TIM JONES / about
About me
I make the abstract clear before a team commits to the build.
I studied English, Photography and Fine Art at Rhodes.
English helps me explain abstract concepts and outcomes. Photography helps me see structure, rhythm and cropping. Fine Art taught me to keep looking until the shape of the problem became clear.
ABOUT / CAREER SHAPE
Experience
From pre-dot-bomb to product systems.
My career kicked off in the fin de siècle weeks before the Dot-com bubble burst. After the late-1990s internet goldrush, I moved into agency work, freelance teams, content strategy, UX, UI, product design, enterprise systems, remote delivery and teaching.
ABOUT / THROUGH-LINE
The through-line
Look at the mess. Find the shape.
Explain it clearly. Help a team build something better.
ABOUT / REMOTE WORK
Remote, properly.
I’ve worked with teams across South Africa, Australia, the UK, the USA, Europe, Tanzania, Kenya, Dubai, and India.
The tools change. The useful habit does not: make the work visible, keep decisions findable and give people one clear thing to react to.
ABOUT / TEACHING
Teaching
Lectures and online courses, 2005–present
Teaching forces a useful discipline: explain the idea plainly, make the example concrete and remove the fog machine.
I lectured in Copywriting for the Web at AAA School of Advertising in Johannesburg from 2005 to 2006.
More recently, I have taught and written syllabi for online courses in UX Design and Testing and Digital Product Management, with participants from organisations including Apple and the University of Washington.
Digital Product Management course
Copywriting for the Web course
ABOUT / Testimonials
References
“Tim is exactly the kind of person you want on your team. He is highly experienced, a pleasure to work with, quick to embed himself, and consistently makes things easier for those around him through his clarity, structure, and collaborative approach.
Tim is an exceptionally capable and thoughtful professional who brings real clarity to complex challenges. By identifying critical product blind spots and creating practical artefacts, he equipped the team with reusable frameworks for improving both current and future products. His ability to communicate clearly and with purpose had a direct impact on key decisions.”
Celestine “Zie” Ngulube, Head of Design, Absa CIB
“Tim is the most encouraging and inspiring team leader I have worked for. He is objective and decisive, yet fair and kind. While he is creating the best solution possible for his client, he is also working on refining and growing the skills of his team.
Tim was my UX Lead at MTN Business, and I felt confident and reassured about every decision he made. If you need someone to pull an existing team together, (or build a new one) and manage stakeholders with clarity and assurance, so that you can produce excellent digital products, while progressing each team member’s career at the same time… I highly recommend Tim.”
Melody Vermaerke, Service and Product Design Lead
Contact
Available for Lead, Staff and senior product design roles, and selected consulting work.
078 757 0447
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