Carl Barrow
@carlbarrow
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Dad, widower, Academic user experience professional who changed career and now works in the Ambulance Service. Likes trail biking, hiking and paddle boarding
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Joined February 2009
VTS - so we make assumptions based on what we see in front of us? - We start to build our own story which may be very different from the person next to us #uxlibs.
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Really interested and pleased that empathy and curiosity have been brought up in the context of healthcare in both talks this morning! #uxlibs.
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Final prep for #uxlibs before two day shifts and a night shift. See everyone for drinks in Cambridge on Tuesday night! Very much looking forward to it 😀
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Preparing for #UXLibs and as usual I want to say and do too much! @andypriestner You did say two hours right!? 🤣.
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In December 2022 I wrote a post titled ‘Day Sleeper’. It was about my first experiences of working night shifts. Now 18 months on things feel a little different, so it’s time for part two.
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In December 2022 I wrote a post titled ‘Day Sleeper’. It was about my first experiences of working night shifts in non emergency ambulances. Now, 18 months later feels like a good time for an updat…
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I didn’t share my latest blog post on Twitter/X yet, so here it is. Just a little bit about how music can affect us and how we all take a meaning from it. #M83 #outro
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I’ve never written about how music affects me, although I have mentioned that’s there are tracks that I don’t like to listen to so much these days. A little while ago I was introduced to M83 by Jar…
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I absolutely love this, Jared sent it on tonight. It’s not long since we watched the movie, but the mixed intro to the track is so true and really hit home!
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A bit late retweeting this! So excited to be getting back to #uxlibs and so excited to be running a workshop! Equally as excited to catch up with those I haven’t seen for five years!.
(1 of 2) Excited to announce our UX in Libraries 8 workshops & facilitators: @BlakistonR, Bob Liu, (‘Bringing teams together with a design studio’); Anita Benko (‘Using games to enhance the UX process’); @carlbarrow (‘Lessons from a librarian turned paramedic’) #uxlibs #libraries
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With @altontowers and @THORPEPARK ready to open, I thought it timely to re-share my ‘importance of rollercoasters’ post. The boys and I can’t wait to ride Nemesis Reborn and Hyperia! But we’ll be sad to ride with an empty seat where Beth would have been.
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I haven’t blogged for a while, I think mostly because I have used the blog primarily for work purposes and the work I’ve been involved in lately hasn’t been something that could be blogged about, …
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For those who like to follow my blog, here’s my latest post - Navigating Mother’s Day
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Let’s venture into Mothers Day and all that comes with it. It’s a cruel day really because a lot of people no longer have a mother or they don’t see their mother, or for some other reason the day i…
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Yet another blog post, this time about what it feels like to look back on memories, something I do a lot of. Read if you feel like it, scroll on if you don’t, there’s a lot of other stuff to read and writing this just keeps me on track 😊
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I want to talk about memories. They sometimes seem both a blessing and a curse. They both sooth and hurt. They make you smile and they make you cry. I have a lot of memories, memories from when Bet…
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Just a short post about this winter and how I’ve felt about it so far
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I don’t like winter and I never have. I always struggle through it in some way or another. Since I lost Beth the winters have seemed darker and more lonely than they ever were, this winter particul…
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RT @andypriestner: We have just opened bookings for the 2024 User Experience in Libraries conference in Cambridge. You can book your place….
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2023 was a year of trying to get from A to B. I don’t want to do it again but I’m glad we got there.
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It’s interesting how thing change, how family dynamics change, but it’s also interesting how some things stay the same, how people and mindsets stay the same. Things for us changed dramatically thr…
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Great theme! To be able to authentically empathise with users of any services is really important. Even now in my new line of work to be able to quickly understand how people feel and what they are going through is so important, but not alway easy #uxlibs.
The #uxlibs Call for Papers is now live and the 2024 conference theme is ‘Curiosity & Empathy’. Find out how to submit a paper at:
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Back to where it all started 😀.
We are excited to announce that the next User Experience in Libraries #uxlibs will take place in Cambridge (UK) on 11-13 June 2024. Our Call for Papers will go live next Monday. More information at:
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