Bernard Tyers
Independent User Researcher, Interaction And Service Designer at Interaction Design
United Kingdom
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Top SchoolBernard Tyers is an independent user researcher, interaction and service designer with 15 years in technology and a decade-plus focused on user-centred design for complex, security-sensitive public services. He combines deep domain experience from telecoms and government (SC security clearance) with hands-on expertise in identity verification, privacy-preserving design, and international field research across harsh and regulated environments. Bernard has led research and service design for projects like Electronic Visa Waiver and GAMSTOP, founded the Open Source Design collective to advocate UX in FOSS, and contributes documentation to high-profile open-source projects such as pip. He excels at pragmatic prototyping and mixed-methods research—ethnography, co-design, and usability testing—and has built low-cost usability labs to scale research capacity. Colleagues rely on him for ethical research practice on sensitive topics (addiction, censorship circumvention) and for translating complex policy and technical constraints into usable, trustworthy services.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
MSc, Human-Centred Interaction, MSc, Human-Centred Interaction at City University LondonBachelor of Technology (BTech), Electronic Engineering, Bachelor of Technology (BTech), Electronic Engineering at Waterford Institute of Technology
English, Spanish, German
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Github Skills (4)
documentation10
pip10
python4
packaging4
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
pypa/pip
Oct 2020 - Nov 2020
The Python package installer
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:16 reviews, 14 commits, 9 PRs in 21 days
Contributions summary:Bernard primarily contributed to the documentation of the pip package installer. Their work involved writing and updating the user guide, specifically focusing on the "Dependency resolution backtracking" section. The user added explanations, examples, and solutions related to backtracking behavior during pip installs. They also incorporated feedback and edits from code reviews.
pythonpackage-installerpippackaginginstaller
ei8fdb/SUS-translations
Nov 2016 - Mar 2018
A project to translate the System Usability Scale into other languages
Contributions:8 commits, 1 PR, 10 pushes in 1 year 4 months
usabilitytranslationsystem-usability-scalescaletranslate
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