Clearleft @clearleft.com We are Clearleft – strategic design partners.
https://clearleft.com/
Proud to be #EmployeeOwned 🫶 Also, proudly responsible for
https://uxlondon.com and https://leadingdesign.com/
Benjamin P Taylor @antlerboy.com systems | cybernetics | complexity
public | service | transformation
business evolutionary | avid learner
#wordrotator #poastrationalist
https://chosen-path.org
connect at antlerboy.com
redquadrant.com
publicservicetransformation.org
skeeting personally
Michelle Pilling @michellepilling.bsky.social Senior appointments - NHS Chair, NED, ICB Chairs @NHSEngland -social justice - kindness - positivity - health inequalities - Own views
Andy Marsden @andymarsden.bsky.social Design for people and planet - with a heavy sway towards heat pumps and energy.
Nic Teeman @teeman.co.uk Former @Nic_Teeman on X
Delivery Lead at BJSS working on NHS Website and NHS App
Director at Connetix IT
Previously: Hippo Digital, Hackney Council and Agilisys
Policy Leeds @policyleeds.bsky.social Policy Leeds is the policy engagement hub for the University of Leeds, strengthening connections between researchers and policy actors.
policyleeds@leeds.ac.uk for all enquiries.
Benjamin Welby @bm.wel.by Following Jesus, husbanding and dadding, supporting #bcafc. Displaced Yorkshireman in Croydon. Governor @minsterinfants.bsky.social. Digital government, public service, hope. TBI; formerly DWP, NHS, GDS, OECD. These views are mine.
https://bm.wel.by/
Dafydd Vaughan @daivaughan.uk Geek. Cymru. Digital technology specialist. Consulting Practice CTO at Public Digital. Independent Member for Digital at Aneurin Bevan University Health Board. Co-founder of GDS. Views my own.
Dave Briggs @da.vebrig.gs Local government loving digital pragmatist.
https://da.vebrig.gs/
Ben Unsworth @benunsworth.co.uk User centred design in government. parkrun tourist A4418. Director of Digital and Tech for Kingston and Sutton councils.
Steve O'Connor @steveoconnor.bsky.social Senior UX Consultant at Version 1, Director of CamCreatives CIC in Cambridge, UK, currently working with DfE
Neurospicy with neurospicy kids. Yikes.
Big heart, bad memory.
Rob Whiting 📓 @whitingx.bsky.social #Research & #Design at @merlan.bsky.social ⟹ Narrow of purpose, wide of vision. ツ
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
Gavin @gavinbeckett.bsky.social Director at Public Digital, supporting organisations through radical transformation. Spent 20+ year in UK LocalGov, and 6 years at Placecube working with councils to co-design and develop an open source SaaS digital platform.
Matt Harrington @mattharrington.bsky.social Director at Public Digital. Ex GDS, Dept of Health, NHS Digital, Doctorlink and accuRx
Vicky Lawson @viclaw.bsky.social Inclusivity through content design, digital inclusion and... y'know, life.
Current GOV.UK, ex Good Things Foundation.
she/her
Chris Fleming @e17chrisfleming.bsky.social Partner and healthcare lead @publicdigital.bsky.social Walthamstow via Durham.
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
Eliot Fineberg @eliotf.bsky.social Co-founder of https://www.ff.studio/
I find LinkedIn a bit inhumane, so lets try this place. All my thinking out loud is my own.
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
Nick Gates @nckgts.bsky.social Digital government and open source policy/research. Senior Policy Advisor at at OpenForum Europe. Formerly with Public Digital and the Digital Impact Alliance. You can also ask me about coffee, bagels, improv, films, books and travel! Views my own.
Linda Humphries @lindah.bsky.social Digital strategy delivery, open standards, open data, responsible tech.
Was moominlounge in the other place 🐦
Pic credit: Adam Tinworth @odcamp
Public Digital director
Open Data Manchester CIC chair
360Giving Trustee and standard committee member
Francis Bacon @andeggs.bsky.social Consultant at Public Digital. Interested in technology, innovation, science, society, better government, better charities.
John Fitzgerald @johnfitzg.bsky.social digital evolution • charities • change • digital strategy • tech for good • fixing the plumbing • responsible AI • Scotland • feed may contain bikes and sailing
Sophie Dennis @sophiedennis.bsky.social Head of User-Centred Design & Product @MadeTech. ex @ukhsa @nhsdigital @cxpartners @dwpdigital. Devon exile in Yorkshire. #sophiesthatux she/her
Andrew Greenway @andrewgreenway.bsky.social Founder, Public Digital. Co-author of Bluffocracy. Still Countdown's most rubbish champion.
Ben Holliday @benholliday.com Design and digital transformation | Chief Design Officer at TPXimpact | UK Lake District
Diane Coyle @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social Bennett Professor of Public Policy, University of Cambridge; economist
William Perrin @willperrin.bsky.social Trustee at Indigo Trust. Formerly CarnegieUK, Good Things Foundation, TPW, UK Civil Service (No10, Cabinet Office, DtI, DCMS). Defence, tech, online safety, rural, tractors, cats etc.
Neil Lawrence @ox1digital.co.uk Former Product Manager / localgov survivor / LocalGovDigital alumni / All my views / Stupidly excited by default / European citizen and French resident / passionate about not using the word “passionate”
Philippa @philippanewis.bsky.social Director at Public Digital.
Trilly C @trillyc.bsky.social Head of Product Management @nhsengland. Audiophile. Serial hobbyist.
Liam Hawkes @liamhawkes.bsky.social Principal Service Designer in CoLab - the Policy and Innovation Lab at the Home Office. Previously #localgov.
Helen @socialsoup.bsky.social Designer in UK Gov. Made in State School. Haway man, woman man.
Esteban Olmedo @estebano.bsky.social Service & Product Design, Gov, Husband, Dad, Montessorian, Scout-Leader, Londoner from Ecuador, Dyslexic, He/Him.
Sorry, I don't check direct messages.
www.enablingfacilities.co.uk
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
Hattie Kennedy @hattiek.bsky.social Chief Data Officer at MHCLG, sometimes comics.
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.
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
Nathan Davies @nathandavies.bsky.social Thinking about the past and future of digital government @ oxford internet institute
Based at Harvard as an STS fellow 2025-26
Imogen levy @teppie.bsky.social Head of Product @NHSEngland. Passionate about designing and building stuff for people. All views my own. Plus OOUX strategist, printmaker, live kidney donor
Ross Ferg @rossferg.bsky.social Technology in the service of people. Director with Public Digital.
Terry Makewell @terrymakewell.com Gov CDTO | Evelyn Glennie Foundation Trustee | Prev Gov CTO, CDO & NHS | Accessibility | Ménière's disease
Exeter, Devon
Ben Terrett @benterrett.bsky.social CEO of Public Digital. Former Deputy Chair of UAL. .
/benterrett everywhere else.
www.benterrett.com
Kuba Bartwicki @kubabartwicki.bsky.social designing on gov.uk · writing on kubabartwicki.com
Rochelle Gold @rochellegold.bsky.social Head of User Research @NHSEngland
(formerly @NHSDigital) and Head of UCD for Digital Primary Care. Cancer and genetics awareness advocate and patient representative..
Views my own.
She/her.
Jenni Parker @jenniparker.bsky.social Designer and social innovator passionate about social impact. Founder and Director of Humanly. she/her 🏳️🌈
Wendy Coello @wendycoello.bsky.social Director at dxw. Most things public sector digital and comms. Sheffielder.
Lauren Abraham @laurenabraham.bsky.social Doing service design type things in the public sector rodeo 🤠
Shaun @sconner.net
Kathryn Grace 🕊️ @iamkathryngrace.bsky.social Design Leader:
Service & Systems Design
Keeping digital health and care human and joining it up
Beth Walton @bethgracewalton.bsky.social Lead content designer at TPXimpact. Lurking to read government digital and design stuff.
Neil Major @neilmajor.bsky.social User Research. GDS. Design. Strategy. 117th UK person on Twitter. In Glasgow. Sometimes.
Also here.
https://www.last.fm/user/treblekicker
Jen Oliver @jenoli.bsky.social Delivery lead at Justice Digital
Pete @peterthomas.bsky.social Working to improve public services in Wales, convinced that focusing on digital capabilities is the way to do it.
Everything in Moderation @eimdotco.bsky.social About the policies, products, platforms and people shaping content moderation, now and in the future.
Weekly newsletter every Friday. Subscribe at everythinginmoderation.co
jennyvass.bsky.social @jennyvass.bsky.social Day job: community building and leadership training for the CEOs of the public sector
Solo mum by choice - so basically never sleeps
Sticker shop https://shepersistedstudio.etsy.com
Sam Dub @samdub.bsky.social Head of Product, GOV.UK AI
Giuseppe Sollazzo @puntofisso.bsky.social Deputy Director, Chief AI Office @ HM Revenue & Customs + Quantum of Sollazzo data newsletter
www.puntofisso.net
www.quantumofsollazzo.com
Stephen Morris @sfmorris.mindspikes.com Digital chap at work, Daddy at home. ECFC fan, Bromley resident. Android user, Volvo driver. Coffee drinker, trainee watch nerd. Views expressed own.
Helen Mott @mottlehen.bsky.social Humans. Digital. Data. Government nerd. Creating space for talented curious teams to do their best work. Mum of boys.
Clive Richardson @clvrchrdsn.bsky.social Tech policy. Lurking at the back. Ex-GDS, ex-NHSX.
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.
Laura Dee @lauradee.bsky.social Associate Prof at University of Colorado. I study the effects of climate change on ecosystems and people. Interested in how to effectively design and evaluate nature based solutions, evidence, and strategies for climate adaptation and conservation. She/her
Graham Francis @gkfrancis.bsky.social Digital identity policy lead, DSIT
Peter Jordan @peterbjordan.bsky.social Walking, meditation, transport, geography.
Digital professional. Product mgmt, digital analysis, findability, search, content strategy.
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.
Darwin Peltan @darwinp.bsky.social Public sector Product and Delivery person, Husband, Dad and Hot Air Balloon Pilot
SJMace @sjmace.bsky.social Strategic design.
Next for Nonprofits @handle.invalid Ideas and insights for changemakers around the world
www.nextfornonprofits.com
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
Heidi @heidi2o.bsky.social data, policy, and feelings
hobby collector
Nick Kimber @nick80.bsky.social Director of Public Service Reform at Cabinet Office. Seconded from Camden Council. Was a Policy Fellow at IIPP @ UCL; Policy Associate at Future Governance Forum
Irina Pencheva @irinap.bsky.social Product and public sector tech geek. Mom of 2. Thrives being busy. Prevention at NHSE. Formerly of GOV.UK Notify and GOV.UK Forms at Government Digital Service
Stuart Chalmers @stu73.bsky.social From #Paisley. Living in #Brighton. Likes: #OpenData #Digital #Tech #metal #prog #country #punk #Ukulele & #StMirren. Views My Own.
Jess Figueras @jessfigueras.bsky.social Cybersecurity, data, risk & governance, civil society. Co-founder @ Cyber Governance for Boards (CxB). Governor @ University of Westminster
James M Watson @jamesmwatson.bsky.social Lead Service Designer at UK Home Office. Former Met Police and Nudge Unit. Yellerbelly 4eva.
Greg Knight @knightknightg.bsky.social Content design and strategy.
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
Chief Digital Officer for London @ldncdo.bsky.social Chief Digital Officer for London, working for Mayor of London and all Londoners. Using #data to support a fairer, safer and greener city for everyone #cities #innovation #smartcities https://medium.com/@chiefdigitalofficer4london
Mihai Chereji @cronco.bsky.social web developer, interests in policy, politics, economics. MPA @ UCL IIPP
Hackney Green Party candidate for Hoxton East and Shoreditch
Promoted by S Liberadzki on behalf of Mihai Chereji, at PO Box 78066, London SE16 9GQ
https://cronco.me
Polly Mackenzie @pollymackenzie.bsky.social Co-founder and CEO, Zinc Innovation Partners - helping turn science into real-world change. Fomerly Demos, UAL, MMHPI, No10. Adviser at Future Governance Forum, Family Business UK, Door10 Recruitment. Writes at https://howtorunacountry.substack.com/
Reza Schwitzer @schwitzer.bsky.social Principal Consultant at Avencera. Formerly AQA, DfE and Public First. Loud and sometimes prone to hyperbole. COYG! Views own
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
John Sheridan @johnlsheridan.bsky.social I’m a Civil Servant, with a keen interest in many things including computers, data, law, digital preservation and archives. You’ll find me at The National Archives, helping to look after the digital archive, web archive, legislation.gov.uk etc.
Tyler Gindraux 🌻 @tylergindraux.bsky.social I'm a researcher and designer of public services. I live in Brooklyn, NY.
Susanne Devlin @susannedevlin.bsky.social Experience Strategy & Service Design / ex-Fjord
Postgrad Researcher in AI Narratives @EdinUni
Work: www.susannedevlin.com
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
Phil Rumens @rumens.uk Principal Technologist for GDS Local. Part of @LocalGovDigital.
Advocate of technology enabled user centred design.
o7 CMDR
Sarah Lay @sarahlay.bsky.social Music writer. Record label owner. Novelist. And also Local Gov UX/Content Designer 💜
Elizabeth Buie, PhD FRSA @ebuie.bsky.social Principal UX Consultant @NexerDigital. Transcendent #UX. UU. Sing polyphony, speak Italian. Point out colour contrast issues. Writing a book. US/UK citizen; vote in MD & Cambs. DemsAbroad. She/her. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Elizabeth-Buie
Francesca Wood @francjwood.bsky.social Practical innovation specialist, creative collaboration, tri-sector connector. Fluent in Private, Public & Third Sector languages.
Leeds-based, but working with clients on a national, regional, city and hyper-local basis.
https://www.fwoodsolutions.co.uk/
Alasdair Hiscock @alasdair.co Design Lead at Nesta. Interested in mission oriented innovation, digital and policy design. Trying to make home decarbonisation happen
Derek Alton @derekalton.bsky.social Community Insights Lead for Apolitical by day, Civic Punk by night. Passionate about helping make government work better. Obsessed with all things digital/open government and Public Sector Reform. Community Insights Lead for Apolitical
Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social DEI hire. Prof of Primary Care, Uni of Oxford. Researching digital health/ inequities, covid prevention (masks/ air quality). Wild swimmer. Mum to Rob (marine bio) & Al (doc). She/her. https://scholar.google.com.au/citations?user=QDCqsJwAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
Nicola Fulton @nicolafulton.bsky.social Strategic engagement lead at www.genomicsengland.co.uk, on a secondment from www.ons.gov.uk. Ex-NHS England digital team.
Data, health, social care, autism, LD, caring, travel, gigs, coffee. A Scot who 💙s living in SE London.
David Eaves @eaves.ca Associate Prof & Deputy Co-Director at @iipp-ucl.bsky.social at UCL, Investment committee CoDevelop.fund, co-founder TeachingPublicService.digital.
Digital Government & Digital Public Infrastructure, ReCollect co-founder & CEO, Father, Negotiator & Learner
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