Hi, my name is Barnabas, a Hungarian UX designer living in Luton, UK.

About me

2008-12-23 13:04:21 | Comments »

My name is Barnabas Nagy a User Experience Designer living in Luton with my wife.

My origin

As you can see from my name I’m not British, I came to the UK from a small European country called Hungary. My name has two pronunciations. One English and one Hungarian. The English pronunciation goes as follows: Bar-nah-bus Nah-ghee – you can see this in my logo as well. I like the ‘ghee’ bit the most. If we ever meet I can show you the Hungarian pronounciation.

My expertise

My expertise lies in understanding the needs of website users and translating them to viable and profitable business solutions.

I am the founder of two User Experience related websites Principles of UX and UX pledge. I am also working on a new project management system, which I am planning to launch in mid 2012.

I have come up with a couple of innovative ideas for Wireframes/Prototypes, User Flows/User Journeys, Sitemaps and Personas.

I am a firm believer of agile development. I am avid user of Axure, Adobe inDesign CS5, Adobe Photoshop CS5 and WordPress.

I have been involved in the making of high profile eCommerce, membership and mobile websites. Clients ranged from banking to PR, through law, health care, marketing, sports, training, motor trade to property.

My 6 years of professional experience in web design, web development, branding, marketing and business makes me a cross-discipline professional and gives me a good insight into what do website users look for.

I am currently learning from Seth Godin, Susan Weinschenk, UXMag.com, Boxes and Arrows.

My background experience

I’ve been designing and developing websites for small businesses for approximately 6 years and I’ve learnt a lot from this experience. It started with one of my German friend who invited me to Germany and he wanted to teach me C++ and database programming. I was lost in the code and I felt that this type of work is too dry for me since databases in general are not visually appealing.

He then suggested to give HTML a try. So I started learning HTML and I was fascinated. I’ve learnt that since I’m a creative type I constantly need to be visually entertained. I could instantly see the results of my work. How great that is! Shortly thereafter I learnt CSS, and later on I learnt a little JavaqScript, MySQL and PHP. Finally, I stumbled upon WordPress and my life changed. I was able to create websites instantly and I was able to edit them without being a MySQL pro. Did I tell you that I dig WordPress?

Why UX

Throughout the years I realised that my main strengths are the following: seeing the big picture, simplifying things, organising and solving problems by ideas. This is why I started to show interest in the field of User Experience Design. I feel that I have at last found a field that harnesses most of my talents and skills (however not all).