I’m James Barnes. I design and build websites and apps. Since 2021 I’ve been in-house at Corning, where I designed and built the 175 Years anniversary site on my own.

I build software that tries to get out of the way. Lately, that’s meant things like Deadsound, a discovery-first app for listening to the Grateful Dead’s live archive that tames a bunch of user-generated content to reveal connections between songs, shows, tapers, and more.

I also spent a long time working at agencies like Huge, AKQA, and Siegel+Gale, where I shipped a bunch of work that tends not to fit into the tidiest of boxes. Sometimes, that’s what it takes.

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