Gary Barber
Blogging at http://manwithnoblog.com
Man with no Blog :: Gary Barber rants on user experience, and the controlled chaos of the Web Industry
Bad Interfaces – eMusic Getting it Wrong
January 24, 2012
Bad Interfaces – eMusic Getting it Wrong
Times have just got to change. I’m a little sick of living in a world that is regionalise into sales and licencing zones for no real reason besides to restrict sales due to some arcane money grubbing corporate policy. What makes matters worse is people building experiences that highlight this and rub our face in [...]
Debunking the Myth on Agile T Shaped UX Designers
December 21, 2011
Debunking the Myth on Agile T Shaped UX Designers
I have been interested in agile process for a while, especial it’s use with UX techniques. The other day I ran into a myth that there aren’t many User Experience Design people with skills that can work on agile teams. It seems UX people aren’t very flexible. This I find almost laughable, in fact most UX [...]
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Australia forgets about Accessibility?
December 20, 2011
Australia forgets about Accessibility?
The following is an approximate transcript of the talk – “Outta time, scope, and we fixed that already – Is there a Disconnect” I gave at the 2011 OzeWAI conference in late November 2011. As usual the slide deck is on Slideshare. I also have a collection of sketch notes from OzeWAI 2011, as I [...]
Taking Stock of Volunteer Contributions
October 18, 2011
Taking Stock of Volunteer Contributions
The other day I added up the time I spend on volunteer work, you know, contributing back to the community and the like. I used to see this as just an hour here, and hour there, no big deal. I just consider it to be part of what I do. However when I added it [...]
The Rise of the UX Developer
October 16, 2011
The Rise of the UX Developer
As with any young industry we tend to endlessly debate the labels we should be placing on the User Experience based roles that we are conducting. Along with this debate on the labels, we seem to be now in a blame game on who really is responsible as an industry (which I had no idea [...]
Things are not Dead Here
October 08, 2011
Things are not Dead Here
You may have noticed that the output from this blog has slowed over the last ten or so months from at least a post a week to if you’re lucky one post a month. Sorry about that. I can’t really put my finger on why my blogging output has decreased. I still like writing, I [...]
Bad Interfaces – Technology Leading the Way
September 12, 2011
Bad Interfaces – Technology Leading the Way
I don’t mind completing surveys, I even do those phone surveys. Having working with several different marketing teams and conducted countless UX information gathering surveys over the years. I can understand the difficulties of getting a good response from people. So I don’t mind taking the time to complete the odd survey. Still I have [...]
The Core UX Reading List
August 02, 2011
The Core UX Reading List
I get asked this a lot. “What are the best UX books to read?” In true UX tradition my answer is depends. It depends on your experience as a UX practitioner, your experience with scientific research methods, psychology, interaction design, user interface design, product or visual design and your level of communication skills. Still having [...]
The Mobile Web is Not Going Away
July 10, 2011
The Mobile Web is Not Going Away
I was killing time, waiting, doing the Dad’s Taxi thing. While I waited, I was catching up on Twitter, on my phone, plus reading the various articles from my stream. You know what is becoming a real pain point. Non responsive designed web sites. The ones that don’t scale well on mobile devices, sadly they [...]
Why Use PDF over HTML
May 30, 2011
Why Use PDF over HTML
As a web professional and an avocate for inclusive design (web accessibility) I have often wondered why organisations are so obsessed with using PDF documents on web sites as opposed to HTML based documents. After all PDF documents don’t do accessibility as well as HTML pages do. Given the ease of use of most modern CMS you [...]
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