• Jörn Zafferer

  Jörn has been a driving force of the jQuery core development process, contributing numerous bug fixes and pushing out many of the 1.0.x releases. He's also responsible for completely re-building the jQuery test suite and writing a large number of the test cases. Even better, he know helps the jQuery UI team and contributed his excellent Accordion plugin and Autocomplete plugin while helping to redefine the core.

• Aaron Eisenberger

  Aaron is a senior webmaster and design guru with experience in all realms of traditional design, web design, web application development, user interface design, project management, client interaction, software maintenance and troubleshooting. He contributes the effects of jQuery UI.

Plugins Team

These contributors mainly maintain a single plugin.

• Marc Grabanski

  Marc is the creator of the popular datepicker plugin. After a huge success, he ported it to jQuery UI for everyone to enjoy bundled in a full featured library.

• Keith Wood

  Keith is the co-creator of the datepicker plugin. You can also find some plugins about time control on his personal website.

• Klaus Hartl

  Klaus has been one of the most vocal supporters of jQuery and unobtrusive design on the jQuery mailing list. His ability to expertly explain quality, unobtrusive, solutions to problems is a tremendous boon to the jQuery project. Klaus is working with both the Evangelism & Dev jQuery teams to help promote jQuery and expand its reach, as well as maintaining the Thickbox and Tabs plugins. Starting a couple of months ago, Tabs is now an official UI plugin.