Jon Bates Design

Web Site Creative Director + User Interface Developer + Rich Media (RIA) Online Content Designer + Mobile App Developer + Widget Designer + User Experience Specialist + Online Content Consulting

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Jonathan Bates is an experienced creative director specializing in design of web content, rich media, UI for web and applications, mobile applications (Android/iPhone/Java Smartphones), widget development, deployment and more.

His mission: make excellent, business-aligned creative that gets results in ways everyone can appreciate: high return-on-investment; quantifiable results; real-time user metrics/analytics; all culminating in a design process that is result-driven, reflecting visual best-practices while mindful of user habits, their expectations, and ultimately the visitors' wants and needs.


Jonathan brings more than 10 years experience from San Francisco and Silicon Valley in senior creative leadership roles for major web brands, including CNET Networks as Design Director for all web products and @Home Network,
where he ran multimedia development at the nation's first and largest cable broadband provider.


Core skills & abilities

  Strategic brand design + development

  Dynamic site architecture (UI/User Experience)

  Executive presentation development + design,
    including speaker training + event direction


  Proven senior online project + team leadership
    excellence, supervising up to 50 reports onsite
    and managing remote teams worldwide


  Corporate consultant for creative asset review,
    skills and utilization assessments, full-scale
    planning and execution of creative/development
    reorganizations, realignments, skill enhancement
    initiatives and merger/acquisition 'blending' of
    staff, leadership and operations

  Design style guide + ID system + Brand Book
    research, planning and assembly; expert in
    online style/brand workspaces and ensuring
    full compliance within short timeframe



Mark Farina Web Site & Album Design
Creative Director & Concept design

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Technical abilities



  Mastery of Adobe CS4/CS5: Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Illustrator, InDesign, FlexBuilder Acrobat Pro;

 

  Cloud development using multiple interoperable tools; advanced InfoPath, Google Apps APIs; Sharepoint integration;

 

  Multi-platform and four-screen product development, including global localization

  Product design and development via Microsoft Expression 3 & Visual Studio 2008 (XAML, VB & JavaScript)

  Rich media product development using Silverlight, AJAX and Adobe AIR + Flex platforms for deployment on web and mobile platforms

  Extensive experience in advanced design, production and authoring of CMS-based sites; rich media with interactive & real-time data inter-operability; customized web applications, including widgets

 

  Mobile app development in Android and iOS environments

 

  Development of dynamic ad units and off-site brand extensions, including microsites and one-off promotional efforts

  Advanced development and coding in HTML, XML & ASPX (.NET) environments for CMS-enabled sites and flat-file static sites

  Exceptional PowerPoint presentation design and authoring, as well as speaker training and event management experience

  Proven written abilities, with extensive experience creating copy for technical, advertising and corporate communications

  Products that look sharp, excite the user, prove their effectiveness via robust analytics, and extend the brand while enhancing market positioning

Great creative that harnesses the power of your back-end technology


To make designs and ideas into reality, one must understand and adapt to the challenges of development and ongoing production of a site, application or platform. Jonathan has extensive experience not only designing the visual aspect of online content, but the back-end development work as well.



Microsoft Advertorial Special (on CNET)
Design Director / Concept designer
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More resources: Jonathan Bates


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  Download design portfolio


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Reference Links

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Apple Computer channel CBT
Platform architecture / Art Director
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Let's talk.



If you would like to talk
about your current creative needs, please feel free to email or submit info via online form. Thank you for your interest and time, and look forward to assisting you in your next endeavor.





Jonathan Bates                        
(612) 217-1115