Ben Shave @ben-shave.bsky.social I work at the House of Commons. Currently: Science, Innovation and Technology select committee. Previously: Public Accounts and Brexit committees.
Apart from that, I'm mostly being a dad and cycling. My views.
Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social co-founder of various organizations: Interrupting Criminalization; Survived & Punished; Sojourners for Justice Press; For the People Leftist Library Project, NYC PLAN, etc...
Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social This is a police hating and human existence loving account
Whenever I do satire everyone thinks its news and whenever I do news everyone thinks it's satire so good luck with these posts I guess
On Mastodon: Criminalerin.jorts.horse
She/they/guy
Matt Edgar @mattedgar.social.coop.ap.brid.gy #Digital director in the #NHS, #SocialHousing non-exec, and history botherer in my spare time. I quit newspapers for new media in 1997. "You can always come back," […]
🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://social.coop/@mattedgar, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact
Emma Parnell @emmaparnell.bsky.social Taking a relational approach to co-designing the services that impact people's lives.
Service design consultant, writer, mentor, public speaker.
Designing over at Design for Joy: designforjoy.co.uk
she/her
Amy Hoy @amyhoy.bsky.social - OG web - design - hci - reading - writing - saas biz - edu biz - photos - cats - desert - she
"a powerfully repulsive mixture of dense, stubborn and arrogant" to people who don't like facts.
Anil Dash @anildash.com the internet's uncle • waging a victorious 2-front war against cars and christmas • big fan of being a big fan of things • go read https://anildash.com
James O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk @Psythor on Twitter. Freelance writer covering politics/tech/nerd stuff.
Read my content: takes.jamesomalley.co.uk
Yes, I inevitably have a podcast too: abundancepod.com
Free the Postcode Address File!
Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co Hey, I'm a climate and energy writer / data analyst who focuses on corporate + govt accountability
Creator + curator of the Greensky feed: https://ketanjoshi.co/greensky/
Based in Oslo but write about US, Europe, Aus too - ketan.joshi85@gmail.com
Web Witch 🔮 Stephanie Stimac @seaotta.dev 💻 Designer & PM for DevEx & Web Platform
📚 Author of Design for Developers.
🔮 Sassy web witch & actual witch.
🏴 Seattle gal in England.
💍 @jhey.dev
https://seaotta.dev
Martin Wright @mynameismartin.co.uk I design stuff and try not to make the world worse while doing it. he/him
Sam Leith @questingvole.bsky.social @spectator lit ed. “Clock-white, still friendly to the earth.” https://bit.ly/TheHauntedWood
Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social Journalist. Author. Podcaster. Liberal extremist.
Shaun Gomm @shaungomm.bsky.social Commercial Director @Nexer_Digital. Human-centred design. Accessibility. Host and organiser of #CampDigital Leftie. #NUFC fan
Jane Ruffino @janeruffino.bsky.social Content/UX and contemporary archaeology. Human/dog mom. She/her.
Allergic to unwanted advice.
Anna E. Cook @annaecook.com Award winning bog hag, platform and systems designer in tech (derogatory), accessibility advocate, happily neurodivergent 💙
Website: https://annaecook.com/
Newsletter: https://annaecook.com/newsletter
Imran Hussain @imhuyorks.bsky.social Love all things collaboration and community. Founder of GovCamp North and Design System Day. Organiser UKGovCamp, Services Week and GovJams.
Currently doing community @gdsteam.
Site: https://www.imranhussain.uk
Cooper Lund @cooperlund.online The Wild West Begins Where Your Body Ends
Nour Sidawi @noursidawi.uk Reflecting on the complexity of systems and making change in government at UK Civil Service. Part of OneTeamGov.
noursidawi.uk
Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social Senior Vice President of Woke 5
David Darnes @darn.es Senior Engineer working on Polaris at Shopify
Previously: @zeroheight.com, Nord Design System, @ghost.org.
Clients: Google, @buffer.com and @netlify.com.
[he/him]
https://darn.es
https://designsystems.wtf
#DesignSystems, #WebComponents & #Frontend
Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social Writer, actor, audiobook narrator, notorious tryhard 
Sharon Dale (she/they) @pixlz.com Empowering Neurodivergent professionals to thrive at work
Coach, Facilitator & public speaker. ADHDer, rescue dog servant, carer, #vanlife, South West is best. http://21cmindset.com
Russell Garner @rgarner.bsky.social Likes cats, Ruby, bicycles, drums, synths, photography, flippancy, unions.
Audi alteram partem.
Leeds, UK
Founder at @jointogether.online
Heledd Quaeck @helivans.bsky.social Dyfal Donc a Dyr y Garreg.
Persistent tapping will break the stone.
#IStillBelieveInDigitalTransformation
Own views - mostly about:
Cymraeg / Welsh 🏴
User-centred services for public good
Sam @smithsam.bsky.social Believes in better data with informed privacy for all. Day job @medconfidential amongst other things. he/him http://is.gd/samblog 🧘♂️ #FILDI
Cambridge
Mark O’Neill 🐻 @radiobeartime.com Ursine Plenipotentiary. Defrocked astrophysicist. Aire échta for hire.
Official sponsor of the 🐻 emoji
“O fish, are you constant to the old covenant?”
Was @marxculture on Twitter
Alastair Somerville @acuity.design Clarity and kindness as foundations for work. Information perception in physical & digital places. Facilitation and workshop design for codesign and civic assemblies. Public prototyping on BlueSky. He/him
Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social Hopeful technologist.
Community tech, careful innovation, socially progressive tech policy.
https://www.careful.industries
https://hopeful.technology
https://buttondown.email/justenoughinternet
DMs don't work but hello@careful.industries will find me
Paul Pod @paulpod.bsky.social Designer. Ex GOV, NHS, startups. Lives in Wales, London @paulpod on most things
🏴 website: Neuromantics.net
📨 signal: paulpod.404
Feargal Cochrane @feargalc.bsky.social Professor (Emeritus) University of Kent. Also Prof at University of Warwick.
Have taught & written about political conflict & peacebuilding for last 30 years. Still learning. Living in Peak District England but FROM Belfast in NI.
Politics nerd
Emily Webber @ewebber.bsky.social People first, organisation consultant. Author of Building Successful Communities of Practice and creator of the Team Onion.
Londoner in Merseyside.
Blog at emilywebber.co.uk
Biz at hellotacit.com
Other websites and projects at ewebber.co.uk
Simon Willison @simon.fedi.simonwillison.net.ap.brid.gy Open source developer building tools to help journalists, archivists, librarians and others analyze, explore and publish their data. https://datasette.io […]
[bridged from https://fedi.simonwillison.net/@simon on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
Alice Goldman @alicegoldman.bsky.social Government digital, public policy design and a one-woman crusade to stop AI engines being given female names
Laura Parker @accessiblenumbers.bsky.social Senior content designer in UK government. Creator of accessiblenumbers.com. Dyscalculia Network adult advisor. Writes and talks about living with #dyscalculia and maths anxiety.
Work with me. lauraparker.design
Dan Hon @danhon.com Hi, it's me, I'm the problem etc etc
me: https://about.danhon.com
i make: https://donotreply.cards
work: https://verylittlegravitas.com/
my hallway track: https://verylittlegravitas.com/hallwaytrack
DM or Signal danhon.1701
Lizzie Bruce @lizziecake.bsky.social Not everything needs to be digital. Content strategist, project manager: arts, nature, law, gov. Author, readability specialist, online course creator. Run #UCDFreelancersDirectory. Books, films, hikes. Photo by me. cakeconsultancy.com
Gaz Aston @gazaston.com Design n’ that. UCD in government & tech for good.
Lover of nature. Dad of dog. Maker of bread and beats.
Kathryn Grace 🕊️ @iamkathryngrace.bsky.social Design Leader:
Service & Systems Design
Keeping digital health and care human and joining it up
A List Apart “for people who make websites” 1997–? @alistapart.com A List Apart (ISSN: 1534-0295) explores the design, development, and meaning of web content, with a special focus on web standards and best practices. We began as a mailing list in 1997 and launched the web magazine in 1998. https://www.alistapart.com
zeldman @zeldman.bsky.social “King of Web Standards”—Businessweek. OG web designer/blogger. Automattician. zeldman.com + alistapart.com. Wrote “Designing With Web Standards.” Founded Happy Cog studio. Taught MFA IXD at SVA NYC. Co-founded A Book Apart & An Event Apart (RIP).
Dave Cunningham @davecunningham.bsky.social Designer who does DesignOps and accessibility. Once left my tent on a coach.
https://www.amplify-us.co.uk
Paul Lomax @paullomax.co.uk Chief Digital Officer in Media. Manc, leftie, foodie, cook, dad, feminist. Talks tech, science, politics, #mcfc, ADHD, gardening, transport, & data. Orange & natural wine fan. Lives in Hythe near Folkestone, Kent, UK. 🇪🇺🇬🇧🇨🇦Opinions my own.
Chris Bush @chrisbush.bsky.social Head of Design Group @ Nexer
Bit of a geek.
Loves all things inclusion.
Very anti-racist.
Joe Lanman @joelanman.com Design Lead on data.gov.uk at the UK Government Digital Service
Projects include Register to Vote, Petition Parliament, GovWifi and the GOV.UK Prototype Kit
https://joelanman.com
Duncan Brown @duncanjbrown.com I make software. i.AI, NHS, DfE
https://mechanicalsurvival.com
Andrew Travers @andrewtravers.com Designer and researcher working with the UK's public sector. I wrote ‘Interviewing for research’ once upon a time. Occasionally blogging here: andrewtravers.com
Nick Tune @nick-tune.me Author of Architecture Modernization
Curator of legacy-modernization.io
Check out my DDD list to find lots of DDD people on here
- nick-tune.me
- @nick_tune@hachyderm.io
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/nick-tune/
#legacyModernization #ddDesign
Beth Walton @bethgracewalton.bsky.social Lead content designer at TPXimpact. Lurking to read government digital and design stuff.
Mark Boyd @markboyd.bsky.social Mostly here to talk about how to build open digital ecosystems where everyone can participate and co-create (platformable.com) and to share my queer fetish comedy fiction (akamarkboyd.com). He/him 🏳️🌈📚
Merlan Ltd. @merlan.bsky.social Merlan, a consultancy specialising in user centred product design & research.
Simon Morgan-Wilson @officeofwilson.com Actual life: Wanderings! Art, design! Buildings! Bridges! Running! Music! GTFC! etc etc!
Work: Product and service person.
📍From Grimsby
🏠 Saltaire, W Yorkshire, UK
Previously just Simon Wilson, then married @texmac.bsky.social
www.officeofwilson.com
Ed Horsford @edwardhorsford.bsky.social 
Gavin Weeks @flikq.dev CoFounder & Champion of UI/UX & Dev https://kolex.gg digital & hybrid collectibles, https://flikq.dev, https://deltasync.pro #F1 platform, https://unwrapped.flikq.dev & https://sky.flikq.dev - I design, scope & build stuff - React/React Native - Sim Racer
Joe They/Them @engiqueer.net Late 20s Enby bi mess by day and night.
UK-based, I am a nerd
LGBT+ advocate.
My opinions are my own!
Caroline Jarrett @cjforms.bsky.social Forms and survey specialist.
Always keen to try to answer your questions about making better forms (and if you must, maybe even those about surveys).
Effortmark.co.uk
Ben Butcher @benbutcher.bsky.social Data Editor at the Telegraph. Pro-cats and pro-naps.
rhiannonldavies @rhiannonldavies.bsky.social Digital enabler for HigherEd & Charity
Trustee for GardenOrganicUK
IT & Digital Director for Association of Charitable Foundations
Digital Advisor & Mentor for Exeter Uni
Digital Leadership Coach
AltMBA | ADHD | Bristol | Feminist | She/Her
Willy Brauner @willybrauner.com Front-end developer, driven by design.
Former lead front-end @ cher-ami.tv.
Musician, drummer.
Based in Lyon, France.
Freelancer
↳ https://willybrauner.com
↳ https://github.com/willybrauner
Kyle Lambert @lambert.fun I would say I’m a designer, my parents would say I make internet things. My parents are right. Senior Staff Product Designer at Webflow.
imkylelambert.com
Cathy Dutton @cathydutton.co.uk Service Design & Delivery at the Department for Education. CSS enthusiast, Intrinsic Design fan.
www.cathydutton.co.uk
Ashlee 🤟🏻 @ashleemboyer.com Deaf, ND, multiply disabled.
W3C Invited Expert participating in WCAG 3.
Software eng. & consultant:
@ashlee.semanticfish.com
Blog:
ashleemboyer.com
More writing:
@semanticfish.net
Interests: crip theory & critical access/disability studies.
Steve Garrett @stevengarrett.bsky.social Usually 🏃♂️ and navigating 🚧
Data and digital with a dash of optimism
James Green @jamesgreenux.bsky.social Head of User Centred Design at Farsight Consulting (now acquired by Version 1). User Experience and Digital Transformation (particularly in UK Public Sector). Dad and husband. Driver, listener, gamer, baller.
davelovemartin @davelovemartin.bsky.social 🦄 front-of-the-front-end engineer
💎 design with code
✨ build to learn; iterate to innovate 🚀
Stuart Mackenzie @hellostu.xyz - Lover of public services 👩🏼⚕️
- Parkrun enthusiast 🏃♂️🌳
- Amatuer Photographer 📷
- Occasional Podcaster 🎤
- Senior Partner at TPXimpact ✊❤️
- Remembered for my dance moves 🕺🏼
- Proud resident of Dorset 🌊
https://hellostu.xyz/
Michael Gearon @michaelgearon.bsky.social Senior Interaction Designer at Government Digital Service (GDS) • Co-Author of Tiny CSS Projects • Working between Cardiff & Bristol
https://mgearon.com
Julide Troedson @julidetroedson.bsky.social Philanthropy - Fundraising - Leadership - Arts - Heritage - Health - Wellbeing - People
Ian Fenn @ifenn.bsky.social Product designer; Former radio producer and food writer; Trained Chinese chef; Awesomely autistic; @assistancecats.bsky.social handler. Associate of the Inner Magic Circle.
Vanessa Longley @vanessalongley.bsky.social She/her. CEO at Beat eating disorders. Chair @ContactFamilies. Believes lived experience told powerfully can change the world!
Ross McCulloch @thirdsectorlab.co.uk Tech for good insights, digital activism and occasional photos of Scotland.
Founder at Third Sector Lab - Helping charities deliver more impact with digital, data & design ⚡️
https://thirdsectorlab.co.uk/
36k Twitter followers - starting from 0 here.
Katy Beale @katybeale.bsky.social Cycling, running, raving.
Ceramics.
Local gov, tech for good & public purpose.
Design and digital.
🏳️🌈
Currently: CDEO, Westminster City Council
Previously: Hackney Council, DHSC, Equal Experts, Yodomo, Caper.
Jeni Tennison @jenitennison.com Data nerd/wonk. Founder of Connected by Data, campaigning for communities to have a powerful say over data and AI.
Into trans rights, neurodiversity, board games, lego, dogs, spreadsheets.
www.jenitennison.com
dxw @dxw.com We design, build and run digital public services that make people's lives better.
dxw is employee owned.
Find out more about us 👉 https://linktr.ee/_dxw
UK Gov Camp @ukgovcamp.com Unconferences and support for people interested in making the public sector better. https://www.ukgovcamp.com/
Frankie Roberto @frankieroberto.com Freelance interaction designer. X-GOVUK contributor. London dad. Car-free cities. Working for NHS England.
https://www.frankieroberto.com
Tim Paul @timpaul.co.uk Head of Creative and Design at The Incubator for Artificial Intelligence (i.AI), GDS. He/him. Views his own, not his employers.
Clara Greo @claragt.bsky.social Community, capability & equity in design and UCD. Not white. she/her. Grieving. Resting.✊🏿🏳️⚧️🍉🌏
Jesse Yuen @jesseyuen.bsky.social Designing products and services for good, not evil.
jesseyuen.com
Kuba Bartwicki @kubabartwicki.bsky.social designing on gov.uk · writing on kubabartwicki.com
Martha Henson @marthasadie.bsky.social Digital producer/consultant/product manager/mentor/user researcher/game mechanic. Eclectic. Nature nerd. Proto yoga studies scholar. Isle of Wight Biosphere. Old Internet Person (the title of my newsletter) www.marthahenson.com
Sarah Drummond @rufflemuffin.bsky.social Filmmaker / Directing #section28film
Founder: anthrobricolage.com
Director: good.services @theschoolofgood
DR of Design, once ran
@wearesnook
Made cycling easier with @cycle_hack
GOOD Magazine #100
Board member at @lomondtrossachs
She/they
Harry Scott-Trimble @harrytrimble.bsky.social Designer | harrytrimble.com
Mat Johnson @demotive.bsky.social I’m a designer who loves working in healthcare. Increasingly frantic arm waving.
My dog is my best friend, but I'm not sure he agress with this statement.
demotive.com
Tory Dunn @stradella.bsky.social Designing public services, former typography nerd, amateur, accordion player, SE Londoner - trying to help change things. Opinions are my own.
Afsa Akbar @afsa.bsky.social 💛💃🏽🏔🏝 proud laalo, 🌍 explorer, tranforming public services in the UAE, creating memories one adventure at a time 
Paul Smith @paulmsmith.bsky.social Lead Interaction Designer at NHS England. Generally designing, prototyping, coding & problem solving. Often drinking a disproportionate amount of tea in rainy Manchester.
Andy Jones 🏳️🌈 @andyjones.bsky.social Head of Design (Content, Service and Interaction Design) - Dept for Education.
Ex-Dog dad, plant dad. Lover of coffee, cake, all things Scandinavian, design and architecture. Neurospicy, ADHD and colourblind.
Can’t get messages.
Mark Dalgarno @markdalgarno.bsky.social Delivery @ http://createchange.io - Digital Transformation, UCD, Agile methods.
He/Him. I don't speak for my clients.
Organiser Agile Manchester, Agile Cambridge, Lean Agile Scotland, Ripples: Bristol, UX Scotland, SDinGov, Lean Agile Exchange
Ashleigh Roberts Collacott @itsashleighhyo.bsky.social Women In Tech Advocate | Driving innovation and transformation across Defence, Government and Policing
Si Manby @cthimon.bsky.social Product person at Justice Digital UK
Charlene Squires @charlenesquire5.bsky.social Senior Business Analyst @DWPDigital | Volunteer Enterprise Advisor @careerent | Social Mobility Advocate | Mentor | She/her | All views my own
Nexer_Digital @nexerdigital.com Designing digital products and inclusive services that help people to live and work better. Health, research, charity, public and education. We run #CampDigital
Tom Morgan @tsmz.bsky.social Designer working in Gov. Digging, mapping, making and iterating. Putting users first. Welsh-ish. Dad x2. Inveterate doodler. Comedy geek.
Simon Willison @simonwillison.net Independent AI researcher, creator of datasette.io and llm.datasette.io, building open source tools for data journalism, writing about a lot of stuff at https://simonwillison.net/
Public Digital @publicdigital.bsky.social We're a specialist digital transformation consultancy. We help governments, businesses and companies change their ways of working and thrive in the digital era.
https://public.digital/