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I hope this is the proper way to raise questions about individual rules questions and requests for clarity.
The Barricade feat (p. 146) has the following text:
BARRICADE [one-action] FEAT 1
GENERAL MANIPULATE
You hastily create a barricade using nearby items, junk, or debris. The barricade provides lesser cover for you and one other ally, though you can Take Cover to increase this benefit to standard cover. The barricade is flimsy and falls apart at the end of your next turn. There isn’t normally enough material for you to build a second barricade in the same space unless you’re in a particularly cluttered area (at the GM’s discretion).
It doesn't designate where this barricade is built. Is it a line bordering your space, facing one direction? And is it limited to an ADJACENT ally? I would have to think so.
Since it doesn't specify where you build it, I am going to run it as providing lesser cover to you and 1 adjacent ally facing all directions...
Yeah, there's a general problem with Taking Cover and other rules that deal with cover in that the expectation is for cover to be always be directional by default unless specified otherwise, yet in practice the rules are so vague that RAW the cover is likely omnidirectional even when it shouldn't be. Barricade suffers from the same problem, and I feel this vagueness has a significant impact in a game where everybody Takes Cover a lot, and where the lack of directionality to cover as a baseline kills many potential benefits to positioning.