Jan Maarten @janmaarten.com Inclusive designer, privacy advocate, writer, and future hermit. (he/him)
Please don’t add me to your starter packs.
Opinions are my own.
🌐 https://janmaarten.com
Raghav Agrawal @impactology@mastodon.social @impactology.bsky.social Product designer | Making complex systems fit ordinary human limits.
https://twitter.com/impactology
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.
Tom Kerwin @tomdkerwin.bsky.social Trying to draw the rest of the fucking owl. My best efforts so far are Innovation Tactics (my deck from pipdecks.com) and what we do at crownandreach.com
Mike Press @mikepress.bsky.social Writer - about music, about London, often both together. Sometimes about design. Edinburgh based.
One half of the Walk on the Wild Side project.
https://walkonthewildside.substack.com
We write, take photos and organise walks.
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.
Stephen King @stephenking.bsky.social Writer
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
Kate Towsey @katetowsey.bsky.social ResearchOps guru. Author of "Research That Scales: The ResearchOps Handbook" (Rosenfeld, 2024). Founder of the Cha Cha Club–a members' club for ResearchOps professionals.
Steve Portigal @steveportigal.bsky.social Superb user research consultant; author of Doorbells, Danger and Dead Batteries & Interviewing Users (http://portigal.com/books), Host
Dollars To Donuts podcast
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
Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social I try to be helpful. Bike-riding dog butler and mold connoisseur.
Use your employer's money to buy Just Enough Research: www.mulebooks.com/just-enough-research.
Enjoy clickens.chicken.pics when you need a break.
San Francisco. She/They/Friend/Sir
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social Waitress turned Congresswoman for the Bronx and Queens. Grassroots elected, small-dollar supported. A better world is possible.
ocasiocortez.com
Amy Hoy @amyhoy.bsky.social - OG web - design - hci - reading - writing - saas biz - edu biz - photos - cats - desert - she
"a powerfully repulsive mixture of dense, stubborn and arrogant" to people who don't like facts.
Kim Goodwin @kimgoodwin.bsky.social Author: Designing for the Digital Age. Consultant. Design & product exec. Researcher. Speaker & teacher. Wildlife photographer.
📷/🧵 Kim.Goodwin
William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social Author of Neuromancer and, most recently, Agency (still above from “Kill Switch”, The X-Files, Season 5, Episode 11, co-written with Tom Maddox)
Dominic Campbell @dominiccampbell.bsky.social Partner at Impossible Ideas | Founded FutureGov | Hackney ex-pat | #utb
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
Cyd Harrell @cydharrell.bsky.social cyberpunk is a warning, not a manual
she/her. dayjob & usual location: City & County of San Francisco (this is a personal account)
ex-18F; on the board @publicgood.tech ; wrote a small book about doing this: https://cydharrell.com/book/
Kathryn Grace 🕊️ @iamkathryngrace.bsky.social Design Leader:
Service & Systems Design
Keeping digital health and care human and joining it up
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 Chigbo @tomchigbo.bsky.social Chair of @chapelalabour.bsky.social & @leedsnelabour.bsky.social
Governor at Holy Rosary & St Anne's Primary, Leeds
Previously: @tpximpact.com & @citizensuk.org
James Plunkett @jamestplunkett.bsky.social Interested in more human ways to govern our lives together, and how technology can help. Blog: https://medium.com/@jamestplunkett 🏳️⚧️
Harry @harryao.bsky.social 
Julian @julianlstar.bsky.social CEO of Open Data Manchester, liker of the outside and outsiders, prone to disagreement. Views expressed may change within the space of a few seconds. Optimistic mostly
Dave Cunningham @davecunningham.bsky.social Designer who does DesignOps and accessibility. Once left my tent on a coach.
https://www.amplify-us.co.uk
Julia Allum @juliaallum.bsky.social Illustrator with a love of colour shapes & Art Deco design, represented worldwide by Meiklejohn
I can't read DMs, contact details are here -
Portfolio & shop - https://juliaallum.co.uk/
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
Ella Fitzsimmons @fitzsimple.bsky.social Making tech stories real ✨ ex-GDS, now in LA
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.
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
Rod McLaren @rodm.bsky.social Writing words for climate and digital, for orgs like Sport England, FF, ustwo, Public Digital, [redacted] and you. Ex Co-op, Mobbu, ECK.L, F365. Was @rod in the other place. 
@jo-scho.bsky.social @jo-scho.bsky.social Content design and strategy.
Mike Gallagher @mikegallagher.bsky.social I dunno. Also: Lead designer for the NHS App.- D David Broggio @davidbroggio.bsky.social
Aviv Katz @avivkatz.bsky.social Designer, researcher, educator working mostly in health and social innovation
scott⚡️mccloud @scottmccloud.bsky.social Understands comics… mostly… Now on sale: THE CARTOONISTS CLUB, co-created with the legendary Raina Telgemeier! https://bit.ly/CartoonistClub And I'm also working on a massive book about visual communication; learn more at scottmccloud.com.
Ed Zitron @edzitron.com British, But In Las Vegas and NYC
ezitron.76 Sig
Newsletter - wheresyoured.at
https://linktr.ee/betteroffline - podcast w/ iheartradio
Chosen by god, perfected by science
CEO at EZPR.com
Timmy Jackpots, The $13,250 Diamond Dazzler @tbone.malware-virus.biz I'm just a spudboy looking for that real tomato.
Milwaukeean. I wrote Health Justice Now, a book about Medicare for All and beyond.
https://error.malware-virus.biz
💦 water 🌞 sun 🌱 seed 🌏 soil @earthgardener.bsky.social Sustainable livelihood 🧑🌾🏡🌿🌱 Traditional smallholdings
🌏🌲Restore & protect Earth's beautiful environment🦅🌈
🖤 Sharing
❤️Justice
💛 Equality
🤍 Respect
🙌Vote 4 *Free land for all* 🏡🏡🏡🏡
1ha each
in villages
🐨🌳Gumbaynggirr, East Australia
Jeff Gothelf @jeffgothelf.bsky.social Author, speaker, trainer - www.jeffgothelf.com and www.okr-book.com
Tom Loosemore @tomski.com Partner at Public Digital, co-founder Government Digital Service, ex-BBC. Expect occasional small boat sailing.
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
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
Kate Ivey-Williams @kateiw.bsky.social Head of Service Design for the Open University, ex GOV.UK. Van life, plants, dancing etc.
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
Amy Everett @amyeverett.bsky.social Runner. Lead user researcher in NHS. Living in Sheffield with my wife and our two silly greyhounds. 
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
Anna Goss @annagoss.co Deputy director of Test, Learn & Grow. Otherwise mostly hanging out with my dog.
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.
John Cutler @johncutle.fish I like the beautiful mess of product development.| newsletter: https://cutlefish.substack.com
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
Harry Scott-Trimble @harrytrimble.bsky.social Designer | harrytrimble.com
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
Steve Garrett @stevengarrett.bsky.social Usually 🏃♂️ and navigating 🚧
Data and digital with a dash of optimism
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.
Leisa Reichelt @leisar.bsky.social betwixt and between
Kyle Soo @kylesoo.bsky.social Partnerships & Product Manager at B Lab UK | Lawyer | Design Council Expert | Service Designer | Lego® Serious Play® facilitator | Organiser of PechaKucha Night Manchester | Year Here Fellow and Trustee | Leathercrafter
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.
Zach Moss @zachmoss.bsky.social Work @compassionindying.bsky.social | 🪃 | Trying to do less, but better. Bleets not Skeets. zachmoss.co.uk
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.
Cathy Dutton @cathydutton.co.uk Service Design & Delivery at the Department for Education. CSS enthusiast, Intrinsic Design fan.
www.cathydutton.co.uk
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
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
Sophie Dennis @sophiedennis.bsky.social Head of User-Centred Design & Product @MadeTech. ex @ukhsa @nhsdigital @cxpartners @dwpdigital. Devon exile in Yorkshire. #sophiesthatux she/her
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.
Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social Hopeful technologist.
Community tech, careful innovation, socially progressive tech policy.
https://www.careful.industries
https://hopeful.technology
https://buttondown.email/justenoughinternet
DMs don't work but hello@careful.industries will find me
Ben Holliday @benholliday.com Design and digital transformation | Chief Design Officer at TPXimpact | UK Lake District
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
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
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
Rob Whiting 📓 @whitingx.bsky.social #Research & #Design at @merlan.bsky.social ⟹ Narrow of purpose, wide of vision. ツ
George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social Ungainly on land
SmokeDaddy @smokedaddy.bsky.social BBQ Junkie/Smoker, edTech refugee, nomad, & D&D newbie.
LVL 83 Barbecutioner
100 Cooking
87 Pyromancy
72 Bladed Weapons
Neil Gaiman @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com Makes things up. Writes them down. Dreams about growing up but not yet. 
FT Visual & Data Journalism @data.ft.com The FT’s team of reporters, statisticians, illustrators, cartographers, designers, and developers work with colleagues across our newsrooms, using graphics and data to find, investigate and explain stories.
https://www.ft.com/visual-and-data-journalism