Mat Jordan - Designer and Developer

About

I’m a designer and developer at Northwestern University living in Asheville, North Carolina. When not ruminating in the office, I’m likely avoiding technology; hands in the dirt; feet on a trail; reading a book; baking bread; or trying, always, to be a better partner and parent.

Posts

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WebMCP in Cultural Heritage: Including Agent Users in UX
September 22, 20269 min read
How the new WebMCP specification connects cultural heritage to researchers in AI workspaces, impacts user experience, and expands access to our material.

Work

At Northwestern University Libraries, I work with an outstanding team creating projects that support digital humanities, collections, and scholarship. Before joining Northwestern, I honed my identity as a designer and developer in academia, working at the University of Tennessee Libraries and, prior to that, on projects for Duke, NC State, Wake Forest, Butler, SUNY Albany, and others.

Reach out if you'd like to collaborate on digital humanities, collections, or scholarship projects.

Canopy IIIF

nulib-ds.github.io/canopy Code

An open-source static site generator for building discovery-focused websites around IIIF collections and digital scholarship.

Clover IIIF

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

An open-source React component library for building accessible web interfaces fluent in IIIF. Includes an A/V-capable viewer and other components built for the IIIF Presentation API.

Northwestern Digital Collections

dc.library.northwestern.edu Code

A discovery platform for thousands of cultural heritage materials from Northwestern University Libraries. Built with Next.js and served through IIIF.

Colophon

This site is a static Next.js export with content written in Markdown. Components and styling from Radix Themes. Post thumbnails are generated from a source image as a grid of circles.

Mat Jordan — Designer and Developer