Jonathan Baker-Bates

Designing things that other people build

I work for Expedia Inc. on the Hotels.com experience design team in London, England. I was a member of the Experience Design Department at LBi UK (formerly Oyster Partners and then Framfab UK) for over three years prior to that. At LBi I toiled for Sony, the National Health Service, BT Consumer Markets, BT Wholesale Markets, Abbey, Vodafone and others. I’ve also worked for Diageo, Yell and others when I was at other “new media” agencies. Previous employers have also included the BBC and IPC Media.

With a broad involvement in web technologies and online systems development since 1993, I design and maintain online user experiences, working with businesses and their customers to create things that make a difference to both. My professional interests have passed through systems administration to project management, interaction design to design research, and have touched on many other fields in between.

I am married to Kumi, have a son called Axel, and have a degree in Japanese Language from the University of Sheffield. I am a founder of the UK’s first server co-location co-operative and like playing with Linux, firing off shots in the copyfight, and writing about things that only I find interesting.

I’d like to pretend there’s more to me than that, but I’m tired and I want to go to bed.