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 [โฆ]
[bridged from https://fedi.simonwillison.net/@simon on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
Alt18F @alt18f.bsky.social Delivered effective, efficient, and secure digital services for the American people until we were forced to stop on March 1, 2025. Not an official government account. Reposts are not endorsements. Our new website: https://18f.org/ #AltGov
World IA Day London ๐โโ๏ธ๐ฌ๐ง @wiad-london.bsky.social A free one-day conference on #InformationArchitecture.
๐ https://www.worldiaday.org/events/london/
#WIADLDN
CanUX @canuxconf.bsky.social Oct 1-4, 2025. 13th edition
https://canux.io
Chris Risdon @livebysatellite.bsky.social He/him. Designing for applied AI. Cowrote Orchestrating Experiences http://goo.gl/NMoGfH. Anti-Christian nationalist atheist, pro-LGBTQ+ father. History rabbit hole explorer. Hic manebimus optime.
Veronika Kindred @veronikakindred.bsky.social Designer, Researcher, & Author at Big Medium
Dave Hoffer @davehoffer.bsky.social 
Noreen Whysel @nwhysel.bsky.social Adjunct Professor, design strategist, researcher, gardener, Brooklynite.
Randy Au @randyau.com Hobby consultant, ๐๐ช๐ฎ๐ฅ๏ธ๐๏ธ๐น๐ง๐จโ๐ณ๐ท๐ชโ
Quant UX Researcher
Writes a data newsletter: https://www.counting-stuff.com/
https://linktr.ee/randy_au
Languages: EN/JP/CN
@understandinggroup.bsky.social @understandinggroup.bsky.social 
YoBurnett @yoburnett.bsky.social It's Melissa.
Stuart Maxwell @stumax.bsky.social Information architect, product manager, and student of sustainability. Also: Seattleite, Kraken fan, cat enthusiast, devoted husband, erstwhile board trodder, and sometime conference organizer.
Grace Lau @lauggh.bsky.social 
The Sensemakers Club @thesensemakersclub.bsky.social Curiosity leads to clarity. We host a small group discussion every weekday covering 20+ topics relating to sensemaking, design, content and data every month. Operated by Abby Covert.
Gina Mendolia @ginamendolia.bsky.social 
Laura Smith @losmith.bsky.social Designer | Researcher | Making sense of complex systems | Director of Unwaste.io, using data to tackle global plastic waste
Tom Gayler @tomgayler.bsky.social Designer. Experience and experiences in products and services.
Josh Clark @bigmediumjosh.bsky.social Big Medium founder, Sentient Design co-author, design leader (AI, design systems, mobile, web, IoT); Couch to 5K creator; Maine's 11th strongest man.
Chris Avore @erova.bsky.social Design leader, marathoner, author of Liftoff! (2020) & occasional conference speaker.
Had a ๐บ &๐๏ธโโ๏ธin every US state.
Fond of bulldogs, found in pastels.
LinkedIn.com/in/chrisavore | chris@avo.re
#ux
Angelica Quicksey @angelquicksey.bsky.social ๐พ Urban planner for the internet
โก๏ธ Managing Director @newpublic.org
๐ฒ Seattle is always home
Whitney Q @whitneyq.bsky.social Center for Civic Design. A Web for Everyone. plain language. storytelling. democracy
Emma Chittenden @emmachittenden.com Taxonomist | Ontologist | Systems thinker | Polymath | Nerd | Mother of dog and cat | Feminist | www.murmuration.uk
Nathan Shedroff @nathanshedroff.bsky.social Entrepreneur/consultant/author/professor of design/business/innovation/sustainability.
https://www.nathan.com & http://LinkedIn.com/in/nathanshedroff & http://YouTube.com/@toolsforthefutureX/videos
IAC - Information Architecture Conference @theiaconf.bsky.social Leading gathering for IAs, UXers, and Content Strategists since 2000 โข April 14th - 17th, 2027 in Philadelphia โข #IAC27 โข https://linktr.ee/theiaconf
Bruce Gillespie (he/him) @brucegillespie.com Journalism, UX, Higher Ed
www.brucegillespie.com
Vรญctor M. Gonzalez, Ph.D. @victor-m-gonzalez.bsky.social Innovation Strategist - Customer Experience expert - Founder of Sperientia Labs - Teacher
Juan Madrigal @juan-madrigal.bsky.social Multidisciplinary Design Director
IxD, UX, UXR & IA
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Special appreciation for Photography & outdoor activities
R.E. 2026 @aristiles.bsky.social ๐ Print Designer making tech books and other goodies for Smashing Magazine.
๐ฟ Yoga Teacher & Yoga Therapist in training.
๐ญ Overthinker. Klutzy. Caffeinated.
Peter Boersma @pboersma.bsky.social I am a designer of design organisations.
ex-AdaptivePath, ex-ServiceNow, ex-Miro.
Paolo Montevecchi @montevec.bsky.social Information Architect | Designer | Beekeeper
Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social Teaches US History at Willamette Univ. Working on a book about the long history of the US Right. https://rightlandia.ghost.io/
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
Andreas Resmini @resmini.bsky.social Mad professor. Information architect. Architect. Game maker. RnB pianist
Sara Asche Anderson @sjasche.bsky.social In my witch era
Zachary Sam Zaiss @zszaiss.bsky.social Data Science + Product Analytics. Believer in building Deliberate Data Cultures (deliberatedataculture.substack.com). All views my own.
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
Lou Downe @loudowne.bsky.social Founder of @theschoolofgood
Chief bean-wrangler @brodbox
Ex-Design Director of the UK Gov.
Proudly dyslexic & non-binary ๐ they/he
Bellingcat @bellingcat.com Bellingcat is a global collective uncovering facts to hold power to account. Our work is independent. Our methods are public. Our community is global.
Want to support our charity? bellingcat.com/donate
PQ @ptquattlebaum.bsky.social Service designer and founder at Harmonic Design. Formerly Managing Dir. at AdaptivePath. Co-author of #orchestratingexperiences https://goo.gl/SibBPN
Adam Cutler @adamhcutler.bsky.social Once I almost dropped Bruce Springsteen. I still like shark movies but fear they've stopped liking me. Baseball is life. Movies are also life. Go Phils. Go Birds. Go Steelers (i.e., go very far from your current starting QB). Don't comply in advance.
Mark Vanderbeeken @vanderbeeken.app.leafplaza.eu International customer insight, market research and digital innovation expert. And some more.
vanderbeeken.eu
All posts are personal.
John Maeda @johnmaeda.bsky.social Still going โฆ
Dan HIll @cityofsound.bsky.social Designer, urbanist &c. Director, Melbourne School of Design and Professor, University of Melbourne + Visiting Prof of Practice, UCL IIPP. Prev.: Vinnova (Swedish Gov innovation agency), Arup, Future Cities Catapult, SITRA (Finnish Innovation Fund), BBC
Arne van Oosterom @arnevanoosterom.bsky.social Creative Facilitator, Coach, Podcasters
Pete Kinser @petekinser.bsky.social What I believe should be irrelevant to anyone.
Aras Bilgen @arasb.bsky.social Design, product, food, electronic music, fountain pens, hak, hukuk, adalet.
Priyanka Kakar @pkspark.bsky.social Designer, Comic Book Lover, Language Enthusiast, Traveler/Culture Seeker. Currently at Bank of America. Opinions my own.
Rachael Dietkus @rdietkus.bsky.social care for the public / lifelong advocate / designer / social worker / organizational ecologist / space nerd / tech ethicist / founder of www.socialworkerswho.design
Richardson @richardsona.bsky.social 
Bruce Esrig @cayugan.bsky.social Will work for hope.
Bogdan Stanciu @bogzilla.bsky.social https://www.linkedin.com/in/stanciu
design and product for startups and nonprofits
gretared @gretared.bsky.social Indie designer, author, artist, I love music
Caro @splityarn.bsky.social Photographer, cocktail nerd, sewist, quilter, knitter. We live in an old church in Western Mass w/ 3 silly cats.
Austin Kleon @austinkleon.bsky.social Iโm a writer who draws. Author of STEAL LIKE AN ARTIST and other bestsellers. www.austinkleon.com
Oz Lubling @ozlubling.bsky.social Product Strategy, Design and Innovation. My newsletter is a good read
http://ozlubling.substack.com
Simon Wardley. @swardley.bsky.social Mapper. I like ducks, they're fowl but not through choice.
Nobuya Sato @nobsato.com Experience Design & Strategy / Design Systems / Future Strategy
Lefty Hand Cream / ใใณ & ๅฐ็ซฅ / ็งใใใจ / tuki.(17)๐
Michele Tepper @michelet.bsky.social Also known as Misha. UX design leader (frog, CFPB, startups, Salesforce), currently on sabbatical. Brooklyn native/clichรฉ. A vague disclaimer is nobodyโs friend
zeynep tufekci @zey.bsky.social It is said that there may be seeming disorder and yet no real disorder at all
@nathangao.bsky.social @nathangao.bsky.social What even is this place?
Naa Marteki Reed ๐๐พ ๐ @marteki.bsky.social Two-word first name! Contract SLED accessibility/web design. Former: CFPB, Treasury. Philly born, NJ kid, Chicagoland mom, cat servant. She/her, bi/omni. ๐ฌ๐ญ๐บ๐ธ
Profile pic: Black woman in yellow blouse with glasses & long dark brown locs
Noah Iliinsky @noah-i.bsky.social UX, visualization, & info designer, IA. Climate hawk. Feminist, anti-racist SJW. Practical cyclist. Vis books author & editor, speaker. Will block fascists. he/him
Jess Vice @justjessvice.bsky.social fiction snob, whiskey fan, herbalist and bug nerd. dogs.
UX Researcher & Strategist for money. Opinions for free.
Virginia | they/them ๐ณ๏ธโ๐
James Spahr @jspahr.bsky.social UX Designer. Runner. Dogs.
Whitney Hess @whitneyhess.bsky.social I am a coach, writer, and UX designer on a mission to put humanity back into business. I believe empathy builds empires. (She/her) #blacklivesmatter #resist โก๏ธ
Emma Boulton @emmaboulton.bsky.social UX Research Leader. 
Dan Newman @dannewman.bsky.social DC-based design leader at Google (previously at NPR & Wolfram|Alpha). Dad, traveler, urbanist, F1 fan, theater nerd. he/him.
Also on Threads/Instagram (threads.net/@CreativeNewman) and Mastodon (mas.to/@creativenewman)
Rosenfeld Media @rosenfeldmedia.com Helping you design great experiences with thoughtfully curated UX resources, featuring the experts driving the industry forward.
Tony Byrne @tonybyrne.bsky.social Sewer socialist. Rooted cosmopolitan. Marketing Tech opinionator. Born at 322ppm. MKE -> YYZ -> DCA -> BWI - he/him
Matthew Marco @matthewmarco.bsky.social www.mmar.co
Mudassir @azeemi.bsky.social 
Kevin Bethune @kevinbethune.com Best-selling Author, Reimagining Design + Nonlinear (The MIT Press) | dreams โข design + life | Television Presenter, America ByDesign | The Curious 100 Honoree - The Eames Institute
www.kevinbethune.com
Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social I write Popular Information, an independent newsletter dedicated to accountability journalism. | judd@popular.info | Signal: juddlegum.47
Popular.info
Andrea Mignolo @pnts.bsky.social Fuck fascism.
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Dave Cronin @davcron.bsky.social Dad, runner, cyclist, music- and book-lover, UX at Google
Randall Munroe @xkcd.com 
Casey Gollan @caseyagollan.com https://caseyagollan.com โข https://cag.wiki โข https://social.coop/@caseyg (formerly at https://twitter.com/caseyg before the implosion)
Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social Historian. Author. Professor. Budding Curmudgeon. I study the contrast between image and reality in America, especially in politics.
Birgit Geiberger @birgitgcom.bsky.social Global Head of Product UX Design - @IKEA /// Founder Curious Bridges /// Formerly @adidas /// Alumna Board of Directors @IxDA
Alexis Lloyd ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ @alexislloyd.bsky.social Ethical design, weird machines, native Brooklynite. Designing at Google, alum of NY Times, Axios, Medium. She/her
Instigation Architect @gregrichardsnyc.bsky.social An experience will happen whether it's designed or not. I work in the pixel mines. Anti-fascist and anti-forced birth. Art-punk-glam-slacker-pop. Blocks AI images.
Everything bagels are the ones that fell on the floor. Deep Dish pizza is casserole.
Tomer Sharon @tsharon.bsky.social Co-founder & CEO at UX+, the 1st-ever UX streaming service with exclusive, high-quality content. Author of Validating Product Ideas, It's Our Research, & Measuring User Happiness. Ex-Google, WeWork, & Goldman Sachs. 2โ&โ
http://www.leanresearch.co/services
UXLx: User Experience Lisbon @uxlx.bsky.social Amazing User Experience Conference in Europe, connecting UX Pros for the best training. Set for 12 to 15 May 2026 ๐ Produced by Xperienz since 2008.
Matt Bernius @mattbernius.bsky.social Qualitative Researcher at Code for America, former Measures For Justice. Accidental union organizer, trauma responsive thinker, participatory action research facilitator, civic design/tech, martial arts (BJJ, FMA, CMA), and more.
He/they.
Robert Stribley @stribs.bsky.social UXer + Educator + Author + Photographer. Australian + American.
UX: thisistechnique.com. Teach: SVA. Author: Design for Privacy (Rosenfeld Media). Interests: UX, digital/human rights, immigration, journalism, misinformation, privacy by design. Brooklyn.
James Royal-Lawson @beantin.net Senior digital advisor ยท #UX Designer/researcher ยท Web analyst ยท Economist ยท Podcaster.
https://uxpodcast.com host.
Baker of cakes.
Founder of https://beantin.net
Stockholm, Sweden ๐ธ๐ช
York, UK ๐ฌ๐ง 
Deb Aoki @debaoki.bsky.social Manga addict, journalist & traveler. Posts are 75% comix stuff. 1/4 of the Mangasplaining podcast & manga & webtoons go-to gal at Comics Beat, K-Comics Beat & Publishers Weekly | debaoki.com
@endashes.bsky.social @endashes.bsky.social UX Designer in Brooklyn who digs skateboarding, music, design, & culture. Iโm in Van Halen because Iโm like this. Now go start your own band!
Jรถrg Linder @japhy.bsky.social UX Designer / bass player / runner. Vienna/Austria.
Sarah Barrett @documentalope.bsky.social Director, Special Projects for the State of Eternity.
IA, Systems thinking, product management
She/her
sarahrbarrett.com
James Mayes @jamesmayes.bsky.social I do stuff with events, community, product.
Author: https://amzn.eu/d/bQGmUNK
LI: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jmayes
Last gig: Co-founder & CEO Mind The Product. Next is Rodeo. ๐ค 
Dan Lockton @danlockton.com Utrecht, NL + Norwich, UK
Prof of Design & Imagination, Norwich University of the Arts โฆฟ Director, Institute for Sustainable Worlds https://sustainableworlds.org.uk โฆฟ Designโธปimaginationโธปclimateโธปfutures โฆฟ http://imaginari.es โฆฟ he/him โฆฟ Not employer's views
Kate Towsey @katetowsey.bsky.social ResearchOps guru. Author of "Research That Scales: The ResearchOps Handbook" (Rosenfeld, 2024). Founder of the Cha Cha Clubโa members' club for ResearchOps professionals.
Amy Bucher @amybphd.bsky.social Applied behavioral scientist working in digital health, cat lady, not giving up
Larry Asher @larryasher.bsky.social 
Andrew Mayfield @andrewmayfield.com Getting the right things done.
Building. Creating. Living.
andrewmayfield.com
#NewZealand
corneliux @corneliux.bsky.social Systemic service designer. Bit of a troublemaker. Mars Rover. Wanderer. Nomad. Scubaroo. Co-founder & Chair of @CanUXconf