Co-founder and CEO, Zinc Innovation Partners - helping turn science into real-world change. Fomerly Demos, UAL, MMHPI, No10. Adviser at Future Governance Forum, Family Business UK, Door10 Recruitment. Writes at https://howtorunacountry.substack.com/
Data/govt etc freelancer gavinfreeguard.com
Starting @sotf.org.uk
@connectedbydata.org, Data Bites @publicdigital.bsky.social, @instituteforgovernment.org.uk, Think Digital Partners, @kinship.works, @transformgovtalks.bsky.social
Pic @paulclarke.com
A new think tank for public servants and others who believe data, digital, openness and innovation can deliver better policy, better services and better outcomes for people. Established by @gavinfreeguard.com.
sotf.org.uk
Politics Lecturer Cardiff University & Fellow Edinburgh University.
Political Psychology 🧠 & Public Opinion.
https://jaclarner.github.io/jaclarner/
Designing digital products and inclusive services that help people to live and work better. Health, research, charity, public and education. We run #CampDigital
Ripples: Bristol is the conference for people who build, lead, and deliver great digital services and products.
Formerly, Agile in the City: Bristol
https://bristol.ripple.events/
FrameLab is a newsletter about political language and the ideological structures that shape perception. We deconstruct propaganda to help you defend democracy.
Founded by @gilduran.com and @george-lakoff.com
New leadership for Wales 🏴
Arwain Cymru o'r newydd ✊
Hyrwyddwyd gan/Promoted by Plaid Cymru, Tŷ Gwynfor, Caerdydd, CF10 4AL.
Trawsnewid gwasanaethau cyhoeddus ar gyfer Cymru fodern. Cynllun ar gyfer cyflawni cyn #Senedd2026.
Transforming public services for a modern Wales. A blueprint for delivery ahead of #Senedd2026.
https://transform.wales
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
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
MD @Nexer_Digital.com
Interests veer
wildly from pop culture and TV/film nostalgia, to LGBTQ+, Eurovision and digital inclusion. Cumbrian, in Stockport, working for Sweden via Macclesfield
Sociologist. Musician. Technologist. Dad.
Current side project: randomthebook.com
Information designer and co-design practitioner. I help organisations build the digital capability to design better services for the people they serve
workplace bez. doing product & strategy bits thru https://boringmagi.cc. more about me at https://visitmy.website/about
Hello! I'm a bot by @jonodrew. I retweet weeknotes
Service designer, tinkerer and generally just getting in the way, UK Gov. #weeknotes
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
Service designer @ Public Digital + bicyclist
Senior content designer in UK government. Creator of accessiblenumbers.com. Dyscalculia Network adult advisor. Writes and talks about living with #dyscalculia and maths anxiety.
Work with me. lauraparker.design
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
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
We want a fairer, more sustainable Wales where everyone has a voice that's heard. Come and join us!
https://linktr.ee/copronetwales
User research and design in government | #UserResearchInWales community lead. I want to make things better for people through design research, inclusive design and co-design 🌈
📍 London / Wales 🏴
https://medium.com/@gabim_e
Canolfan Gwasanaethau Cyhoeddus Digidol - building better public services for Wales 🏴
www.gwasanaethaucyhoeddusdigidol.llyw.cymru
www.digitalpublicservices.gov.wales
Exeter | Director - Public Sector Practice @ Torchbox
Often to be found looking for a snack and/or saying pspsps to the nearest available cat. Always have too many tabs open.
Director at Public Digital, supporting organisations through radical transformation. Spent 20+ year in UK LocalGov, and 6 years at Placecube working with councils to co-design and develop an open source SaaS digital platform.
Researcher, facilitator & cultural strategist passionate about social causes and meaningful change. I work across systemic boundaries whenever possible to build bridges, nurture relationships, and aim for better outcomes for people. Glasgow based
Articles, essays, papers, artworks and news stories on digital media, digital culture, and media arts - also mirrored at: criticaldigitalmedia.tumblr.com
by @therourke.net (also see @additivism.org)
UX Designer + Mentor + Foodie + Homie. 💛 Corgis, floral therapy, books, drag queens, no fucks given. 🍀🏀 Celtics fan.
📍 South San Francisco, CA
👩🏻💻 https://conniechen.design/ (🚨Actively looking🚨)
☕️ https://buymeacoffee.com/conniechiiiwa
Research and policy adviser www.abdconsultancy.co.uk
Futures of work, digital welfare state, tech ethics, public sector innovation
Also cats, telly, general silliness
Now with added newsletter! https://www.abdconsultancy.co.uk/digital-welfare-state
Design leadership — writing a book called Strong Design.
Partner at Impossible Ideas | Founded FutureGov | Hackney ex-pat | #utb
👋 We’re People of Research - a global hybrid community connecting researchers across the tech industry, from UX Research to Behavioral Science. Join over 1500 researchers from +60 countries to connect, collaborate, and grow. peopleofresearch.com
Freelance content designer currently working with Public Digital. Author of the novel, A is for Angelica. Sender of newsletters. 💌
Freelance work: verymeta.com
Fiction: iainbroome.com
Blog and newsletter: clearlanguage.club
Musings about Design & Product. Currently at Zillow, Design Tech & AI.
Martyn. Digital swiss army knife. Puts the 'ux' in 'deluxe'. Today is anything can happen day: https://youtube.com/watch?v=06RgMvqvZg4
Multi-award winning journalist and author based in Cardiff.
I conduct investigative journalism and help people better understand Wales/Cymru.
You sign up to my newsletter here: willhaywardwales.substack.com
Columnist at The Guardian.
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
Center for Civic Design. A Web for Everyone. plain language. storytelling. democracy
On a good day, I make the web more awesome. On a bad day, I just make it suck less.
Pointing out the mistakes the media make about devolution across Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. your favourite policy wonks favourite policy wonk. not legal advice. For new articles tag us/ email: thatsdevolved@gmail.com
Senior Content Designer working on government services, fighting the good UX fight.
Product lead in UK gov. Principal percussionist of The Flowers Band (GB National Champions ‘24). Prolific knitter. She/her
We are Careful Trouble. We are a research studio and a social enterprise, helping make technologies work better for more people, more of the time.
🌍 carefultrouble.net
Taking a break from social media
Service designer at Social Care Wales
Anghynhadledd i bobl sydd â diddordeb mewn gwella gwasanaethau cyhoeddus Cymru
The unconference for people interested in government & public services in Wales 🏴
https://www.govcamp.cymru/
Making and mending networks and knowledge. Working and thinking at wrecka.ge, building at Unbreaking.org.
Cofounded the Covid Tracking Project, previously OpenNews, old web nonsense.
writes citationneeded.news • runs @web3isgoinggreat.com and @followthecrypto.org • tech researcher and cryptocurrency industry critic • software engineer • wikipedian
support my work: citationneeded.news/signup
links: mollywhite.net/linktree
💗💜💙
Situationist Cybernetics. Researching AI & Culture at the University of Cambridge Digital Humanities. Affiliated Researcher, Machine Visual Culture Research Group (Max Planck Institute, Rome). Aim to be kind. cyberneticforests.com
We’re the Royal National Institute of Blind People.
Profile pic: Our logo, bold black capital letters spelling RNIB, with a bold pink underline.
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.
Data nerd/wonk. Founder of Connected by Data, campaigning for communities to have a powerful say over data and AI.
Into trans rights, neurodiversity, board games, lego, dogs, spreadsheets.
www.jenitennison.com
Interested in more human ways to govern our lives together, and how technology can help. Blog: https://medium.com/@jamestplunkett 🏳️⚧️
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.
Generalist civic technologist (& final year DPhil). Principal consultant. Norwich with a cargo bike. Greyhound pictures extra.
Head of User-Centred Design & Product @MadeTech. ex @ukhsa @nhsdigital @cxpartners @dwpdigital. Devon exile in Yorkshire. #sophiesthatux she/her
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
Design (particularly of the digi-gov variety), books and brunch (usually from NE England). Brits think I sound Kiwi, Kiwis think I sound English. Links-a-plenty, views my own. https://vickyteinaki.com
Usually wrong. Never done.
rogerswannell.com
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
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 🌈 she
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.
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/
Ursine Plenipotentiary. Defrocked astrophysicist. Aire échta for hire.
Official sponsor of the 🐻 emoji
“O fish, are you constant to the old covenant?”
Was @marxculture on Twitter
Co-author of “Writing is Designing”. Content design + product UX in San Francisco. Pencil podcaster, zine maker, cat petter and Star Trek watcher. Red hot like pizza supper. Black lives still matter. He/him. http://andy.wtf
Content stuff - writing, design, strategy and operations. Manchester, England. www.usefulwords.co.uk
DMs not in use.
Digital Education at University of Bristol. Digital Accessibility & Students as creators. Views my own.
Sci-Fi n' Horror n' Comics oh my!
Video games on easy mode.
Eclectic music tastes.
He/Him, cishet, jaded.
Punch up, not down. Bigots begone.
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.
Works @Promocymru Development, Digital, Design. Writes a fair bit. Moving through dog walking, climbing, BJJ.
Design Leader:
Service & Systems Design
Keeping digital health and care human and joining it up
Systems thinker and changer
himalmandalia.medium.com
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.
Founder of @theschoolofgood
Chief bean-wrangler @brodbox
Ex-Design Director of the UK Gov.
Proudly dyslexic & non-binary 🌈 they/he
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
A vinyl record buyer, a bad cap wearer, a designer of content, a he/him/they/them. a poo picker up of Murdo the dog. A helper at We Are Content Club, a place for all sorts of content designers.
Lead Interaction Designer at NHS England. Generally designing, prototyping, coding & problem solving. Often drinking a disproportionate amount of tea in rainy Manchester.
Director @publicdigitalhq, feminist, fond of swimming in cold water, alumni @IIPP
Content Designer in local government.
Interested in digital accessibility.
Like music, books, food, running, cats and shenanigans.
he / him
User centred design in government. parkrun tourist A4418. Director of Digital and Tech for Kingston and Sutton councils.
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
We help organisations get better at designing and delivering services that work for their users
Run by Sarah Drummond and Lou Downe
good.services
He/him. From Bridgwater, in Bristol. Writer, editor, content designer. Ghost stories, films. No alt text = no repost. Not here for politics. Linktree: https://linktr.ee/raynewman Header: my book Intervals of Darkness https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DDR8X9QY
Dyfal Donc a Dyr y Garreg.
Persistent tapping will break the stone.
#IStillBelieveInDigitalTransformation
Own views - mostly about:
Cymraeg / Welsh 🏴
User-centred services for public good
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
Content/UX and contemporary archaeology. Human/dog mom. She/her.
Allergic to unwanted advice.
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.
I help multidisciplinary teams deliver services in a user centred way.
Anagram of Amnesia.
We design, build and run digital public services that make people's lives better.
dxw is employee owned.
Find out more about us 👉 https://linktr.ee/_dxw
Humanist, agilist, ale-ist. DOGS. Sometimes, I write things down at jamiearnold.com.
Founder, Public Digital. Co-author of Bluffocracy. Still Countdown's most rubbish champion.
