Owen Jones
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| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Internet |
| Occupation | Content, Customer and User Experience Consultant |
| Location | Lismore, New South Wales, Australia |
| Introduction | Formerly the Web Content Editor at Southern Cross University, Australia 2011-14. I love to stay current with current and emerging technologies. I thrive on the challenge of solving complex problems and managing change. I have a wealth of experience and expertise in the multimedia and online spaces that are portable to mobile and other technologies. I enjoy working with people and believe I have empathy to help make their daily tasks easier and more successful. I approach everything I do strategically and am able to communicate complex concepts in clear, simple and concise language. I also surf and play in an 80's style rock band RetroVirus. |
| Interests | Professional - User Experience, Interface Design, Human Computer Interaction, Rich Content Development, Usability, Accessibility, Search Engine Marketing/Optimisation, Product Development Lifecycle, Reiterative Development. Recreational - music, guitar, drums, surfing, hiking, mountain biking, running, swimming, bicycle touring, environmental and humanitarian activism. |
| Favorite Movies | Curse of the Golden Flower, Hero, To Live, the Soloist... |
| Favorite Music | Cog, Queens of the Stone Age, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Foo Fighters, System of a Down, Hoodoo Gurus, Powderfinger, Grinspoon, Metallica, Trivium... |
| Favorite Books | Web Standards Solutions - Dan Cedarholm The Now Revolution - Jay Baer and Amber Naslund Defensive Design for the Web - Matthew Linderman and Jason Fried Information Architecture for the World Wide Web - Louis Rosenfeld and Peter Morville User Interface Design a Software Engineering Perspective - Soren Lauesen Don't Make me Think - Steve Krug The Design of Everyday Things - Don Norman Everyday UX - Luke Chambers, Matthew Magain Sketching User Experiences: The Workbook - Saul Greenberg, Sheelagh Carpendale, Nicolai Marquarde, Bill Buxton Customer Experience 3.0: High-Profit Strategies in the Age of Techno Service - John A. Goodman Outside In: The Power of Putting Customers at the Center of Your Business - Harley Manning, Kerry Bodine Customer Experience Is Your Business - Carine Clark, Adam Edmunds, Matt Inman, Bruce Parkinson, Jennifer Beyer, Jeremy Cox, Rich King, Dave Fish |