Hello
I’m Alex Barker, an experienced practitioner of User-Centred Design, combining a range of skills including User Experience, Information Architecture and Interaction Design
My portfolio of work, past and present, is listed on the right and I’m also keeping a blog containing thoughts, musings, ideas and events as they unfold.
Outside of work I’m an all-seasons surfer, wild camper, vertigo-suffering mountain walker, occasional and poor musician, amateur meteorologist, photograph taker, geography geek, rustic cook with an exploring mind.
Thanks for taking a look around.
Latest Blog post…
There’s no Usability Best Practice, just Good Practice
There are no one set of usability or UX best practice guidelines that fit all websites. Every website or online community that I’ve ever worked on has its own unique set of usability challenges that seek to addressed. Conventions Best practice implies there are a finite set of guidelines that can be imposed on any [...]