Jason Mervyn Hibbs

Curriculum Vitae

Vital Information

Work

  • Design Lead

    Citymapper

    Full-stack product design and oft-PM across a diverse portfolio, from innovating on the most-loved consumer app to spinning up SDKs.

    Supporting strategy, shaping, speccing, and shipping, while balancing maintenance and modernisation of legacy systems, and helping senior designers do the same.

  • UX Designer & Developer

    Ticketer

    Design, prototype, and production of new and existing web applications for configuring ticket machines and managing bus services, fleets, and crew.

    Using customer insight and business goals to inform UX improvements, new opportunities, leading development of design systems across the product suite.

    Also designing and supporting development of a passenger app bringing the tickets and timetables of 500+ transit operators to a single place.

    Sole designer working with product, mobile, and API teams overseeing UX and UI across data, mobile, retail, and CMS, using field research to validate and iterate development.

  • Design Lead / Web Developer

    CrowdCat

    Design, development, and creative services in a lean team producing corporate and promotional websites, apps, video games, and eventually market research.

    Working with clients from brief to delivery, leading UX, UI, and CMS solutions, providing front-end development or consultation.

    I led the design effort of our core product for managing and publishing campaign sites, developing systems for the UI and its output.

    Hats worn: concept artist, product designer, brand guardian, arcade cabinet designer, information architect, website-builder builder, audio engineer, Bieber animator, artworker, illustrator, pinball wizard, and everything in between.

    Notable Clients

  • Designer / Illustrator / Developer

    Freelance

    Occasional work with agencies and small businesses producing websites, tools, graphics, branding, and exhibitions.

  • Store Supervisor

    Holland & Barrett

    Senior Product Advisor status through provided training. Primary focus in store at all times was customer service, fulfilling individual nutritional requirements, while meeting demanding sales targets.

Education

  • BA Hons Illustration

    Anglia Ruskin University

    First Class

  • BTEC ND Graphic Design

    City of Bristol College

    Distinction / Distinction / Merit

Skills

  • Design

    Experience in all kinds of media, at all stages of production. I sit between product owners, customers, and developers, advocating for the people who use our products, demanding evidence, and striving for quality.

    Specifically interested in inclusive, accessible, and usable software. Most comfortable working from research, ideating, prototyping, and delivering.

    Figma • Illustrator • Photoshop • InDesign
    Pencil • Paper • Fresco
    Chrome • Safari

  • Development

    Passionate about standards and semantics, present and future. Well-read and still reading. Fast and fluent in front-end, prototyping in the browser. I commit.

    Inventing new, useful, responsive interactions and visualisations excites me, forms and interfaces that empower people drives me. Currently interested in the JAMstack and PWAs.

    HTML • CSS • JS • Node • PHP
    PUG • SCSS • TS • Nuxt • Wordpress
    W3C • WCAG • WAI-ARIA
    GitHub • Jira • Azure DevOps

  • Workplace

    I’m used to working from home >66% of the time and familiar with the good comms. practice that requires. Since COVID-19 I’m interested in working with experienced distributed teams.

    Prone to gathering and documenting organisational knowledge and facilitating decisions.

    Slack • Zoom
    Notion • FigJam

  • Audio

    Former stage musician, writer of rock music, lover of older video game soundtracks and hair metal. Produced audio and sound effects for games.

    Audition • Garageband
    Vocals • Various instruments

  • Motion

    Developing narratives and frame-by-frame animation for pitching, illustration, short film, and video games.

    Animate • After Effects • iStopMotion • Spine
    Rive • Lottie • Bodymovin

  • Social

    Supporter of a just society, rights and ethics drive my work. Fascinated by the insights, passions, and perspectives of others.

    Quite introverted, compassionate listener, and decent writer. Straddling the technical and non-technical makes me a good translator.

  • Technical

    Digital native; making computers do what I want since the 90s. Learning new software is no problem. I will set the clock on any device. Siri controls my lights. Provider of tech support to colleagues, friends, and family.

    macOS • iOS • iPadOS • watchOS • tvOS

  • Hobbies

    I do life drawing to keep my drafting sharp, and climb to keep my body nimble. I like my jazz live, my wine red, and my beer opaque.

Exhibitions

Publication

Commendations

Research

  • Interests

    User Interface and experience design, make computers work harder than the people who use them. The future of universal design for the web platform and associated technologies.

    Experience

  • As Graphical User Interfaces mature, and new generations are born, will our icons remain relevant to everybody?

  • Digital Picture-Books for SEN Children using ePub 3

  • Can We Accept Video Games as Art?

Volunteering

  • Fitz Volunteers

    Fitzwilliam Museum

    Working with families to encourage drawing and creativity. Most notably at the Big Draw 2010, for which I led a mural of monsters contributed to by attending children.

Conferences

  • UX Cambridge 2018

    Visitor

  • UX Cambridge 2016

    Visitor

  • Engage – 13th Annual Learning and Teaching Conference

    Secondary Speaker

    Presentation and demonstration of fixed-layout ePub and related technologies.

  • Literacy and Language Coordinators for Suffolk Special Schools

    Assistant to Speaker

    Noting responses and feedback from attendees to speaker and answering technical questions.

  • Future of Web Design – London

    Self Funded Visitor – 3 day event

    Learning new ideas, trends, technologies, and practices in web design.

References

  • Available upon request.