Fraser Hamilton

Fraser Hamilton is a co-founder and Director of Designed for All. He was the project manager on the Disability Rights Commission's first formal investigation into website accessibility, which involved evaluating 1,000 websites (39,000 web pages) and testing 100 sites with a panel of 50 people. The findings have informed government policy and set the agenda for the future of website development.

Fraser also led the user interface development for a Television-based Virtual Human Interface, VISTA, an avatar for interacting with televisions using speech recognition. It won a Royal Television Society Award in 2003. Prior to establishing Designed for All, he was a usability advisor at Iconmedialab, a Swedish web design agency. Before that, he held lecturing and research posts in Human-Computer Interaction at the Universities of Brighton and London.

He holds a BSc(Hons) in Computer Science and an Advanced MSc in Human-Computer Interaction. He is a Chartered Member of the British Computer Society, a Professional Member of the Association for Computing Machinery and a member of the Usability Professionals Association.

His work has been published in the UK, Continental Europe and the United States. In 2006 Fraser co-authored a paper on usability testing with his Designed for All colleagues for CHI 2006, the premier conference on Human-Computer Interaction. It was shortlisted for the conference's Best Paper Award.