Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social "if that's the strangest thing you ever seen in your life, I'd say you haven't done much"
Local Government Studies @lgstudies.bsky.social First established in 1975, Local Government Studies is the leading journal for the study of local politics, policy, public administration and management and governance https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/flgs20
Centre for Digital Public Services @cdps.bsky.social Canolfan Gwasanaethau Cyhoeddus Digidol - building better public services for Wales ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ท๓ ฌ๓ ณ๓ ฟ
www.gwasanaethaucyhoeddusdigidol.llyw.cymru
www.digitalpublicservices.gov.wales 
Large Heydon Collider @heydonworks.com Doing things with web technologies and writing/talking about it. Author of Inclusive Components (https://book.inclusive-components.design/) and producer of Webbed Briefs (https://briefs.video/). Agender. (Avatar by Cole Henley)
fesshole ๐งป @fesshole.bsky.social Confess your sins anonymously - will the internet absolve you?
Buy show tickets 2025/6: sites.google.com/view/fesshole
Add confession b3ta.com/addfess
Buy book amazon.co.uk/s?k=very+best+of+fesshole&tag=b3ta-21
Run @robmanuel.b3ta.com
Anna Scott-Trimble @anna-scott.bsky.social UCD, content and brand strategy. Digital rights, civic tech. Current: content design and digital transformation at Defra/GOV.UK. mySociety trustee. SocietyWorks NED. Ex ODI, Guardian. I like making bleepy music.
Duncan Brown @duncanjbrown.com I make software. i.AI, NHS, DfE
https://mechanicalsurvival.com
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)
Massage Gun Kelly @martyn.blog Martyn. Digital swiss army knife. Puts the 'ux' in 'deluxe'. Today is anything can happen day: https://youtube.com/watch?v=06RgMvqvZg4
Continuity Pato Canton @patocanton.bsky.social We don't go far but we have a laugh!
https://linktr.ee/patocanton
XBOX @xbox.com Gaming since 2001
Terry Makewell @terrymakewell.com Gov CDTO | Evelyn Glennie Foundation Trustee | Prev Gov CTO, CDO & NHS | Accessibility | Mรฉniรจre's disease
Exeter, Devon
Gill Kirk @gillkirk.bsky.social A constellation: pol comms strategist (restricted), playwright/screenwriter & tutor, media law & Norsk student, on/off French horn player & proud Glaswegian. Ex SW1, now Trumpton (Bath). All fab. www.gillkirk.com
Jason Kitcat @jasonkitcat.bsky.social Director of Digital, Data & Technology at UKโs Dept for Business & Trade ๐ / โค๏ธ public service / All views my own! ๐ข / https://jasonkitcat.com
CAST - Centre for the Acceleration of Social Technology @techforgoodcast.bsky.social UK charity. Providing free courses, resources and networking opportunities to help charities and social impact organisations harness the full power of digital and AI. Also working with funders to create an environment of support. See www.wearecast.org.uk.
Ann Kempster @annkempster.com Public sector agitator for good. Co-author @transform.wales
Feminist. Cheese. Dachshunds.
Digital. ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ท๓ ฌ๓ ณ๓ ฟ
She/her.
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.
Gavin Freeguard @gavinfreeguard.com Data/govt etc freelancer gavinfreeguard.com
Starting @sotf.org.uk
@connectedbydata.org, Data Bites, @instituteforgovernment.org.uk @thinkdigitalptns.bsky.social @kinship.works @transformgovtalks.bsky.social @policycamp.bsky.social
Pic @paulclarke.com
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/
James Marwood @marwoodchap.bsky.social Head of Transformation for BetterGov (views my own)
Public Sector Transformation | Digitally-enabled Change | Delivery Excellence
Durham/London
He/Him
BetterGov.co.uk | speakingsoftly.com
Chris Coyier @chriscoyier.net The main thing = @codepen.io
Personal site = https://chriscoyier.net
Podcast = https://shoptalkshow.com
Bend, Oregon
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.
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.
Chris @songschris.bsky.social Service designer, consultant, songwriter, fairly nerdy.
Tom Warren @tomwarren.co.uk Senior Correspondent @theverge.com โ Sign up to Notepad, my weekly newsletter on Microsoft's big bets at http://theverge.com/notepad โ Tips? msg me on Signal: tomwarren.01
Paul Maltby @maltbyps.bsky.social I run the public service teams at Faculty AI. Previously Chief Digital Officer in UK gov. Public service reformer 
Owen Boswarva @owenboswarva.bsky.social A mix of stuff: mainly #opendata, #FOI, #dataprotection, #geospatial, #openweb, #genAI, #techpolicy. Half-formed thoughts posted for my own amusement. Still on X/Twitter at @owenboswarva. Sites www.owenboswarva.com (with blog) + www.datadaptive.com. He/him
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.
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
Lauren Pope @lapope.bsky.social Content strategy and content design for charities and arts orgs. Also: Brighton, plants, my dog, typos.
Wendy Coello @wendycoello.bsky.social Director at dxw. Most things public sector digital and comms. Sheffielder.
Priyanca a11y ๐ @priyanca.bsky.social Accessibility, inclusive design research #A11y #UX
Loves swimming in nature, rocks in rivers, mint tea, gelato, trees. Art, music, play!
Grew up in the West Country, left to explore cognition & behaviour, returned ND ๐ she
John Sheridan @johnlsheridan.bsky.social Iโm a Civil Servant, with a keen interest in many things including computers, data, law, digital preservation and archives. Youโll find me at The National Archives, helping to look after the digital archive, web archive, legislation.gov.uk etc.
Rob Cawston @cawston.bsky.social Design | Content | Data | Culture | Thoughts
Cambridge United fan ๐ซ Views my own.
Craig Barker @craigjbarker.bsky.social Local Gov digital leader, service designer, passion for UX, low code, low carbon, micro adventures and kindness.
William Roissetter @rossi0.bsky.social Helping build services, mostly public, mostly health
Chai Patel @chaipatel.net Migration, human rights, public law. He/him.
Nic Ward @nicward.bsky.social Service designer @ Public Digital + bicyclist
Bernie Martin @berniebird.bsky.social Service designer and UCD practitioner some of the time. Busy being a Mum, weaver, runner and curious being; the rest of the time!
UK Gov Camp @ukgovcamp.com Unconferences and support for people interested in making the public sector better. https://www.ukgovcamp.com/
James Green @jamesgreen.bsky.social Content Designer in local government.
Interested in digital accessibility.
Like music, books, food, running, cats and shenanigans.
he / him
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
Dean Vipond @deanvipond.bsky.social Design leadership and human-centred stuff in general. Previously lead designer at NHS Digital and lots of other things. He/Him.
Ben Holliday @benholliday.com Design and digital transformation | Chief Design Officer at TPXimpact | UK Lake District
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
Ed Horsford @edwardhorsford.bsky.social 
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.
Kate Ivey-Williams @kateiw.bsky.social Head of Service Design for the Open University, ex GOV.UK. Van life, plants, dancing etc.
Stacey Walden @staceywalden.bsky.social Partner at Public Digital working on all things strategy, service delivery and org change. Former civil servant. Live by the sea with my husband and black lab.
Jess Neely @jessneely.bsky.social Service designer at Social Care Wales 
Stephen McCarthy @loft27design.bsky.social Head of Product Design and User Research at Which? 
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.
Kathryn Grace ๐๏ธ @iamkathryngrace.bsky.social Design Leader:
Service & Systems Design
Keeping digital health and care human and joining it up
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.
David Heath @davidheath.org Trying to make things work better
Internet Archive @archive.org Internet Archive is a non-profit research library preserving web pages, books, movies & audio for public access. Explore web history via the Wayback Machine. 
K @chaoxian.bsky.social Tofu-eating wokerati ๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ๐ต๐ธ he/him
Larry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office. 17 year old tabby. Living with my seventh Prime Minister. Unofficial.
https://www.buymeacoffee.com/Number10cat
@vinishree.bsky.social @vinishree.bsky.social Service Designer | Social Innovation & Planet Centered Design | Circular Economy
Artist at heart, Designer by passion ๐ค
Organiser of Doughnut Economics Scotland Network
Co-organiser of UX Glasgow 
@lizannrodrigues.bsky.social @lizannrodrigues.bsky.social Head of Digital and AI Strategy at GDS, ex Defra & Dept for Transport
๐๏ธAll views are my own.
Ellen @ellengoodman.bsky.social User researcher in gov 
Alasdair Hiscock @alasdair.co Design Lead at Nesta. Interested in mission oriented innovation, digital and policy design. Trying to make home decarbonisation happen 
Kwesi Afful @kwaycee.bsky.social All things digital, data and service design related. Exec Director for Digital at Scope 
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
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
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
zuz @zuz.bsky.social ๐ฌ๐ง ๐ต๐ฑ ๐ช๐ธ ok
๐ฐ๐ท ์ต์ ์ ๋คํ๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค
https://techforevil.tumblr.com
My DMs are NOT ON.
I do agile product delivery stuff for work but this account is just cat photos and various nonsense.
they/she
London, UK. Pero quiero vivir en Madrid. ๐๐ปโโ๏ธ
Jukesie @jukes.ie Bristolian | internet of public service person | comic book collector | street art seeker | Adidas obsessive | 50s | UK
https://jukes.ie
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
Amanda ๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐ฎ @ayymanduh.bsky.social All things data, digital, design, communities, leadership, justice & open culture.
Vibe: ๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐ฎ๐๐๐ผโฝ๏ธ๐๐ฅฆ๐ชฉ๐พ๐ง๐ผโโ๏ธโ๏ธโฎ๏ธ
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
Sophie Dennis @sophiedennis.bsky.social Head of User-Centred Design & Product @MadeTech. ex @ukhsa @nhsdigital @cxpartners @dwpdigital. Devon exile in Yorkshire. #sophiesthatux she/her
Tom Dolan @tomskerous.bsky.social Tall, curly, silly, sometimes musical. Currently Head of Product at Which?, freelance product coach and somehow also a trainer for Mind the Product. Did time at GDS, DIT, ITV, MTV, BBC. Helping art meet massive, and to get stories told. 
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
Cathy Dutton @cathydutton.co.uk Service Design & Delivery at the Department for Education. CSS enthusiast, Intrinsic Design fan.
www.cathydutton.co.uk
Andy Jones ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ @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.
Canโt get messages.
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.
Simon Everest @simoneverest.bsky.social Head of Product and Experience at @DCMS . Trying to do less better. All views my own, not my employer's. RT and likes not endorsements.
Martin Jordan @martinjordan.com Making services work better for all peopleโHead of Design & User Research at the German govtโs Digital Service, previously Head of #ServiceDesign at the UKโs Government Digital Service, intโl #GovDesign community co-lead, ๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ ally
martinjordan.com
Tom Loosemore @tomski.com Partner at Public Digital, co-founder Government Digital Service, ex-BBC. Expect occasional small boat sailing.
Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social Writes the most popular UK Substack (samf.substack.com)
Author of Sunday Times bestselling book "Failed State". (An Economist and Financial Times Book of the Year for 2024). Working on book two.
Senior fellow: Institute for Government
Janet Hughes @janethughes.bsky.social Director General Reform and Efficiency, UK Cabinet Office
Allotmenteer, reader, over-enthusiast.
Here to learn and make things work better.
Calum Ryan @calumryan.com Making the web a better more accessible place on GOV.UK at GDS and in my own time with https://calumryan.com
#Accessibility Advocate
Tech and travel enthusiast ๐งณ๐
๐ he/him
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Nikola Goger @nikolagoger.bsky.social Head of Design at Ministry of Justice UK
She/her ๐ฉ๐ช๐ฌ๐ง๐ช๐บ
Blogging at https://medium.com/@nikolagoger
Dave Cant @davecant.bsky.social Product person working on public services
Simon Binns @simonbinns.bsky.social Head of Content Development, GOV.UK. Ex journo - Ladbible, Reach, BBC, Guardian. 
David Durant @bowsy.co.uk I've been in the gov tech and transformation communitiy since 2009. I've worked for mySociety, the GLA, HackIT and GDS. I'm on the committees for GovCamp, Policy Camp, TransformGov Talks, the National Strategy Project and the UK Polyamory Association.
Anna Hepburn @annahepburn.bsky.social Content design leader, currently Head of Content Design at Justice Digital, previously Head of Content on GOV.UK, Head of Digital Engagement and Creative Content at Defra and Head of Digital Communities and Channels at DHSC
Mark Boulton @markboulton.co.uk Head of product design @checkout.com. Typographer. Cyclist. Likes tea.
Elliot Jay Stocks @elliotjaystocks.bsky.social ๐ Designer / author / speaker
๐ Fine Specimens
๐ Universal Principles of Typography
๐จโ๐ป Adobe Fonts
โ๏ธ Google Fonts, 8 Faces, Lagom
โ ๏ธ (Views are my own)
๐ https://elliotjaystocks.com/links
Dean Leigh @deanleigh.bsky.social Web designer specialising in CMS Templates, Design Systems, Component Libraries since 1996
๐ https://deanleigh.co.uk/
๐http://colchesterdigital.org.uk
๐Umbraco MVP
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Hey! Presents @heypresents.com Carefully crafted events celebrating the human side of the web. Rooted in Leeds, running strong since 2013.
Josh Nesbitt @joshnesbitt.dev Always building things.
CTO at https://genio.co
Fractional Consultant at https://stac.works
Conference organiser at @heypresents.com
Podcast at https://heypresents.com/podcast with @mrjameshall.bsky.social
Cooking at https://joshnesbitt.cooking
Amy Hupe @amyhupe.bsky.social She/her
Design systems and content design consultant. Reckless shitposter.
amyhupe.co.uk
wearefrankly.co
#DesignSystems #ContentDesign #WriteTheDocs
Stuart Robson @sturobson.com ๐ currently looking for new client work
๐ค Design Systems Practitioner
๐ Front-End Developer
๐ฐ Curates Design Systems News
๐๏ธ Formula One Watcher
๐งโโ Horror Fan
๐ BBQโer
๐ฅ๏ธ www.alwaystwisted.com
๐ news.design.systems
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
Alex Older @alexolder.com Full Stack Developer. Dad. Conf organiser @webdevconf.com
Dave Letorey @letorey.co.uk Organiser: https://londonwebstandards.org
Dancer: Gigs/Clubs/Festivals
Owner: https://code-red.uk
Wearer: Red Hats
London Web Standards @londonwebstandards.org Organisers of https://londonwebstandards.org and https://stateofthebrowser.com
organisers[at]londonwebstandards.org