Mat Jordan - Designer and Developer

Creating digital experiences that are simple and human.

I am designer and developer from Asheville, North Carolina, United States, and work for Northwestern University where I contribute to open-source software that enhance digital collections and scholarship. When not ruminating in the office, I am likely to be found avoiding technology, tending my garden, backpacking the Blue Ridge Mountains, cooking, reading, and learning to become the best partner and parent that I can be.

Work

As part of an outstanding team at Northwestern University Libraries, I have had the privilege to contribute towards various open-source and institutional projects. Before Northwestern, I delivered solutions on projects at the University of Tennessee Libraries as well as Duke, NC State, Wake Forest, Butler, SUNY Albany, and more.

I am open to collaboration on projects that are focused within the realms of digital collections, humanities, and scholarship. If you are interested in working together, please do not hesitate to contact me.

Canopy IIIF

canopy-iiif.github.io/docs Code

An open-source static site generator designed for fast creation, contextualization, and customization of a discovery-focused digital scholarship and collections website using IIIF APIs.

Clover IIIF

samvera-labs.github.io/clover-iiif Code

An open-source UI component library designed for quickly developing high-quality and accessible web interfaces that are fluent in IIIF. It features an A/V capable IIIF Viewer and other components tailored to the IIIF Presentation API.

Northwestern Digital Collections

dc.library.northwestern.edu Code

A website providing thousands of cultural heritage materials from Northwestern University Libraries' distinctive collections. Powered by Next.js and IIIF resources delivered from the Northwestern Digital Collections API.

Colophon

This site is built with Next.js using a static implementation in conjunction content delivered via Markdown. Baseline components and styling and are organized using Radix Themes. Representative thumbnail resources above are delivered from Northwestern Digital Collections.

The header image is a view looking east from Flower Gap (elevation 5790 feet or 1765 meters) in the Shining Rock Wilderness area of Pisgah National Forest, North Carolina. The photograph was captured by me on the morning of April 1, 2024 during a backpacking trip with my daughter and our family dog.