Profile; who is the B behind AbsoluteB?

My name is Barry Huizenga, I’m a graphic artist, a web designer and a front-end developer with a passion for unique, out of the box thinking and solution development with focus on web standards, usability and SEO. I currently in reside in Groningen, the Netherlands where I live with my girlfriend and our cat Chow.

I’ve been designing, working and playing with multimedia and web design and development for over 12 years and to this day it remains a passion of mine to create exciting, functional and unique designs that push the expectations and goals of my clients even further, as well as my own personal boundaries and standards as a professional.

Don’t confuse what I do for a hobby I’ve taken too far! I take my work very seriously. Over the years I have worked on and even managed various web design/development projects and have been involved in pretty much every phase between initial client consultation and brainstorm till post-launch maintenance. I’ve worked on long term projects which allowed for 6 month windows for planning and design prepping (those were awesome), as well as insane rush jobs where I was expected to design and develop up to 45 WordPress designs in 4 weeks (not so awesome). I’m not saying I enjoy or agree with it all (writing up a lengthy functional design can be tedious as well as explain to people with no design experience that their idea might not work as well as they think, isn’t that fun) but I get a kick out of being involved throughout any given project and understand that even pixel pushing production work is sometimes necessary. In other words, every new project and task is an opportunity to experiment with new methods, techniques and technologies that make the work I deliver even more effective, efficient and satisfying.

I challenge myself to challenge what might be considered the norm or a standard in web design and development. I believe that understanding standards in design and development are just as important as knowing which one’s can be tweaked and altered or even ignored because in doing so, you open the possibility to creating something one of a kind and something unique.