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Matt Jones

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Matt is a Principal 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; is a visiting tutor on the Design Interactions course at the Royal College of Art and has written on interaction design, comic books and planetary-scale, self-replicating robot dogs for 10 years at www.magicalnihilism.com.

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
  • Icon magazine: The near-future of digital magazines, icon #087 / September 2010

Contact

Email: mj@berglondon.com

Phone: +44 (0)7540 564 598

Personal homepage: Magical Nihilism

Recent blog posts by
Matt Jones

  • Lamps: a design research collaboration with Google Creative Labs, 2011

    December 19, 2012

  • Mark Cridge joins BERG as Director Of Consulting

    October 5, 2012

  • Week 375

    August 17, 2012

  • Guardian Headliner: The newspaper that looks back at you…

    August 1, 2012

  • BBC Dimensions: integrating with BBC News

    July 24, 2012

  • How Big Really, 1940′s style

    July 17, 2012

  • Sunday Links

    May 20, 2012

  • Week 362

    May 17, 2012

  • Breaking Out & Breaking In at Studio-X, NYC, Monday 30th April

    April 26, 2012

  • Matt Jones in New York, April 30th-May 1st

    April 23, 2012

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