Work
Everything here is self-initiated: designed, built and run in my own time. Each one exists because I noticed a problem most people and products quietly miss.
The UK’s largest volunteer-edited encyclopaedia of LGBTQ+ history, archived by the British Library.
An open-source platform giving any walkable place its own location-aware app. EU-hosted and free to self-host.
A location-aware photography tool that surfaces historic images at the exact spot where they were taken.
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A design investigation into what a dating app would look like if it were built around meeting, not matching.
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Original research into where WCAG colour contrast requirements fail, with a stress-testing tool and a paper.
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A free tool for anyone who looks after websites for other people. It maps what a site depends on, shows what would break if you were unavailable, and writes a handover document the client keeps.
An iPhone app for learning to type braille on a phone’s screen: six fingers, one chord for each letter. Every chord sounds like its shape and can be felt in the fingers, and the keys learn where your fingers fall. In testing now, coming to the App Store.
A website for the Tollesbury Arts Trail, now growing into a full online gallery for the village’s artistic community.
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An accessibility-first homepage concept for the village GP practice: plain language, WCAG 2.2 AA contrast and the two commonest tasks first. Partly adopted by the surgery.
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A digital platform replacing paper processes at a sailing club: trip planning, crew management, governance.
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My own publishing imprint. Two books in progress: Useful, on enterprise software, and The Neurotic Gene.
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jharbourne.com is built to the standard it advertises: every push lints the code, audits each page in a real browser, and fails on any slip.
It takes almost nothing from you. The analytics are cookieless: no cookies, no profile of you, and no fonts phoning home. The only thing kept on your device is whether you chose light or dark.
The same rules run through the work: cookieless, EU-hosted analytics rather than Google’s, apps that install from the browser rather than an app store, logins only for editing, and accessibility checked rather than asserted.