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
You can find him on GitHub as SteveBarnett, LinkedIn, and, erm, here.
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 .