Photo: Benson Low
I am Gary Barber my days are filled with being an user experience designer and running my own business radharc which specialises in creating pleasant accessible web based user experiences through design and the implementation of user centred information and UX architectures.
Okay this means I design websites that are going to be basically usable and work for their intended audience. Which is great as this lines up with the fact I have this passion to make all the web usable by everyone.
What I Can Do
I have been working within the web industry in various capacities since the mid nineteen nineties. I have extensive experience in general web design (CSS / HTML) as well as practice experience in interactive design, user experience design, information architecture development and user interface design.
Having travelled through various roles within the web industry from design and development in the government, energy and private sectors - I have designed large intranets, social media sites, CMS and realigned sites back to their core business via the use of the web industries best practices.
All the while I have been doing this I have from time to time been mentoring teams and exercising my passion for creativity, usability and accessibility.
Contributing to the Community
I consider contributing to the community as an important aspect of ones career. Therefore I am constantly volunteering my time to various professional bodies. I have worked with the Australian Web Industry Association in the past, been involved in the BarCamp movement and various user experience and usability groups.
I also do a fair amount of public speaking on web and freelancing related topics on a regular basis, the previous presentations and their notes from a selection of these talks are available online.
I’m also a founding member of the fledgling Perth chapter of the Usability Professionals Association and I have written for sitepoint.com
About This Blog
This award winning blog focuses on things web related, mostly on the UX design process and front end development. Such topics as usability, information architecture, web standards, accessibility, web design, social networking and the web industry in general pop up from time to time.
Contacting Me
I can be contact via my business radharc, emailing gary@manwithnoblog.com or via my usual suspects of social networking sites:
- Twitter: Tuna
- Facebook: Gary Barber
- LinkedIn: Gary Barber
- Flickr: CannedTuna
