Brighton, United Kingdom
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Jonathan Rogers’s Summary
I'm a Web Designer with my primary focus being on user centred interface design.
Put People First
That is the singularly most important aspect to my approach and is the driving force that I look up to in the work of those around me that influence and inspire me. It seems so obvious. Start and end with the people who will be using your design.
Honesty & Respect
Create work that is honest in its execution. Working with commercial clients it's essential to establish trust with their audiences. There's far too many web sites out there that under estimate users and drive them away with patronising marketing devices. Respect your audience and understands its needs - that will take you to the heart of a good design. Be nice, don't lie and make friends.
Passion
I genuinely love to design web sites. I got a real buzz as a teen when I cobbled together a site and published it to the web. I still get the same buzz today. But above all I crave the creative process. It doesn't end, there's always a new challenge and countless opportunities for surprise in the process' ability to advance and alter your own conceptions of a project and yourself.
Creativity
It can mean so many things but whatever your definition you need to live by it. For me it's the desire to work with a blank canvas and create some thing new. It's the skill to bring your world view to your work and to be able to know what experiences and understandings can aid you in creating something special. Whether it's that art exhibition you viewed or the way the milk dribbled off your chin and back in to the cereal bowl - it can be anything. That's what's exciting. Ideas can come from anywhere. Sometimes they fall out of the sky, fully formed and ready to go. Other times they need to be worked at, bashed in to shape and polished up. Working in a creative field you need to know everything you can about the world around you and fold all that knowledge in to the work in front of you. That's fun.
Jonathan Rogers’s Specialties:
Web design, user centered design, usability and I can cook a mean curry.
