Tim writes

Webstruxure was founded by Aaron Stewart and Ian Edwards. Our other employees are Richard Simes, Patrick Te Tau and myself, Tim Jones. This week, it’s time to introduce Patrick.

The first time I met Patrick was when he came to do one of the early usability tests for Rightcar, the car-comparison site Webstruxure developed in 2007 for Land Transport New Zealand. He stayed beyond the allocated hour, and made many valuable comments about the layout and graphic design of the site.

I was struck then by his enthusiasm and energy, and I’m still impressed by them now he’s working for Webstruxure! (A note to prospective usability testing subjects: we can’t afford to hire everyone who does testing for us, much as we’d like to.)

Patrick writes:

From the Wairarapa, I was raised in Carterton by my artist mum, Victoria Te Tau. As a kidalump (zoological term) I pulled all my toys apart and asked an incessant number of “whys” to a patient family (mainly mine). University turned out to be much the same, a toy world of quick sorts and Descartes.

I met the Webstruxure posse through my friend and now co-worker Richard while working for the visualisation company Chaos Dimention (a Java 3D role) only just upstairs from Webstruxure at Creative HQ. Sharing similar philosophies (Belgian beer) worked out well; they liked the “cut of my jib”.

As a Web wrangler I touch all parts of web development from the initial requirements with our customers through to the implementation. Processes, algorithms and, increasingly, usability have become the tastiest of flavours; my wrangler role typically sates this.

Brazilian jiu jitsu at Grappling Specialists Wellington is pretty much the sweetest pastime ever. It’s physically challenging and suitably cogent. Photography is my other vice, and I hope to be New Zealand’s first concert stilt photographer (to self – get stilts). I also read books slowly, currently page-per-daying The Naked Ape by Desmond Morris and Zadie Smith’s On Beauty.