---
title: 'An Addition to the Team: Introducing Jason'
teaser:
tags: news
author: Chad Pytel
published_on: 2007-06-20
---

We're happy to announce that a few weeks ago, we had [Jason
Martinez](http://thoughtbot.com/about/people#jmartinez) join the thoughtbot
team as Lead Designer.

At thoughtbot, we've always been very opinionated, and our standards have been
very high for user interface design, as well as the quality of our <abbr
title="Cascading Style Sheets">CSS</abbr> and <abbr title="HyperText Markup
Language">HTML</abbr> markup. Matt, myself, and the rest of the team, along with
our partners have been able to deliver excellent results.  However, as we
continue to grow and focus on the precise set of services that we will deliver,
it became clear that we would need to bring a new member of the team on whose
entire role here would be to lead the UI portion of our projects, and be able to
focus on maintaining the quality and standards that we insist upon.  I'm happy
to say that we've found that person in Jason.

For the readers of this blog, Jason will likely be filling out the design
portion of our tagline that appears above.  For our current customers, you've
likely already interacted with Jason, or soon will.  And for our future
customers, having Jason join the team is going to make the thoughtbot offering
more complete, I hope you get the chance to find out.

As an aside, we're currently starting the search for [additional Ruby on Rails
developers in Boston and New York City](https://thoughtbot.com/jobs).  If
you're interested, please let us know.