About

Everything you never wanted to know about me.

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.

Hanging out with my family at the Upside Down House in Brighton.

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:

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.