Jonathan Walter is a User Experience (UX) designer, leader, entrepreneur, and published author of nonfiction and fiction,

Jon’s debut novel, THE TOWPATH, about a group of teens who are targeted by a time-traveling killer and her band of Iroquois warriors from the past, was published by Collective Ink Books in November, 2024.

By day, Jon is a senior User Experience (UX) design professional and leader with more than 20 years of experience in his field. His career has included roles at U.S.-based Fortune 500 companies in insurance and industrial automation. Additionally, Jon has earned 18 patents on industrial software applications and worked for small startups in the commercial security and real estate technology industries.

Jon often spends his “downtime” writing on User Experience and related topics. His thought leadership has been on display in UXmatters, UX Collective, and The Startup digital magazines. Jon has been a contributing columnist for UXmatters since 2017. As a fiction writer, Jon’s short fiction has been featured in GHOSTLIGHT, THE MAGAZINE OF TERROR (SPRING 2019), DARK DOSSIER #32: THE MAGAZINE OF GHOSTS, MONSTERS, AND KILLERS, and THE DEVIL’S DOORBELL: AN ANTHOLOGY OF DARKEST ROMANCE.

Jon resides in the Cleveland, Ohio area in the U.S. with his wife and two sons. He gets by just fine with the help of hoppy beer and strong coffee and enjoys hiking and biking on the Ohio & Erie Canal Towpath Trail in the Cuyahoga Valley National Park where much of The Towpath is set.