Matt is Director, Design at BERG and has been delivering digital products and services since 1995. He was creative director for the launch version of the BAFTA award-winning BBC News Online. Between 2003-2005 he worked at Nokia on areas as diverse as RFID/NFC applications of tangible/physical interfaces and the human universal experience of play. From 2005-2007 he was director of user-experience design for Nokia’s Nseries range within Nokia Design. In early 2007 he co-founded and designed Dopplr.com, which grew into an influential and popular start-up travel service, before being sold to Nokia in the autumn of 2009.
He studied Architecture, qualifying in 1995 RIBA Part II and BArch from the Welsh School of Architecture. He has spoken at events such as Reboot, Ars Electronica, Webstock, O’Reilly’s Etech and FooCamp; and has written on interaction design, comic books and planetary-scale, self-replicating robot dogs for 10 years at http://www.magicalnihilism.com.
He is an advisor to the learning startup Schoolofeverything.com and is a visiting tutor on the Design Interactions course at the Royal College of Art.
Contact
- Email: mj@berglondon.com
- Phone: +44 (0)7540 564 598
- Personal homepage: Magical Nihilism
Talks by Matt Jones
- Immaterials, CAT London, November 2009
- All the Time in the World, Design By Fire 2009, October 2009
- The New Negroponte Switch, Frontiers of Interaction 2009, June 2009
- Data as Seductive Material, Umea Spring Summit, March 2009
- The Demon-Haunted World, Webstock, February 2009
Articles by Matt Jones
- Johnny Holland magazine: Personal informatics: polite, pertinent, pretty… and persuasive?, April 2009
- Edge Online: Are games design, January 2010
Blog posts by Matt Jones
- Everting A.R.: “Crossing Borders” by Choy Ka Fai
- Everting A.R. and changing the city with light: the work of ANTIVJ
- Matt Jones speaking at Conference TechnoArk 2010, January 29th, Sierre, Switzerland
- Humanising data: introducing “Chernoff Schools” for Ashdown
- Matt Jones speaking at CAT event, November 19th, London
- Jack Schulze at Ad-Age IDEA conference, November 12th, New York City
- “All the time in the world” talk at Design By Fire 2009, Utrecht
- BERG featured in UKTI/Monocle creative industries survey
- Ashdown: researcher wanted
- The Pillar Of Autumn
- Week 227
- Week 226
- Stories as macroscopes
- BERG in this month’s Icon magazine
- Matt Jones at Design by Fire conference, October 20th, Utrecht
- Hello, Ojito!
- Counterfactuals
- Stating the obvious: the book you can read with one hand.
- Maps as service design: The Incidental
- The New Negroponte Switch
- Genuine outbreaks of the future
- If products are people too, let them have a thousand true fans…
