Jim 🔥 @jim.chat Engineer, builder, father, investor, farmer …
I create @nourished.news and write http://ultraprocessed.news …
Come for the snark … stay for, well … more snark.
Duncan Brown @duncanjbrown.com I make software. i.AI, NHS, DfE
https://mechanicalsurvival.com
Ralph @ralphhawkins.bsky.social Lifestyle brand
ralphhawkins.co.uk
Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social Journalist. Author. Podcaster. Liberal extremist.
Abisola @abisola.bsky.social Aspiring human
Humane Design @humanedesign.bsky.social Designing products and services that improve the human experience in a sustainable, accessible, and ethical way.
→ https://humanedesign.co/
→ https://www.linkedin.com/company/humanedesign
Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow – No trackers, no a… @pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy 🌉 bridged from 🌐 https://pluralistic.net/: https://fed.brid.gy/web/pluralistic.net
Adrian Howard @adrianhoward.com Drinks less coffee than people expect. Enjoys helping people solve problems in the messy cross-disciplinary spaces where strategy, research, & delivery overlap. Does coaching with senior practitioners & leaders.
adrianhoward.com | quietstars.com/coaching
alberta soranzo @albertas.bsky.social
Alison Austin @alisonaustin.bsky.social Product consultant & leadership coach. Experienced in CX, Product, UX, agile. I ❤️ collaboration, systems thinking & building effective, happy teams.
I also talk about leadership thru a resilience lens & how to prevent burnout in the workplace.
She/her
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.
Smashing Magazine @smashingmagazine.com An online magazine for designers and web developers. Questions? The Smashing Team has your back! Curated by Iris, Vitaly, and the Support team.
Adam Silver @adamsilverhq.bsky.social Designer with engineering background. I talk about designing products that are intuitive, accessible and delightful to use.
Design newsletter:
https://adamsilver.io/newsletter
Good Design Crash Course (free):
https://adamsilver.io/gdcc
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
Mark Dalgarno @markdalgarno.bsky.social Delivery @ http://createchange.io - Digital Transformation, UCD, Agile methods.
He/Him. I don't speak for my clients.
Organiser Agile Manchester, Agile Cambridge, Lean Agile Scotland, Ripples: Bristol, UX Scotland, SDinGov, Lean Agile Exchange
Lily Dart @lilydart.bsky.social Design Director @photobox. 20 years in design. 10 yrs public speaking. Diversity, inclusion & design at scale. Advisory board @innovateheruk she/her 🏳️🌈 ♿️
Sophie Dennis @sophiedennis.bsky.social Head of User-Centred Design & Product @MadeTech. ex @ukhsa @nhsdigital @cxpartners @dwpdigital. Devon exile in Yorkshire. #sophiesthatux she/her
Richard Pope @richardpope.org I wrote a book on public services:
https://londonpublishingpartnership.co.uk/books/platformland-an-anatomy-of-next-generation-public-services/
It’s time to share the benefits of digital with the public properly.
steve @visitmy.website workplace bez. doing product & strategy bits thru https://boringmagi.cc. more about me at https://visitmy.website/about
Christina Wodtke @cwodtke.bsky.social Contains multitudes.
Author of Radical Focus and many more.
Lecturer at Stanford.
Often somewhere with a beach and ruins.
John Cutler @johncutle.fish I like the beautiful mess of product development.| newsletter: https://cutlefish.substack.com
Neil Williams @neillyneil.bsky.social Digital and tech exec at the BFI. Previously GOV.UK, and a tough but edifying stint in local gov. Alcohol free. Fun facts: I can't form mental images and have no inner monologue (aphantasia) nor remember my own life (SDAM). https://neilojwilliams.net
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
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
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
Alex Torrance @alextorrance.co.uk The Idiot
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.
Dominic Campbell @dominiccampbell.bsky.social Partner at Impossible Ideas | Founded FutureGov | Hackney ex-pat | #utb
Hà Phan @hpdailyrant.bsky.social Musings about Design & Product. Currently at Zillow, Design Tech & AI.
Kara Kane @karakane.bsky.social Unapologetically pragmatic, aggressively cheerful, spitefully optimistic empathetic human. No book bans. Let's build resilient, loving communities. We need more than good intentions. Public health public education public libraries public service mutual aid
Laura Klein @lauraklein.bsky.social Designer, researcher, author.
Treat motivated.
Nick Finck @nickf.bsky.social User experience & product design coach, advisor, mentor, + speaker. Founder of Craft & Rigor. Co-creator of Progressive Enhancement Strategy. Loves pizza & D&D. Past: Meta, AWS, Deloitte, Ubermind. He/him.
Simon Wardley. @swardley.bsky.social Mapper. I like ducks, they're fowl but not through choice.
Steve Dennis @subcide.com By day, Staff Product Designer, writes occasionally about design, design systems, leadership, and tech @ clipcontent.substack.com. By day also (but the weekends) indie game dev of SpinShot for Playdate.- V Vivianne Castillo @vivianne.bsky.social
Cathy Dutton @cathydutton.co.uk Service Design & Delivery at the Department for Education. CSS enthusiast, Intrinsic Design fan.
www.cathydutton.co.uk
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.
James Higgott @jiggott.bsky.social Head of Product for NHS App at NHS England. Expect digital health + culture + cricket + games + low-res puns.
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.
Terence Eden @edent.tel Longer hair than you.
Chaotic Good.
Doesn't work for The Man™ any more.
If you're involved in Blockchain or Crypto you will be blocked on sight.
All content © and personal. May not be reproduced without consent.
Blog https://shkspr.mobi/blog
Ed Horsford @edwardhorsford.bsky.social
Leisa Reichelt @leisar.bsky.social betwixt and between
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.
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.
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.
Ignacia Orellana @ignaciaorellana.bsky.social Independent service design and digital transformation lead.
Mainly works in public sector.
Previously: Service Design lead @gdsteam. Chilena en Londres
She/her
https://ignaciaorellana.com/
Ben Terrett @benterrett.bsky.social CEO of Public Digital. Former Deputy Chair of UAL. .
/benterrett everywhere else.
www.benterrett.com
Giles Turnbull @gilestur.bsky.social \o/
https://gilest.org • https://usethehumanvoice.com
Andrew Duckworth @duckworthdesign.bsky.social Designer and occasional product person. Endlessly talking about how great you are.
Stephen McCarthy @loft27design.bsky.social Head of Product Design and User Research at Which?
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
Dan Saffer @odannyboy.bsky.social Designer. Author. Professor. Neutral Good Gen Xer. San Franciscan in Pittsburgh. Keeper of the Saffervesence.
Dan Lockton @danlockton.com Utrecht, NL + Norwich, UK
Prof of Design & Imagination, Norwich University of the Arts ⦿ Director, Institute for Sustainable Worlds https://sustainableworlds.org.uk ⦿ Design⸻imagination⸻climate⸻futures ⦿ http://imaginari.es ⦿ he/him ⦿ Not employer's views
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).
spydergrrl @spydergrrl.bsky.social Outdoorsy UXer. Workshop design coach & consultant. Lives with anxiety. Runs on espresso and Star Wars. She/her. 🇨🇦🏳️🌈 Founder of CanUX. Best known for popularizing the phrase "UX Theatre". https://spydergrrl.com
Indi Young @indiyoung.bsky.social Data Science that Listens - indiyoung.com
Book - Time to Listen indiyoung.com/books/
Systems thinking research for solutions that support human variety. (Fully human made posts & illustrations; no use of AI)
Whitney Q @whitneyq.bsky.social Center for Civic Design. A Web for Everyone. plain language. storytelling. democracy
Thinkers50 @thinkers50.com Thinkers50 is the world’s most reliable resource for identifying, ranking, and sharing the leading management ideas of our age.
https://thinkers50.com
Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social Professor at Wharton, studying AI and its implications for education, entrepreneurship, and work. Author of Co-Intelligence.
Book: https://a.co/d/bC2kSj1
Substack: https://www.oneusefulthing.org/
Web: https://mgmt.wharton.upenn.edu/profile/emollick
Kim Scott @kimballscott.bsky.social Author,
Radical Candor: Be a Kickass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity
&
Radical Respect: How to Work Together Better
Rita McGrath @rgmcgrath.bsky.social Columbia University Business School Professor | C-Suite Strategist | Thinkers 50 Top 10 | Best-selling author | Founder, Valize and Rita McGrath Group
https://linktr.ee/ritamcgrath
Adam Grant @adamgrant.bsky.social Organizational psychologist @Wharton. #1 NYT bestseller: THINK AGAIN. Podcasts: Re:Thinking & WorkLife. Diver. Arguing like I’m right, listening like I’m wrong.
Bruce Lawson @brucel.bsky.social Web standards a11y lovegod who leverages synergies at Vivaldi browser. More posts & conversation at @brucelawson@vivaldi.net. This is broadcast-only, as I've been disappointed by non-Fediverse platforms before. Musician. He/ him. Personal views. RT≠+1.
Jukesie @jukes.ie Bristolian | internet of public service person | comic book collector | street art seeker | Adidas obsessive | 50s | UK
https://jukes.ie
Nikola Goger @nikolagoger.bsky.social Head of Design at Ministry of Justice UK
She/her 🇩🇪🇬🇧🇪🇺
Blogging at https://medium.com/@nikolagoger
Nick Smith @skynick.bsky.social I'm not new here anymore. I do agile-ish things for government.
Jen Hadfield @jenhadfield.bsky.social Service designer in gov. Gets joy from solving problems and making things better for people.
Andy Budd @andybudd.bsky.social Design Founder, speaker, start-up advisor & coach. Seedcamp Venture Partner. Formerly Clearleft, LDConf & UXLondon. Ex shark-wrangler. Pilot. He/Him — https://stacklist.app/andybudd
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. 🤠
Kathryn Grace 🕊️ @iamkathryngrace.bsky.social Design Leader:
Service & Systems Design
Keeping digital health and care human and joining it up
Pete Ward @pjtward.bsky.social Cycling aficionado
Dad
Delivery @ NHSE
Latino de corazón
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
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 🏳️⚧️
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
Public Digital @publicdigital.bsky.social We're a specialist digital transformation consultancy. We help governments, businesses and companies change their ways of working and thrive in the digital era.
https://public.digital/
Julianne Bowman @julsbo.bsky.social Freelance user research & product. Helping orgs become more usefully digital & user centred. Serious food nerd.
Clara Greo @claragt.bsky.social Community, capability & equity in design and UCD. Not white. she/her. Grieving. Resting.✊🏿🏳️⚧️🍉🌏
Frankie Roberto @frankieroberto.com Freelance interaction designer. X-GOVUK contributor. London dad. Car-free cities. Working for NHS England.
https://www.frankieroberto.com
Gavin Wye @gavinwye.bsky.social
Ben Holliday @benholliday.com Design and digital transformation | Chief Design Officer at TPXimpact | UK Lake District
Nic Price @nicprice.bsky.social Design, inclusive public services. Bristol, cycling and coffee. Take a problem for a walk. People thinking
Shaun @sconner.net
Jack Garfinkel @curiousscutter.bsky.social Content design, dungarees, parenting, custard they/them
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
Cat Noone @catnoone.bsky.social CEO @ Stark • Designer • Bookworm • No filter • Founder @ Smoooth Operators
getstark.co • imcatnoone.substack.com • smooothoperators.com
Mr Joe Leech @joe.mr Coach to CEOs. Former school teacher, recovering neuroscientist, tech veteran, rational optimist, great at Tuesdays.
https://mrjoe.uk
Clarity @clarityconf.com A design systems community conference.
Founded by @jina.social
Wes Bos @wesbos.com Fullstack Dev ❯ JS⚛ CSS Node ❯ JavaScript30.com ❯ wesbos.com/courses ❯ 🔥 Tips ❯ Podcast @syntax.fm
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
Femke @femke.bsky.social www.femke.design
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
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
Will Myddelton @myddelton.bsky.social Product manager these days. Previously a designer, researcher and even once wrote bad front-end code. Sometimes writes at myddelton.co.uk
Amanda 🏳️🌈🔮 @ayymanduh.bsky.social All things data, digital, design, communities, leadership, justice & open culture.
Vibe: 🏳️🌈🔮💀💃🏼⚽️🌞🥦🪩🍾🧘🏼♀️⚖️☮️
Anna Goss @annagoss.co Deputy director of Test, Learn & Grow. Otherwise mostly hanging out with my dog.
Rachel Andrew @rachelandrew.co.uk Content lead for Chrome Web Developer Relations. Opinions (and cats) my own.