Biography:

Gary Barber is the principal user experience designer at radharc with a focus on UX design, usability and information architecture. He is a realistic standardista who is constantly mentoring and exercising his passion for creativity, usability, accessibility and minimal user experiences – be this from speaking engagements, consultations or over a few quiet ales.

Gary’s formal educational background is in making weird substances and blowing things up, and this, as expected, has no relevancy for having been working within the web industry in various roles since the dark ages of the mid nineteen nineties. He has spent a fair amount of time consulting for the government, education, energy and private sectors while designed large intranets, social media sites, CMS and realigned sites back to their core business using the web industry’s best practices.

Gary also contributes to the community by volunteering to various professional bodies. He has worked with the Australian Web Industry Association and is a founding member of the fledgling Perth chapter of the Usability Professionals Association. He has also written for Sitepoint.com; and looks at user experience and other web issues from time to time on Man With No Blog.