Pat Bertini @patbertini.bsky.social Inquisitive & curious mind exploring:
- Responsible AI & ML
- Privacy & data protection
- Accessibility & digital inclusion
Articles on Medium: https://medium.com/@pat-bertini
Dave House @iknowdavehouse.bsky.social Design Systems | Aircooled VWs | Made a few records you don’t have
https://www.das.house
Geri Reid @gerireid.com Everyone’s fave goth Mom.
Lead Accessibility Specialist at Just Eat. Design systems and nerdery. Be kind ❤️
gerireid.com
Gail Mellows @gmellows.bsky.social Lead user experience designer at Co-op.
Tinkering with ceramics and screen printing too. I cook and bake a lot as eating is very important.
Tom Johnson @designingdesign.co.uk Regreening designer
Fka oldguard
https://designingdesign.co.uk/
Tom Walker @walkertom.bsky.social A northern boy. I’ve worked at a few places here. Prefer my camera to my camera.
@matttyas.bsky.social @matttyas.bsky.social
Mike Gifford, CPWA @ox.ca Open Standards & Practices lead at @CivicActions.com | #Drupal #Accessibility | Digital Services Coalition Board | @w3c Invited Expert #SustainableWeb #ARRM | http://ox.ca | #SolarPunk #Quaker #Feminist #Canadian #WebAlmanac #IAAPCPWA
#UNOpenSourceWeek
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/
Amy McNichol @amymcnichol.bsky.social Knows her own know best. Agile comms and content design. Curator of @allconsuming.bsky.social
Be consumed: ithoughtaboutthatalot.com
Subscribe: buttondown.email/ithoughtalot
@jo-scho.bsky.social @jo-scho.bsky.social Content design and strategy.
Jina @jina.social Design Systems Advocate / GDE / they/she / 🩷💜💙 / 🇰🇷🇮🇹hapa / neurodivergent / drag stan / cheerful goth
jina.me
Founder of @clarityconf.com
Eric Bailey @ericwbailey.website #accessibility / #a11y advocate, post enjoyer.
🌐 https://ericwbailey.website/
✉️ https://ericwbailey.website/newsletter/
@northernrover.bsky.social @northernrover.bsky.social
Stuart Robson @sturobson.com 👋 currently looking for new client work
🖤 Design Systems Practitioner
🛠 Front-End Developer
📰 Curates Design Systems News
🏎️ Formula One Watcher
🧟♂ Horror Fan
🍖 BBQ’er
🖥️ www.alwaystwisted.com
📜 news.design.systems
Llibertat UK (Katrina) @llibertatuk.bsky.social Design for humans. End to end, front to back, user-centred digital services with real impact for the public, private and third sectors globally. Led by former GOV.UK Head of Content Padma Gillen. Accessible by design. Posts by Katrina (she/her)
Scott Stephens @scottwstephens.com Design Lead @ Valtech helping our clients with DesignOps and Design Systems.
Big fan of: Cycling, Gaming, Pizza, Photography , Spurs
https://scottwstephens.com- A Accessibility Manchester @a11ymcr.bsky.social We are an inclusive meet up for people interested in accessibility. Sharing knowledge and giving people a platform to share.
hilaryonline.bsky.social @hilaryonline.bsky.social Interests veer wildly from pop culture and TV/film nostalgia, to LGBTQ+, Eurovision and digital inclusion. Cumbrian, in Stockport, working in human centered design for Sweden via Macclesfield. Wife, kids, whippet 🌈
Alicia 🇨🇦 @a11yalicia.bsky.social Senior Technical Product Manager II at Bell, award-winning Product Inclusion Strategist. Views expressed are mine.
Dan Donald @hereinthehive.bsky.social Design System Consultant. Design, Dev & Product. Prev zeroheight, Auto Trader, BBC
All about design systems, design tokens, product design and occasionally making music at @thesedeadmachines.bsky.social
Becky Colley, UX Designer @beckycolley.bsky.social Lead UX Consultant. Woman in STEM. Adobe UX Designer to Watch. I like exploring places, befriending dogs, and solving problems. Here to chat about work stuff but views all mine. Manchester, UK 📍
Gareth Ford Williams @garethfw.bsky.social Accessibility Old Timer, ex-BBC Head of UX/Accessibility, Web/Mobile/Games/Fonts/Design Systems.
Has #Dyslexia and #ADHD.
Director of Ab11y.com and A11yQuest.com #a11y #UXDesign #accessibility
James Buller @jbuller.bsky.social Lead Accessibility Consultant: UK Civil Service. UX & communications professional in public/charity sectors #CPACC #Logistician #ESTJ #VI #Londoner He/Him
Simon Wardley. @swardley.bsky.social Mapper. I like ducks, they're fowl but not through choice.
Lily Dart @lilydart.bsky.social Design Director @photobox. 20 years in design. 10 yrs public speaking. Diversity, inclusion & design at scale. Advisory board @innovateheruk she/her 🏳️🌈 ♿️
Andy Budd @andybudd.bsky.social Design Founder, speaker, start-up advisor & coach. Seedcamp Venture Partner. Formerly Clearleft, LDConf & UXLondon. Ex shark-wrangler. Pilot. He/Him — https://stacklist.app/andybudd
Colin @htmlandbacon.com Front-end developer working in Government.
Inclusive design advocate, html and taco fan.
https://htmlandbacon.com/
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
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
Dr. Jabe Bloom @cyetain.com CMU Design PhD, SocioTechnologist, Ergonaut.
Sarah Winters @escmum.bsky.social Founder and CEO of Content Design London
Cat person with a dog. (And a cat, horse, hamster and fish.)
Really hoping this takes over from the other place.
Jeff Gothelf @jeffgothelf.bsky.social Author, speaker, trainer - www.jeffgothelf.com and www.okr-book.com
Katy Arnold @katyarnie.bsky.social Previously building and leading #UCD at Home Office Digital, now helping organisations with user research and digital transformation. Musician, feminist, wild swimmer, camper van owner. She/her.
Giles Turnbull @gilestur.bsky.social \o/
https://gilest.org • https://usethehumanvoice.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
Chris Combe @chriscombe.com Recovering CTO/Architect/Ways of working lead (formerly), bow all things product and strategy.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chriscombe/
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.
Rebekah Barry @rebekahbarry.bsky.social Content and strategy consultant.
Author of Considerate Content - How to make your content more inclusive and accessible, with a focus on neurodivergence and health conditions.
https://contentdesign.london/shop/considerate-content-by-rebekah-barry
Sara Soueidan @sarasoueidan.com 🇱🇧 Frontend web / UI engineer, speaker, author, and educator specializing in web accessibility • Creator of the Practical Accessibility course https://practical-accessibility.today
🕸️ https://sarasoueidan.com
📤 https://www.sarasoueidan.com/newsletter
Matt Edgar @mattedgar.bsky.social @mattedgar@social.coop is my home in the #fediverse, with a verified link to my homepage https://social.coop/@mattedgar
Bridged posts to Bluesky: @mattedgar.social.coop.ap.brid.gy
Cara Bermingham @berms.bsky.social Work wise I coach teams to deliver better products and services. A side sleeper with neck pain. Newly located in Helsinki
Vimla Appadoo @thatgirlvim.bsky.social Co-Founder of Honey Badger. Trustee of diversityuk. Board member at Greater Manchester LEP. Podcaster. Keynote Speaker. Won some awards.
www.thatgirlvim.com
Kathryn Grace 🕊️ @iamkathryngrace.bsky.social Design Leader:
Service & Systems Design
Keeping digital health and care human and joining it up
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
Matthew Skelton @matthewskelton.com CEO at Conflux | Exec Advisory | Operating Models | Capability Design | Co-author of 'Team Topologies' and 'Adapt Together'
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
Kara Kane @karakane-kk.bsky.social Design leadership — writing a book called Strong Design.
Teresa Torres @producttalk.bsky.social Author, Speaker, Product Discovery Coach
I write (words and code), teach, and make things at ProductTalk.org.
Anne Currie @annecurrie.bsky.social Technologist, folk artist, scifi and non fiction author: O'Reilly's Building Green Software, The Cloud Native Attitude & the SciFi Panopticon series
Christina Wodtke @cwodtke.bsky.social Contains multitudes.
Author of Radical Focus and many more.
Lecturer at Stanford.
Often somewhere with a beach and ruins.
Lou Downe @loudowne.bsky.social Founder of @theschoolofgood
Chief bean-wrangler @brodbox
Ex-Design Director of the UK Gov.
Proudly dyslexic & non-binary 🌈 they/he
Jamie Arnold @jamiearnold.com Humanist, agilist, ale-ist. DOGS. Sometimes, I write things down at jamiearnold.com.
Dan @dandoescontent.bsky.social Content design, systems & structure. // Advocate of a lighter, more efficient & more accessible internet.
Rob Whiting 📓 @whitingx.bsky.social #Research & #Design at @merlan.bsky.social ⟹ Narrow of purpose, wide of vision. ツ
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
Jukesie @jukes.ie Bristolian | internet of public service person | comic book collector | street art seeker | Adidas obsessive | 50s | UK
https://jukes.ie
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
Jeremy Keith @adactio.com Mediocre middle-aged white man from Ireland living in Brighton, England working with Clearleft.
I play traditional Irish music on mandolin and I play slide bouzouki in the band Salter Cane.
https://adactio.com
Anna Goss @annagoss.co Deputy director of Test, Learn & Grow. Otherwise mostly hanging out with my dog.
Ben Holliday @benholliday.com Design and digital transformation | Chief Design Officer at TPXimpact | UK Lake District
Chris Bush @chrisbush.bsky.social Head of Design Group @ Nexer
Bit of a geek.
Loves all things inclusion.
Very antiracist.
https://gather.human.cx (Resources)
https://www.human.cx (Personal site)
https://www.nexergroup.com
Amy Everett @amyeverett.bsky.social Runner. Lead user researcher in NHS. Living in Sheffield with my wife and our two silly greyhounds.
Laura Yarrow @laurayarrow.bsky.social Head of Design for GOV.UK at GDS. Ex HM Land Registry. Public speaker. Observer of humans. Crisp connoisseur. Yarn hoarder. Northerner.
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.
Helen @socialsoup.bsky.social Designer in UK Gov. Made in State School. Haway man, woman man.
Ben Terrett @benterrett.bsky.social CEO of Public Digital. Former Deputy Chair of UAL. .
/benterrett everywhere else.
www.benterrett.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
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
Chris Gibbons @gbbns.co Design Engineer • Front End • Accessibility • Design systems • Framework agnostic • Astro • Northerner • Swearer • LFC • Buffalo Bills • Walker of Wainwrights
🔗 - http://gbbns.co
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.
Alex Hall @waysanddreams.bsky.social Systems design, design systems.
Design, strategy, systems, content, politics.
Interested in everything. Everything is connected.
Ian Ames @ames.world I help multidisciplinary teams deliver services in a user centred way.
Anagram of Amnesia.
Phil Hesketh @philhesketh.bsky.social Service Designer in the UK Gov. Co-founded Consent Kit. I like growing things. I like cats, and I like sandwiches.
Benjy Stanton @benjystanton.co.uk Contract interaction and service designer. User-centred design in gov. Accessibility. Music fan. https://www.benjystanton.co.uk/ He/him
Neil Vass @neil-vass.com Helping software teams work well together
Gaz Aston @gazaston.com Design n’ that. UCD in government & tech for good.
Lover of nature. Dad of dog. Maker of bread and beats.
Katherine Wastell @kwastell.bsky.social Helping organisations create better customer and colleague experiences through service design and digital transformation.
Senior Design Director at public.digital. Ex Co-op Digital, BBC.
katherinewastell.com
Vicky Teinaki @vickytnz.bsky.social Design (particularly of the digi-gov variety), books and brunch (usually from NE England). Brits think I sound Kiwi, Kiwis think I sound English. Links-a-plenty, views my own. https://vickyteinaki.com
Matthew Solle @matthewsolle.bsky.social
Gavin Elliott @gavinelliott.bsky.social Dad to 2 warrior princesses, partner who has 1 dopey Labrador. Builder, designer, autistic.
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
Kate Tarling @kateldn.bsky.social Supporting orgs to be more service-oriented through advisory, training and coaching. Author of The Service Organization book and running The Service Org Group. Also trail running. Sheffield.
Jack Garfinkel @curiousscutter.bsky.social Content design, dungarees, parenting, custard they/them
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
Brad Frost @bradfrost.com I make things and help people. Web designer & developer, teacher, consultant, speaker, writer, musician, & artist. Host of Wake Up Excited! Author of Atomic Design. Enthusiasm enthusiast.
Amy Hupe @amyhupe.bsky.social She/her
Design systems and content design consultant. Reckless shitposter.
amyhupe.co.uk
wearefrankly.co
#DesignSystems #ContentDesign #WriteTheDocs
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.
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.
Cathy Dutton @cathydutton.co.uk Service Design & Delivery at the Department for Education. CSS enthusiast, Intrinsic Design fan.
www.cathydutton.co.uk
John Cutler @johncutle.fish I like the beautiful mess of product development.| newsletter: https://cutlefish.substack.com
Craig Abbott @craigabbott.co.uk Principal Accessibility Specialist at TetraLogical. Former Head of Accessibility at DWP. Writer. Speaker. Coder. Wildlife Photographer. Cat botherer. ADHD. Autistic. He/They. https://www.craigabbott.co.uk
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