John Hunter . info

about me

I travel
- most recently in Mexico, US, India, New Zealand and South America. You can follow my travels at catenjohn.org.uk and @catenjohn.

I do web stuff
- creating sites with web-standards and developing applications that run in web browsers or mobile devices. I've been developing these sort of things since about 1995 and I still get a kick out of building stuff with JavaScript, css and plain old semantic html.

I completed an MSc in 2004 and spent a few years doing user testing and user experience consulting. I'm interested in working with multidisciplinary teams although mostly I'm involved with either interface development or usability.

Back in 80s I designed the D90 - a coat that turned into a bag. It made it to the window of Paul Smith.

some of my photos at flickr.com

my work

I'm now a Senior Front End Developer at Wunderman in London.

Before that I was Head of Interface Development at Syzygy - a London, UK web agency where I lead and mentored a team of 7 front-end developers.

I have worked for over 14 years in permanent and contract roles with some of the leading UK web agencies and user experience consultancies.

recently

• Europe-wide mobile photography competition

  Facebook and Instagram APIs in a JQuery template + json driven competition platform. More than 15k entries over 6 weeks.

• iPad campaign site for global IT consultany

  Creating rich mobile web experiences on the iPad with html5 video, css3, css animations and svg image masks.

• Yui Compressor web-app

  A web based tool for compressing and concatenating JavaScript or CSS files. This app uses the HTML5 file api & drag n drop to create an effective UI to the Yui Compressor.

• Freelance front-end development from around the globe

  Various remote-work projects from HTML5 templates, CSS, JavaScript widgets, ajax, jQuery plugins, to full build on MySQL/PHP.

• oo - simple helper for JavaScript inheritance

  A tiny JavaScript library that provides some sugar for developing in an Object-Oriented paradigm.

• The jQuery-include plugin

  A client-side file include for rapid prototyping with JavaScript.

right now…

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random books on my shelf