Think Digital Partners @thinkdigitalptns.bsky.social Connecting the public sector technology community through news, events and insights on digital transformation, AI, cybersecurity and more.
Debbie Blanchard @debblanch44.bsky.social Dreamer of dreams, lover of theatre, drinker of gin...
Government Product Person and community builder
Volunteer @guidedogs.
Tailender.
School governor, Enterprise Advisor
She/her
Darwin Peltan @darwinp.bsky.social Public sector Product and Delivery person, Husband, Dad and Hot Air Balloon Pilot 
Andrew Hick @andrewhick.bsky.social Accessibility and test person at Government Digital Service, AndrewHick.com. Bath UK, he/him, opinions my own.
Profile picture: white beardy man smiling.
Banner: colour chart with "blue" and "sky" colours prominent.
sonia @soniabasz.bsky.social Service design/CX consultant. Systems thinker. I help people communicate at work.
www.baszstudio.com
Kate Ivey-Williams @kateiw.bsky.social Head of Service Design for the Open University, ex GOV.UK. Van life, plants, dancing etc.
Iain Hinchliffe @terekhova.bsky.social 🏴 Service Design & User Experience professional, former Fifer, current Edinburgh resident, Whisky lover, Feminist, Socialist, LGBTQIA+ Ally, Humanist, geek, musician in Part Chimp
@terekhova@mastodon.scot
@iainhinchliffe
Kate F @k8080.bsky.social Service Design and Civic Tech /// Former 18F, Lab at OPM, IRS Direct File
Kathryn Grace 🕊️ @iamkathryngrace.bsky.social Design Leader:
Service & Systems Design
Keeping digital health and care human and joining it up
Rodrigo “Ro” (he/him) 🌹 @rodrigosanchez.bsky.social Service Designer reducing barriers through Inclusive Service Design /
Latine / Cis M / past @ Square Enix, @ Eidos Montreal, @ Weight Watchers US, etc. etc. / My opinions
UK ⬅️ MTL ⬅️ NYC ⬅️ LA ⬅️
https://www.flightstudio1.com/linktree.html
Andrew Maier @andrewmaier.bsky.social UX research, service design, and facilitation — possibly in that order, depending on the day. Dad. Avid reader, occasional writer, amateur vocalist and baker. He/him. Montreal, QC, Canada 🇨🇦
cameron tonkinwise @camerontw.bsky.social transition design, service design, design philosophy, finitude
- most of my occasional thinking these days takes advantage of the slightly longer form afforded by the truly awful linkedin, sorry: https://au.linkedin.com/in/cameron-tonkinwise-80a5987
Martha Edwards @maredwards.bsky.social Service Design and user research things 🇨🇦 🇬🇧
Tweets are my own and don't reflect who I might work for or with
Mena @ximenasoto.bsky.social UK-based consultant
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ximenasotosoutullo/
Subject Matter Non-expert in public innovation, digital transformation and all that jazz 🎶
PhD in Policy and Public Service Design
Huge fan of Human Rights
Español & English
Selena Killick @selenakillick.com Senior User Researcher & Strategist. PhD Researcher. Interested in evidence-led service design, institutional impact, and making research accessible.
Often found watching cricket.
Sophie Drouet @sophiedrouet.bsky.social Service design things. Posts about user-centred design, digital, the charity & public sectors and causes I care about (e.g. books, birds, history and social issues) 🇫🇷 🇬🇧 She/her
Chelsey Delaney @chelsed.bsky.social Repro UX and service design // Citizen Tech Collective (CTC) cofounder // Pro abortion // South Texan (361) x NYer // she/ella
Hire CTC for badass shit: https://direct.me/citizentechcollective
Ignacia Orellana @ignaciaorellana.bsky.social Independent service design and digital transformation lead.
Mainly works in public sector.
Previously: Service Design lead @gdsteam. Chilena en Londres
She/her
https://ignaciaorellana.com/
Dan Turner @ddt.bsky.social Same ddt. Working in service design for govtech. Bikes, books, cats. But I get out. All content here is personal.
If you know how it works, you are not the user. If your mother says she loves you, find a second source.
Cathy Dutton @cathydutton.co.uk Service Design & Delivery at the Department for Education. CSS enthusiast, Intrinsic Design fan.
www.cathydutton.co.uk
Ariel Kennan @arielmai.bsky.social Building @axiom.org
Ask me about service design, public benefits, product, digital identity, Rules as Code, and civic tech / gov tech.
📍NYC
FPL Gary @fplgary.bsky.social Old guy doing Tech & Service Design stuff in Local Gov
#LFC #F1 #Vinyl #FPL #SerieAFantasy #UCLFantasy
Service Design Academy @learnwithsda.scot Flexible, accredited training in service design. Accredited by Service Design Network.
Design Week @designweek.co.uk The UK's first design magazine. Bringing you the latest design news, inspiration and analysis since 1986.
https://www.designweek.co.uk/
James Reece @jamreece.bsky.social UX Design Lead @ Kaluza
Service Design Bristol meetup co-organiser.
People, planet, design, and technology
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
@transformgovtalks.bsky.social @transformgovtalks.bsky.social 
James Royal-Lawson @beantin.net Senior digital advisor · #UX Designer/researcher · Web analyst · Economist · Podcaster.
https://uxpodcast.com host.
Baker of cakes.
Founder of https://beantin.net
Stockholm, Sweden 🇸🇪
York, UK 🇬🇧 
Jonny Gios LRPS @supergios.bsky.social Photographer passionate about storytelling and community, landscapes, wildlife & nature around the Lake District | MCFC | jgios.com | BBC weather watcher
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
Fiona Tribe @fionatribe.bsky.social Cultural Anthropologist | Workplace Strategist | Ethnographer | Clay Artist | into architecture, cultural literacy and Stuff | Wurundjeri land/Melbourne | fiona@whiteowl.net.au | No DMs | whiteowl.net.au
Richard Wells @slipperyjack.bsky.social Sometimes I do graphic design stuff for telly and film. Other times I make spooky lino prints and things you can buy if you want...
📍Black Country (middle of the UK)
https://linktr.ee/SlipperyJack
UK Gov Camp @ukgovcamp.com Unconferences and support for people interested in making the public sector better. https://www.ukgovcamp.com/
Jonathan @digitaljonathan.bsky.social Business Owner | Parent | Digital Workplace Expert | Bristol UK | Charity Chair
Co-Founder Lithos Partners
Amy Mitchell @amycmitchell.bsky.social Product manager and author of Product Management IRL
https://amycmitchell.substack.com/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/amycmitchell/
Charlie Westney @charliewestney.bsky.social Climate, environment, behaviour change and communication. Cumbria, UK.
Comms lead for Small World Consulting @smallworldconsult.bsky.social
Kendal Green Party member 💚
Ashley Rolfmore (she/her) @ashley.rolfmore.com I help software teams navigate capitalism & ensure both sides eat their greens. Regulated sectors specialist. 🇬🇧➡️🇵🇹🇪🇺 Personal/nerd account.
Dawn Xiana Moon @dawnxianamoon.bsky.social Founder/director of @RaksGeek.bsky.social. Dancer + singer-songwriter. SF/F essays. Food. Spins fire. Britain's Got Talent.
Civic tech & UX by day, art by night.
Building shared versions of reality + hope.
RaksGeek.com
RaksInferno.com
DawnXianaMoon.com
Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social Author of award-winning bestseller An Irish Atlantic Rainforest. Over 17 years rewilding our 73-acre farm on the Beara Peninsula, West Cork. In love with Earth's biosphere.
World Bollard Association™️ @worldbollardassoc.bsky.social The official Bluesky account of the World Bollard Association™️. MERCH STORE - https://worldbollardassociation.team-togs.com/shop/storeorderform.php
Mauricio Angulo @mauricioangulo.bsky.social User experience and product designer. Wisenheimer. Bass player. Astronomer. Blogger & Podcaster. Mostly harmless. I ♥️ 📚.
Reworked @reworked.bsky.social The leading community of employee experience and digital workplace practitioners. Sister pub to CMSWire (customer experience) and VKTR (enterprise AI). Get your free membership: https://www.reworked.co/membership/join-us/
Pixel Pioneers @pixelpioneers.co Conferences, workshops, and advice for a better web. Organised by @oliverlindberg.com. We'll return to Bristol in June 2027 for our 10-year anniversary!
https://pixelpioneers.co/
Andy Robinson @andycayenne.bsky.social Recovering doer of digital things. Mediocre player of multiple musical instruments.
Monteiro @monteiro.bsky.social I paint. I used to do other things. I might do them again. He/him. Protect trans kids!
“One of our generation's most moving writers.” —some Bsky rando
Sam Rivera @sam-rivera.bsky.social ui/ux designer. obsessed with clean interfaces and creative coding
Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app Personal Account
Author: Deep Unlearning (you can now preorder at https://shorturl.at/sCdjl)
Founder: The Distributed AI Research Institute (https://dair-institute.org)
Ally Wilkes / AV Wilkes @unheimlichmanvr.bsky.social Stoker Award-nominated horror author.
rep: Oli Munson
she/they, bi, polyam, vegan, a bit witchy, very crafty
Trans rights are human rights
End the genocide in Gaza 🍉
Posting from Greenwich, London
www.allywilkes.com
Watershed @wshed.bsky.social Cultural cinema, talent development and creative technology in Bristol.
Supported using public funding by Arts Council England.
echesters @echesters.bsky.social Senior UX Designer empowering the aviation industry with AI
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
Harry Bailey @harrybailey.com I increase organisations’ capacity to think clearly, make better decisions and create more value.
Ex-agency founder. Dad. Mancunian 🐝
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/harrybailey
PD 🍉 @palakd.bsky.social hybrid designer+researcher working with #systems & #futures. Trying to figure out renewables at an energy company. atm, ai risk, disaster mitigation.
🏳️🌈 😷 clean air advocate; board: systemic design association, prev fjord, aho_oslo.
Dominika Noworolska @dominikanow.bsky.social Researcher, facilitator & cultural strategist passionate about social causes and meaningful change. I work across systemic boundaries whenever possible to build bridges, nurture relationships, and aim for better outcomes for people. Glasgow based
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.
Dan Barrett @dasbarrett.bsky.social Hello friend it’s sandwiches alright 🥪 Also baking, learning to make guitar effects pedals, shrine to The Incredible Hulk like a normal person, houseplants, and data and AI at Citizens Advice 📊 🤖
He / Him
Adam Coulson @coulson.bsky.social Product and user centred design at Research Data Scotland. #Weeknotes at https://medium.com/@adam.coulson
dot Black @wedge.black Reticulating splines
Dave Burton @ideasintheround.bsky.social Product person in central government, and part of OneTeamGov.
Co-founded Glean, a design agency for international development.
Manchester now, previously Birmingham, Dhaka and Phnom Penh. Good people doing good work together is my jam.
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.
Emma Maree @emaree.bsky.social Tea Demon Emma ☕ #a11y accessibility specialist. Writes very Scottish sci-fi/fantasy books, repped by @johnj, Codexian. She/her🏳️🌈 #LGBWithTheT // www.emmamaree.com
Sarah K @dr-know.bsky.social Researcher in digital, recovering academic. Data feminist.
On about games, books, cats, telly.
Always #LWithTheT
She/her
Lisa Riemers @lisariemers.bsky.social User-centred accessible content design, communications, community, intranet and digital workplace shenanigans. Bringing people together in pubs in SE London #ItsPubOClock. Artist who frequents the London Colour Walk.
Sharon O'Dea @sharonodea.com Consulting, writing and speaking on comms, collaboration & future of work. Cofounder, Lithos Partners. Author, Digital Communications at Work. Gym bore. Gets about a bit.
DigitalService des Bundes @digitalservice.bund.de Als Bundes-GmbH entwickeln wir nutzerzentrierte digitale Services. Unser Ziel: messbar die Interaktion der Bürger:innen mit dem Staat verbessern. Mehr Informationen: https://digitalservice.bund.de/
SDinGov @sdingov.bsky.social 11 March 2026 | Virtual, online | virtual.sdingov.net
23-25 September 2026 | Edinburgh | sdingov.net
The original international community event for anyone involved in designing and commissioning public services.
Rhianna Pratchett @rhi.bsky.social Writer of games, books, TV, film and comics. Co-Director of Narrativia. Cat Spooner. Flibbertigibbet. https://rhiannapratchett.com
Max Slinger @promptslinger.bsky.social I write one prompt. Whole galaxies fall out.
Bridging the gap between prompts and real work.
AI Educator. Absurdist. Builder.
Stick around, I'll teach you.
Simone W. @simonewunderlich.bsky.social Künstlerin
Sozialpädagogin
Demokratin
Europäerin
Friend of Bill.W.
Grenzgängerin
medievalmvb @medievalmvb.bsky.social cognitive medievalist (researching climate in medieval literature) | working remotely at Durham University, UK | lost decade at The SunBreak & Seattlest | outdoor photographer see https://mikevanbaker.myportfolio.com/work
The School of Good Services @theschoolofgood.bsky.social We help organisations get better at designing and delivering services that work for their users
Run by Sarah Drummond and Lou Downe
good.services
Tim Berners-Lee @timbl.bsky.social Inventor of WWW
Co-founder & CTO Inrupt.com | Lead, Solidproject.org
Co-founder WebFoundation.org & theODI.org
Founder w3.org
My memoir ‘This is for Everyone’ https://thisisforeveryone.timbl.com/
Follow me on Mastodon https://w3c.social/@timbl
Adrian Howard @adrianhoward.com Drinks less coffee than people expect. Enjoys helping people solve problems in the messy cross-disciplinary spaces where strategy, research, & delivery overlap. Does coaching with senior practitioners & leaders.
adrianhoward.com | quietstars.com/coaching
ISS Piss Tracker @iss-piss-tracker.bsky.social Tracks the level of the piss tank on the International Space Station in real time.
Not affiliated with NASA.
Please don't follow me unless you want your feed filled with percentage changes. (It is not as fun as it sounds)
FAQ thread is pinned.
Mark Vanderbeeken @vanderbeeken.app.leafplaza.eu International customer insight, market research and digital innovation expert. And some more.
vanderbeeken.eu
All posts are personal.
Tom Calver @tomcalver.bsky.social Data Editor, @thetimes.com
🇬🇧 How is Britain doing? 👉 thetimes.com/data
🔗 https://www.thetimes.com/profile/tom-calver
📧 thomas.calver@the-times.co.uk
Ty Hatch @tyhatch.com UX Leader & Doodler | Solving gnarly business problems | Simplifying complexity | Driving impact through strategic design | @tyhatch on most socials
Alex Karp (not the CEO) @autistic.af Sr. Engineering Manager at Slack. Profoundly autistic. Classically-trained pianist, public speaker, avid swing dancer, YA fantasy fiction lover, and a whisky enthusiast. Occasionally funny, usually by accident. More scared of you than you are of me.
Ruth Malan @ruthmalan.bsky.social Systems. Design.
she/her
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
Dan Hon @danhon.com Hi, it's me, I'm the problem etc etc
me: about.danhon.com
work: verylittlegravitas.com/
show: verylittlegravitas.com/how-people-work/live
newsletter: thingsthatcaughtmyattention.com
i made: donotreply.cards
DM or Signal danhon.1701
dorian @doriantaylor.com make things. make sense.
• methodandstructure.com
• doriantaylor.com
• senseatlas.net
• intertwingler.net
• the.natureof.software
• mastodon.social/@doriantaylor
• youtube.com/@methodandstructure
• buttondown.email/dorian
温哥华🇨🇦多伦多
Ray Newman @raynewman.bsky.social He/him. Bristol. Writer, content designer. No alt text = no repost. Not here for politics. Linktree: https://linktr.ee/raynewman Header: Thin Places in Hard Concrete https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DC5PL7T4 Agent: https://blakefriedmann.co.uk/ray-newman
Nia Campbell @niacampbell.bsky.social Work: NHS Wales App. Member: @transform.wales
Eternal optimist. Goofball. Cymraes. She/her.
Check your boobs. Views mine.
https://medium.com/@niacampbell
Adrián Ortega 🗺️🧭 @adrianortega.bsky.social Existential holistic detective 🇪🇸
User-centred Design @ Digital Public Services Wales (DPSW) 🏴
Views my own, and all that.
www.adrianortega.co.uk
Larry Swanson @larry.bsky.social community ecosystem development | knowledge graphs | ontology design | information architecture | practice cultivation
Coco @cocochan.bsky.social Product lead in UK gov. Principal percussionist of The Flowers Band (European Champions ‘26). Prolific knitter. She/her
Emma Chittenden @emmachittenden.com Taxonomist | Ontologist | Systems thinker | Polymath | Nerd | Mother of dog and cat | Feminist | www.murmuration.uk
Jukesie @jukes.ie Bristolian | internet of public service person | comic book collector | street art seeker | Adidas obsessive | 50s | UK
https://jukes.ie
Dr AbsP @absp.bsky.social Former academic, current UX research lead focused on how people communicate online, forever a sociolinguist. Small and loud. She/her
Martin Jordan @martinjordan.com Making services work better for all people—Head of Design & User Research at the German govt’s Digital Service, previously Head of #ServiceDesign at the UK’s Government Digital Service, int’l #GovDesign community co-lead, 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 ally
martinjordan.com
Justin Joque @jjoque.bsky.social visualization librarian | philosophy, media, cyberwar, stats | Deconstruction Machines (UMN Press, 2018) | Revolutionary Mathematics: Artificial Intelligence, Statistics and the Logic of Capitalism (Verso, 2022) | my views are yours
Jack Garfinkel @curiousscutter.bsky.social Content design, dungarees, parenting, custard they/them
Tim McKenna @timmckenna.design At Work: Senior Director of Product Design. Professional stuff here: https://timmckenna.design/
At Home: TTRPG Games, Drums, Art. Talks about too many interests.
Personal Account / My Views
Noah Fang @kingofark.bsky.social noahfang.ca
ambigram.ca
Design practitioner, author and occasional speaker, working on design, strategy, and organizational transformation. Was creative director, UX/product manager, visual designer, editor, translator, programmer and more.
James Kelleher @jameskelleher.pilcrow.ie Art with machines; design at Publicis; enthusiastic cat herder.
www.pilcrow.ie
Ben Holliday @benholliday.com Design and digital transformation | Chief Design Officer at TPXimpact | UK Lake District
Karen McGrane @karenmcgrane.bsky.social On a good day, I make the web more awesome. On a bad day, I just make it suck less.