Josh Wirz @joshwirz.bsky.social Glasgow based artist interested in the semiotics of greenwashing, the politics of social media and the creative potential of live streamed performance.
www.joshwirz.com
Creative Dundee @creativedundee.bsky.social Strengthening Dundee’s creative community through connections, support and opportunities. Join our #AmpsDundee network and visit our website for news & events!
https://creativedundee.com/
Ross Wilcock @rosswilcockmedia.bsky.social Gay/ disabled Scottish poet, writer and activist. 🏳️🌈🏴 open mics 2 times a month. 🏳️🌈🏳️🌈
This Thing They Call Recovery @thisthingblog.bsky.social Hi, I’m Jenny! (She/her) ✏️ Chronic illness and disability content. “For when ‘Get Well Soon’ is just a bit shit”. Freelance designer, consultant, small biz owner 🏴 https://www.thisthingtheycallrecovery.com/links
Rebecca (Becks) Lee @beckslee.bsky.social Award-winning Design Researcher & Consultant for accessible policy, products & services | Founder of the Universal Recognition Movement - Disabled leaders in access innovation | Freelance Equity & Access Lead | Invisibly Disabled | Often found illustrating
Alexandra D-S @designswarm.bsky.social Keep me from the fatal habit of thinking I must say something on every subject and on every occasion.
designswarm.com
Cathy Dutton @cathydutton.co.uk Service Design & Delivery at the Department for Education. CSS enthusiast, Intrinsic Design fan.
www.cathydutton.co.uk
Ryan Miemczyk @handle.invalid ONS Accredited Researcher | Founder of imd2025.co.uk & theimpactlab.co.uk | Director of Research @ Trust Impact | Chair @ ManchesterYoungLives | Deputy Chair @ YMCAManchester |
I help charities measure the important stuff
https://linktr.ee/ryanmiemczyk
I thought about that a lot @allconsuming.bsky.social An advent calendar of 24 essays by 24 authors.
Curated by @amymcnichol.bsky.social, designed by @madebysheppard.bsky.social, @ralphhawkins.bsky.social
Be consumed: ithoughtaboutthatalot.com
Subscribe: https://buttondown.email/ithoughtalot
Linsey McIntosh @linseymcintosh.bsky.social A designer, educator, facilitator and researcher with a passion for spaces, places, people and communities. Interior & Environmental Design Lecturer at DJCAD.
John Fitzgerald @johnfitzg.bsky.social digital evolution • charities • change • digital strategy • tech for good • fixing the plumbing • responsible AI • Scotland • feed may contain bikes and sailing
Connor @codesign.scot Hey sunshine ☀ Dundee, Scotland • Designer and educator • they/them • 📷🎹☕🏳️🌈⚧️🍉
Claire Reynolds @claireereynolds.bsky.social Co-designing better experiences for health and care. Service design | User research | Innovation | Transformation | Charity Digital
Joanne Hagerty @joannehagerty.bsky.social Building a better world with innovation. Training, facilitation and innovation support @ Firefly innovation. Tweeting about things that interest and amuse including business for good and Scottish Football. www.fireflyinnovates.com
Lauren Tormey @ltormey.bsky.social Senior Content Designer at University of Edinburgh. Runner. Immigrant (turned dual citizen) wanting to change the system. She/her. I write about life: https://ltormey.medium.com and running: https://laurunning.blogspot.com.
Osbert Lancaster @osbert.org Podcaster, facilitator and improviser, exploring how people and the rest of nature can thrive, right now and whatever the polycrisis brings.
https://thrivablescotland.com/
📍Edinburgh, Scotland
School of Innovation & Technology @sit-gsa.bsky.social The School of Innovation & Technology at The Glasgow School of Art
The School of Good Services @theschoolofgood.bsky.social We help organisations get better at designing and delivering services that work for their users
Run by Sarah Drummond and Lou Downe
good.services
Emma Parnell @emmaparnell.bsky.social Taking a relational approach to co-designing the services that impact people's lives.
Service design consultant, writer, mentor, public speaker.
Designing over at Design for Joy: designforjoy.co.uk
she/her
Ned Gartside @nedgartside.bsky.social Service designer very interested in sustainability and systems thinking and that sort of thing.
Tash @tashwillcocks.bsky.social Head of Learning Design @tpximpact
Ex @WeAreSnook ex Director MAs Europe &
Honorary Fellow @HyperIsland
Organiser @DesignEducation
WIPtypostrator ⬇️
Jaskiran Kang @jaskang.bsky.social
Imandeep Kaur @immykaur.bsky.social Co - Founder @CIVIC_SQUARE, prev aka Impact Hub Birmingham || @TEDxBrum 2012 - 2017 || Hon Doc. @AstonUniversity ||
Coco @cocochan.bsky.social Product lead in UK gov. Principal percussionist of The Flowers Band (European Champions ‘26). Prolific knitter. She/her
Joseph Rowntree Foundation @jrf-uk.bsky.social We work to speed up and support the transition to a future free from poverty, in which people and planet can flourish.
https://www.jrf.org.uk/
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
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
Gillian Easson @gillianeasson.bsky.social Shaper of projects. Fan of people, places, platforms + what we do next, collectively. she/her.
Ross McCulloch @thirdsectorlab.co.uk Tech for good insights, digital activism and occasional photos of Scotland.
Founder at Third Sector Lab - Helping charities deliver more impact with digital, data & design ⚡️
https://thirdsectorlab.co.uk/
36k Twitter followers - starting from 0 here.
INCLUDE+ @include-plus.bsky.social Exploring how social and digital environments can be built, shaped, and sustained to enable all people to thrive.
Funded by EPSRC
https://includeplus.org/
Michael Gearon @michaelgearon.bsky.social Senior Interaction Designer at Government Digital Service (GDS) • Co-Author of Tiny CSS Projects • Working between Cardiff & Bristol
https://mgearon.com
Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social Chief Executive, The British Academy
Chair, Our World in Data
Board, National Audit Office
Visiting Professor in Practice, LSE
Visiting Professor, Kings College London
Fellow, Birkbeck College
Views my own
Ben Holliday @benholliday.com Design and digital transformation | Chief Design Officer at TPXimpact | UK Lake District
@jenthomson.bsky.social @jenthomson.bsky.social
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
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
Matt Skinner @skinnerm.bsky.social CEO at Care City CIC supporting innovation across health and social care #ageing #localgov #socialcare #health #opendata #digital #design #tech 🌈 https://www.carecity.org/
Kathryn Grace 🕊️ @iamkathryngrace.bsky.social Design Leader:
Service & Systems Design
Keeping digital health and care human and joining it up
Jukesie @jukes.ie Bristolian | internet of public service person | comic book collector | street art seeker | Adidas obsessive | 50s | UK
https://jukes.ie
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
Jen Hadfield @jenhadfield.bsky.social Service designer in gov. Gets joy from solving problems and making things better for people.
Aviv Katz @avivkatz.bsky.social Designer, researcher, educator working mostly in health and social innovation
Chris Brown @climatisechris.bsky.social Rewilding, Renewables, Retrofit - Climatise.uk
Neil Scott @neilscott.substack.com Designer, writer, and photographer.
crop.photography
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
UX Scotland @uxscotland.bsky.social 9 - 10 June 2027 | UX Scotland is a friendly international conference for anyone working in UX, service design or other digital specialisms
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
Kate Raworth @kateraworth.bsky.social Author of Doughnut Economics, Co-founder of Doughnut Economics Action Lab, Senior Teaching Fellow at Oxford Uni Environmental Change Institute. doughnuteconomics.org
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.
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
Sophie Dennis @sophiedennis.bsky.social Head of User-Centred Design & Product @MadeTech. ex @ukhsa @nhsdigital @cxpartners @dwpdigital. Devon exile in Yorkshire. #sophiesthatux she/her