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Bridging Design & Code / Creating Digital Experiences

About Me

Hey, I'm Jon. I'm a product designer and developer who builds digital experiences by day and side projects by night. When I'm not shipping code at work, I'm growing my own newsletters and building audiences around things I actually care about.

Jon C. Phillips

I'm all about building products that solve real problems. I spend my days crafting elegant interfaces, shipping code that matters, and writing about turning ideas into businesses that actually work.

Over two decades, I've launched numerous web products, scaled startups, architected complex systems, and led engineering teams. I've seen products go from napkin sketches to acquisition, and I've loved every single minute of this creative journey.

If that sounds like your kind of thing, make sure you join my weekly newsletter. This is where I share practical insights from the trenches of product building. Real stories, hard-won lessons, and occasionally controversial takes on what it takes to build products that matter.

Most of all, thank you for reading this far and wanting to know more about me. I truly appreciate it. If you want to say hi, drop me a line here or on social media.

Some Additional Nerdery

Besides my passion for product building, I'm a sucker for good, clean, minimalist design. I love typography, particularly the unadorned and legible DIN family of typefaces with their industrial clarity and precision. All the headlines on this site are set in FF DIN Paneuropean, served through Adobe Fonts.

This site is built on the fantastic Craft CMS, uses the Tailwind utility-first CSS framework as well as AlpineJS, is hosted on Vultr. I use Kit for all my email newsletters.

Let's Get Personal

I was born and raised on the south shore of Montreal, Canada. These days I split time between Canada, Belize, and Mexico. I'm married to the love of my life, chase warm weather, appreciate a good flauta, love dachshunds, and collect automatic and mechanical watches. Guitarist with 30+ years of experience, traveler, avid photographer.