Matt Jones is Director of 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. From 2003 to 2005 he worked at Nokia on areas as diverse as RFID/NFC applications of tangible and physical interfaces, and the human universal experience of play. From 2005 to 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 autumn 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 ten years at http://www.magicalnihilism.com.
Matt Jones is a visiting tutor on the Design Interactions programme at the Royal College of Art. He is also an adviser to the learning start-up Schoolofeverything.com, One-Click Orgs and Amnesty International.