Daniel Saunders
Digital Content Designer and Web Developer
Email: dtsaunders@humnet.ucla.edu
Biography
Daniel Saunders is the Digital Content Designer and Web Developer for the Pourdavoud Institute for the Study of the Iranian World and the Yarshater Center for the Study of Iranian Literary Traditions. He brings over a decade of professional experience to the role, including 8 years of running his own freelance practice designing and developing websites for a variety of organizations.
Daniel oversees all aspects of the Pourdavoud Institute's online presence, from designing event graphics to building websites. In his work, he strives to bridge the creative and technological worlds, and is at home pairing typefaces or writing CSS code. He writes about his projects and other topics at his personal website.
Focus Areas
- Web design and development centered around core HTML, CSS, and JavaScript fundamentals
- Web frameworks and front-end tools (Vue, React/Preact, Astro, Node, Express/Hono)
- Design systems
- Digital accessibility and user experience
- Geospatial mapping/visualization
- Publications design and production