Vitaly Friedman @vitalyf.bsky.social Practical insights for better UX • Running “Measure UX” and “Smart Interface Design Patterns” • Founder of SmashingMag • Speaker • Loves writing, checklists and running workshops on UX. 🍣
Measure UX → https://measure-ux.com
Andy Matuschak @andymatuschak.org More wonder, more insight, more expression, more joy!
Currently exploring tools that augment human memory and attention.
https://andymatuschak.org
Twitter: andy_matuschak
Mastodon: @andy@andymatuschak.org
The Culture Tutor @culturaltutor.bsky.social Always learning
John Maeda @johnmaeda.bsky.social Still going …
Design Reviewed @designreviewed.com 
99% Invisible @99pi.org Long running, award winning narrative podcast about all the thought that goes into things most people don’t think about.
www.99pi.org
siriusxm.com/podcasts-plus-subscription
Fonts In Use @fontsinuse.com Type at work in the real world. Fonts In Use is an independent archive of typography. https://fontsinuse.com
Primarily on Mastodon: https://typo.social/@fontsinuse
Newsletter: https://newsletter.fontsinuse.com?tag=bluesky
Atlas Obscura @atlasobscura.com The definitive guide to the world's hidden wonders 🗺️
Start exploring at atlasobscura.com
Fast Company @fastcompany.com Inspiring readers to think beyond traditional boundaries & create the future of business.
Read more: fastcompany.com
Padmini RM @padmini.bsky.social founder @ designbeku.org. ♥️: design and data justice, embroidery, tango and cats. 🤬: "design thinking", "innovation," #AIhype & patriarchy.
➕ ESRC Digital Good Fellow.
Hacker News Top Stories @hackernewsbot.bsky.social (Unofficial) Hacker News Bot with top stories updates.
Jobs from YC startups @whois-hiring.bsky.social
Creator @ykravchuk.bsky.social
Paper @paper.bsky.social Summarize the top 30 most popular arXiv papers on Reddit, Hacker News and Hugging Face in the last 30 days.
Source: https://github.com/susumuota/arxiv-reddit-summary
Maintained by @ota.bsky.social
agoston nagy @entangled.tools coding, algorithmic art, workshops
entangled.tools
hang xu @hangxu.bsky.social hang xu
Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com (He/Him) Folk Technologist • anthony.moser@gmail.com • N4EJ • http://www.BetterDataPortal.com • baker in The FOIA Bakery • http://publicdatatools.com • http://deseguys.com • #1 on hackernews when you search for "hater" • anthonymoser.github.io/writing/
VizChitra @vizchitra.bsky.social A space to connect and create with data | Organised India’s first dataviz conference
🗓️ VizChitra 2026: 3-4 July, Bengaluru
Get your tickets here: tickets.vizchitra.com
Carmen Torrecillas @carmen-tm.bsky.social Dataviz at @civio.es · Passionate about #dataviz #maps #creativeCoding alwaysLearning · 👩🏻💻🏳️🌈 she/her
https://observablehq.com/user/@carmen-tm
Adhavan Sivaraj @social.adhavansivaraj.xyz Data, humanities, politics
Maintaining constitutional.observer, safeyelli.in. Working with @aruvu.org @livinglabs.institute @livinglabs.network
adhavansivaraj.xyz
Sonja Kuijpers | STUDIO TERP @sonjakuijpers.bsky.social Datavisualization and data-art, one woman studio: illustrating data on social issues, mental health, science, culture.
Born in the 70s, NL (Brabo), 🏳️🌈 mother of 2 teens, macro photographer- C Chandra @chandra.omg.lol
Sahil Khan @sahilk.bsky.social Food. Design. Startups. What's your stance on bhindi? Product and design at Last9.
abhinit @abhinitial.bsky.social Mismanaging time. Documenting doing nothing. Past: Gojek, Leftshift.
Akshay Verma @akshayverma.bsky.social Founding partner @prophecy.one, specialising in new product discovery and design.
Kenneth @ken.cv Making: kenneth.dsouza.im/ai/
Hosting: designdemonights.com
Teaching: howtoaicode.com
Ken.cv
Vikalp @vikalp.me Designer. Past: Obvious & core-team Razorpay • 🐘@vikalp@tatooine.club
Ben Sorensen @benbenben.bsky.social 🪄 Making Design Magic at Disney
🗽 NYC Metro
🪚Garage Woodworker
📸 Hobby Photographer
🛜 www.benbensorensen.com
🃏 https://www.tiktok.com/@zerosens3?_t=ZT-8u4i7kkvHBa&_r=1
📹 https://youtube.com/@benbenstuff?si=_5k1HWwF-aRXlm8F
Hà Phan @hpdailyrant.bsky.social Musings about Design & Product. Currently at Zillow, Design Tech & AI.
Craig Mod @craigmod.com Writer & photographer. Japan based for 20+ years.
Author of Things Become Other Things (Random House: May 2025), Kissa by Kissa (2020). Contributor to NYTimes, Atlantic, WIRED, and more. Walks a lot. Bla bla bla!!
shop.specialprojects.jp
craigmod.com
Pavel @spavel.bsky.social Raised gifted; non-practicing.
If your reply doesn't have alt text, I won't see it.
🌐 productpicnic.beehiiv.com 💼 UX Design 🟦 Sick of rectangles 🧑 he/him
Maxim Leyzerovich @round.is design at flora.ai
brooklyn
Femke @femke.bsky.social www.femke.design
Dan Mall @danmall.bsky.social 
Amelia Wattenberger @wattenberger.com web dev, design, LLMs, data viz, tools for thought
✨ Design @ SHV
🌸 wattenberger.com
Joey Banks @joeyabanks.me Independent design systems designer. 📐 Now @ Baseline, prev. Webflow, Twitter, & Figma. I love making the things that help others do their thing.
👋 baselinedesign.com
📬 newsletter.baselinedesign.com
Mia @mialoira.bsky.social Maker, gardener, Airstreamer • Designdept.co
Tatiana Van Campenhout 🌲 @tats.bsky.social Belgian ✈ living in Seattle. Design manager @stripe. Obsessed with PNW hiking, aspiring mountaineer! http://tats.exposure.co
David Hoang @davidhoang.com “Sometimes to create, one must first destroy.” AI Atlassian. Previously Replit, Webflow, One Medical, and Black Pixel. Love live the open web. Posts are from the blog: https://blog.davidhoang.com
Fons Mans @fonsmans.com Founder of Offgrid® — (offgrid.inc)
Jonnie Hallman @jonnie.com Independent Design Engineer. Ex-Stripe.
Freelancing at destroytoday.com.
Building ball.app and cushionapp.com.
Owner of jonnie.com.
Co-mayor of designtown.nyc.
Doing too much.
Adrián Mato 🐙 @adrianmato.com 🐙 Design & developer tools at XBOX
🙋♂️ adrianmato.com
💼 Startup investor & advisor
✨ 3D wallpapers on adrianmato.art
Dantley Davis @dantley.bsky.social Design @ServiceNow
Ex Meta, Netflix, Nike
Noah @nlevin.bsky.social VP Design @ Figma. New here.
Ethan Marcotte @ethanmarcotte.com designer, writer, roommate to two kittens. here’s my website: https://ethanmarcotte.com/
I think you deserve a union, and I wrote a book about that: https://youdeserveatechunion.com/
hi friend
(headshot by @elaina.bsky.social)
Maggie Appleton @maggieappleton.com Staff Research Engineer @githubnext.com. But actually a designer.
Adores digital gardening, end-user development, and embodied cognition. Makes visual essays about design, programming, and anthropology.
📍 London
🌱 maggieappleton.com
zeldman @zeldman.bsky.social “King of Web Standards”—Businessweek. Ava’s dad. OG web designer. Automattician. Composer. zeldman.com + alistapart.com. Author “Designing With Web Standards.” Founded Happy Cog. Taught MFA IXD @ SVA NYC. Co-founded A Book Apart & An Event Apart (RIP).
Laura Klein @lauraklein.bsky.social Designer, researcher, author.
Treat motivated. 
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
Jonas Downey @jonas.do Design Director @ Superhuman // Co-creator of Hello Weather. Ex-Figma, Twitter, and some other stuff. Puns always intended. he/him
🌐 https://jonas.do
🌞 @helloweather.com
Prateek Rungta @rungta.bsky.social 
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
Andy Allen @andy.works CEO & Chairman of Not Boring Software Ltd.
notboring.software
Kenneth Field @kennethfield.bsky.social Cartography is my passion & profession. Author of CARTOGRAPHY. & THEMATIC MAPPING. Maps+drums+snowboards+footy+sarcasm. 🇬🇧 in 🇺🇸 Views mine. links.esri.com/mappyhour
Sam @samkapila.com Three hungry puppies in a trench coat and author of Inclusive Design Communities. Leading UX at @netlify.com. Food motivated. She/her.
https://samk.app
@threefiftytwo.bsky.social @threefiftytwo.bsky.social 
@jdallcaps.bsky.social @jdallcaps.bsky.social 
Krisztina Szűcs @krisztinaszucs.bsky.social Data visualization designer
krisztinaszucs.com
Karthik Balakrishnan @karthikb351.com Making friends via @underline.center
Board games at https://reroll.in. Puzzles at @blr.puzzledpint.com. Earlier: @internetfreedom.bsky.social, @hasgeek.com, @recursecenter.bsky.social, https://insider.in
Mapbox @mapbox.com Mapbox powers navigation for people, packages, and vehicles everywhere.
www.mapbox.com
Register for BUILD with Mapbox: https://www.mapbox.com/build
Tan G. @tangandhara.bsky.social Data analyst and data viz geek
Aman Bhargava @aman.bh code, data and design person.
I run diagramchasing.fun.
Bangalore, India
#dataviz #rstats #svelte #maps
🔗 https://aman.bh
Daniel Burka @dburka.bsky.social Designer and product manager. Founder of simple.org, healthicons.org, hardproblems.com. Working on public health tech at Resolve to Save Lives: rtsl.org
Shreyas Satish @shreyas12.bsky.social Founder at ownpath.com. 
Noopur Varma @9porcupine.bsky.social Designer | Independent Consultant, visiting faculty @nid_Bangalore, Previously @gojektech, @nilenso | @nid_Bangalore | Feminist | She/her | Dog parent
Mushon Zer Aviv @mushon.bsky.social Politics of: systems/ interaction/ design/ futures/ friction/ flow/ budgets/ data/ vis/ privacy/ networks/ Middle-East/ maps/ cities/ labor/ zombies
Amber Sinha @ambersinha07.bsky.social Executive Director at EDRi | Author of “The Networked Public” | Contributing Editor, Tech Policy Press | he/him/his
Ben Wylie @plottheball.com Using data to tell better stories about international sport at Plot the Ball
https://www.plottheball.com
ben@plottheball.com
Data journalist at Insurance Insider in my day job
https://www.insuranceinsider.com
ben.wylie@insuranceinsider.com
Alark Joshi @alark.bsky.social Data Visualization researcher and Professor of Computer Science at the University of San Francisco. Research interests - Visualization Literacy, Mobile Data Visualization. Anti-Racist. Immigrant.
web: https://www.cs.usfca.edu/~apjoshi
The Pudding @pudding.cool The Pudding is a digital publication that explains ideas debated in culture with visual essays. https://pudding.cool/
Email: sup@pudding.cool
Support us: http://patreon.com/thepudding
Surbhi Bhatia @surbhaai.bsky.social aspiring data vizard
Marena @marenab.bsky.social DevRel @ Mapbox
X handle @Marena_B
LinkedIn linkedin.com/in/marena-b-smith/
Andy Kirk @visualisingdata.com An Independent Data Visualisation Expert educating, inspiring, and celebrating data viz excellence, everywhere since 2010.
🇬🇧 in 🇮🇪
It’s all here http://visualisingdata.com/
Lisa Charlotte Muth @lisacmuth.bsky.social Creating & writing about data vis for @datawrapper.de
Juuso Koponen @juusokoponen.bsky.social 📊 Information designer/data journalist, Koponen+Hildén
Co-author, “Data Visualization Handbook”
Teacher, data journalism & visualization at Haaga-Helia etc.
DJ
❤️ Maurizio, XCOM 2, GitS, Vernaccia di S. Gimignano
Output in 🇫🇮🇬🇧
Input also in 🇸🇪🇮🇹
Evelina Parrou @parabole.bsky.social Data storytelling + information design expert⚡️Founder of Parabole Studio 📡 www.parabole.studio 👈
Randall Munroe @xkcd.com 
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
Wikipedia Picture of the Day @wiki-potd.bsky.social 🤖 posting of the Picture of the Day from Wikipedia every day 🌎 Sibling account at @potd-context.bsky.social
I'm open source! Maintained by @drezner.xyz
Learn more about how these images are curated at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day