Hello, I’m Jon Roobottom, a human man with a penchant for building websites. Born and bred in Brownhills, in the industrial midlands, I now live on the south coast (near Brighton) with my wife and two children.
I’m one of those annoying MAMILs you see around town, messing about on bikes, trying to recapture their youth. I like to run, cycle and make grunting noises in the gym.
Work
For the past five years, I’ve worked on public digital services with clients like HMRC, The Home Office, DLUHC, GCHQ, and GDS, first through my agency Roodesign, and more recently as a Principal UX Designer at Made Tech.
Previously, I’ve worked for various web design agencies and digital product companies.
For more information, look at my CV or peruse my portfolio.
Writing
I’ve been writing things on this website since 2005. I write long-form articles and post short diary entries that are only available to friends and family.
Article status
My articles are living documents that can grow and change over time. To track their state, I use the following status codes:
Early
Early articles are my initial thoughts. There may be key parts missing. There is a high risk of change.
Coherent
Coherent articles are mostly complete, although I think I might have more to add or update. There is a medium risk of change.
Explored
Explored articles are unlikely to be updated. There is a low risk of change.
Colophon
This website was designed in Sketch and is built with Eleventy. It’s hosted on Railway using a hastily built Express-js server that does clever server-side stuff with some routes, like /diary
and a custom 404
page.