Lynda Weinman is founder and CEO of lynda.com, an award-winning software education company that’s been online since 1995. Weinman taught digital design, interactive design, web design, and computer animation at Art Center College of Design, UCLA, American Film Institute, and San Francisco State Multimedia Studies program. Lynda has written and/or produced dozens of best-selling books on creative uses of software, including the first book on web design (Designing Web Graphics, first published in 1996), and has spoken or headlined at numerous conferences and seminars in the US and around the world. She is the co-founder of the first and largest Flash conference in the world: Flashforward.