Krystyn Heide

Krystyn Heide is a web designer, writer, and speaker living in New York City, New York. She is Senior Designer at Squarespace and writes about web design, technology, art and music on her blog, Squaregirl since 1997. Heide also founded HOPErevo, an international random kindess project.
Squarespace
Squarespace's user base currently includes designer Marc Ecko, ABC World News Tonight host Bob Woodruff and other noteworthy clients whose sites were designed and developed by Heide.
HOPErevo
Heide started her online "hope revolution" after finding a random note in a coffeeshop, described as "a hateful tirade directed at anyone who might be compassionate towards the homeless". Near the shop, crowds and news trucks were gathering outside the loft where Heath Ledger had been found dead.
She decided to write a positive note, and stuck it back where she had found the negative one. She continued writing "hope notes" and leaving them in random places in New York City. She then wrote about it on her blog and inadvertently inspired others who heard about it to do the same in their cities.
She later established a blog and Flickr group for the project. As a result, "hope notes" and the "hope revolution" were found and documented around the country including thousands of notes with Kinyarwandan phrases, created by members of the online community, mailed to Heide, and hand delivered by a friend to a small village of genocide survivors in Rwanda.
Bibliography
*Kirtsy Takes a Bow: A Celebration of Women's Online Favorites (2009) edited by Laura Mayes ISBN 1-93397-905-4
*Web Designer: Create a Stylish Blog (2009) ISBN 9-77174535300-3

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