Steve Barnett is a human-centred front-end developer and user experience designer. He helps software teams have happier customers and make better software by becoming more human-centred.
He’s been building things for the web professionally since 2005 (and built things for fun for a while before that). In Cape Town in South Africa he worked as a front-end developer and UX person (as an employee and as a consultant) at dev shops, design studios, and more. In January 2020 he moved to Wellington in New Zealand and joined Totara Learning as a front-end developer, specialising in accessibility. In August 2021 he started at Xero as a Technical Digital Accessibility Analyst. In September 2023 he started at the Ministry of Social Development as a Digital Accessibility Specialist. In April 2024 he started at Intopia as a Digital Accessibility Consultant.
He enjoys sharing what he’s learned from all the mistakes he’s made: helping people learn new things, or get better at things they already known. He writes about it, speaks and facilitate workshops at meetups, conferences, and at clients. He does a few talks and workshops a year, often with a friend who he can learn something from.
Elsewhere
He’s on Medium as @maxbarners, on GitHub as SteveBarnett, on LinkedIn, and on this site as, erm, himself.
He loves open source so he keeps lots of things on GitHub like accessibility demos and tests, notes-to-self on the WebAim Million, retrospective templates, and checklists for UX and accessibility.
You can drop him a line at [email protected]. Sometimes he writes things about himself in the third person and it feels a bit odd.