I was so stoked to finally run something with @claragt.bsky.social . We’ve been looking to work together for ages and I finally got the chance today @sdingov.bsky.social It was such a deliberate, thoughtful and intentional crowd as well. A true pleasure all round!

Come and join the conversation in our monthly #DesignSystemChat. This month we'll be talking about #ServicePatterns. 🗓️ Tuesday 30 September, 2pm-3pm BST 🎟️ Read more and grab a ticket here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/design-sys...

Have you got 30 minutes in the next few weeks to speak to me about the GOV.UK Design System community. If you do, sign-up for an informal chat here: forms.gle/ASfUpvpgT1yM... Danke 🙌

UKGovCamp 2026 ( #ukgc26 ) will be in #Birmingham on Saturday 17 January 2026. We need a venue: 1️⃣ for 250 people, 2️⃣ 8 breakout rooms, 3️⃣ wheelchair accessible. @imhuyorks.bsky.social is leading the search. Please share and reply with ideas 🙂

Hi everyone, I’m looking to improve the process of joining the GOV.‌UK Design System community. I’d like to speak to people who have started using the design system in the last year. If you can spare 30 minutes for an informal chat, I’d love to talk! 💬 Sign-up:https://forms.gle/Pr334RMFYUWV8ENP9 .

Hey all, Sign up for July's #DesignSystemChat, running Weds 16 July, 10.30am BST This month we'll discuss our events/ workshop offer: ▪️ What's our current offer? ▪️ What do you attend? ▪️ What would you like to see more of? 🎟️ You can grab a ticket here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/design-sys...

Really excited about doing a #Community themed UX talk at #UXScotland tomorrow 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿. 🧑🏽‍💻 I’ll be writing it up after the event, so keep an eye out for post with the fully intended tongue-in-cheek title: “With Great Community, Comes Great Responsibility”

Heading up to Edinburgh for #UXScotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 . Gimme a shout if you’re also about in Edinburgh this week!

💥 New Blog Post 💥 The psychology of scaling community, featuring: • What do 'diffusion of responsibility' and 'social loafing' mean? • How do they impact team dynamics and communities? • What can you do about them? Read here: imranhussain.uk/the-psycholo... #community #psychology #dynamics

Looking forward to speaking to Content Club folks about considering compounding barriers & intersectionality when we think about accessibility. Thank you @niacampbell.bsky.social @adrianortega.bsky.social @contentdesign.london for organising!

What’s up Bluesky, I’m starting to look for my next professional opportunity. If you are looking for someone community, co-design or collaboration shaped, please get in touch 💬

The GOV.UK Design System team running our first install-a-thon on Thursday 24 April 1pm-3pm BST. It’s a new session format where we will support people to upgrade their version of GOV.UK FrontEnd to the latest version (5.9.0). 🎟️ Sign up here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/install-a-... Thanks, Imran

So I'm starting to line up the talks this year. The next one will be at "Hey! All Day" in Leeds, on Thursday 1 May. I'll be doing a lightning version of my new talk on community ethics: With Great Community Comes Great Responsibility 😜 #talk #community #ethics #Hey!AllDay

Had the pleasure of doing a talk with @calvinlau.bsky.social for #ContentClub earlier this week. We talked about spreading content design skills across our team, to enable Calvin to focus on the areas where his expertise can deliver the most value.

I’m doing a talk with @calvinlau.bsky.social for the Content Club tomorrow. We’ll be talking about ‘bringing everyone into content design’. Grab a ticket below 👇

I'm running some 🗺️ #MapsInServices sessions for #ServicesWeek 2025! Running 17-21 March, there will be 5 sessions, running from 9.30am-10.30am Monday-Friday. We'll be aiming to draft a page of Map Design principles for the GOV.UK Service Manual. 🎟️ Sign up: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/maps-in-se...

Our next #DesignSystemChat is 🗓️ Weds 26 February 2025 11am-12pm It’s open to anyone wanting to talk public sector design systems and design. Agenda: • Essential component criteria • FrontEnd install-a-thons? • File upload component • Lean Coffee 🎟️ Sign up: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/design-sys...

Finally got to write up my thoughts on UK GovCamp 2025, it was a bit of a different vibe for me this year: imranhussain.uk/reflecting-o... #UKGC25 #UKGovCamp @ukgovcamp.bsky.social

I heard a rumour that the #MapsInServices collab was coming back

The first #DesignSystemChat of 2025, hosted by the GOV.UK Design System team is on 29 January 2025, 11am-12pm. Featuring: • Annual UX/FrontEnd survey • WCAG 2.2 video • Connecting DS hackathon • JavaScript API • 💬 What are you leaving behind in 2024? 🎟️ Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/d…

At @ukgovcamp.bsky.social, I led a session to design a memorial sticker for @vickytnz.bsky.social, based on a blog she wrote. I've added the ideas from the session to a Padlet board. Feel free to add some thoughts and sticker ideas: govukdesignsystem.padlet.org/ImHuYorks/vi...

I'm looking to do more UX and community talks in 2025. Which conferences/events should I go for? Can anyone point me towards any opportunities please? #PublicSpeaking #talks #UX #community

Caught up with the fab @cathydutton.bsky.social, for the first time in ages today. It’s always great to see a talented practitioner step up into the Senior Civil Service. Gives me a bit of hope when you see some of the good ones make it through.

Hello 🙂 I'm looking for my next public sector role and would appreciate your support. Let me know if you hear of anything or wanna catch up. #OpenToWork 💼 Preferably agile delivery manager. 📜 Open to contract, permanent or temporary roles. 🌎 Remote or based in Manchester, London or Sheffield.

I wrote a first draft for a tribute to @vickytnz.bsky.social we're hoping to do at @ukgovcamp.bsky.social 2025. imranhussain.uk/remembering-...

How do people with multiple areas of expertise navigate professional development and career progression? I’m looking at some courses and plotting my career journey and it’s complicated. Do I do community stuff, L&D lead stuff, facilitation, or org design and culture change? #career #development

Show and tells done, and the #DSDay24 hack is all wrapped up. You can see some of the ideas from our linking design systems hack on GitHub discussions: github.com/alphagov/gov... More information on what each group worked on here: govukdesignsystem.padlet.org/ImHuYorks/li... #hack #community #DS

Work is in full flow during the #DSDay24 hack. Some really nice thoughts coming together #community #DesignSystem #hackday

Some of the #DSDay24 hackers are really cutting loose

The #DSDay24 hackday has been running this morning and the pitches were really exciting 🤩 #hackday #DesignSystem #community

Just GDS doing GDS things….

I wrote a blog about moving the design system’s events strategy to more hackathon type events ahead of the #DesignSystemDay hack this week. Read ‘getting back to making’ here: imranhussain.uk/getting-back... #community #DSDay24 #hackday

I made a gate today 🪚🗜️🔨

Well.. if nothing else, at least the next 4 years is going to bring us a sensational period of collective shitposting 🤣

I wrote up a workshop that I delivered for the fabulous @dxw.bsky.social design team last month: imranhussain.uk/workshopping... It was refreshing to get back into consulting and work on new challenges. Hit me up if you need any help with your community 🙋‍♂️ #community #cmgr #culture #CoP #design

I've been talking about building a blog/work site for a few years now. Finally got round to completing a v1: imranhussain.uk Any feedback or help with making it better would be appreciated. Never built a site before. At least I have a place of my own for blogs now 📝

We're running an hackathon for the 3rd #DesignSystemDay. 🔄 We'll investigate 'bringing the GOV.UK Design System closer to other gov design systems'. 🗓️ Thursday 28 November, 9am-5pm Hybrid: Face-to-face in Whitechapel, Online via Zoom 🎟️ Grab a ticket: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/design-sys... #DSday24

New blog post from moi: How Design System Day makes our community stronger It’s a #DesignSystemDay write up and a little bit on how it fits with our community strategy. Take a read if you have 4 mins spare: gds.blog.gov.uk/2024/10/31/h... #DSDay24 #community #DesignSystem

NL Design Systems Week videos are live, get this on your weekend watch- list 🧑‍💻🍿

All the talks from Design System Day 2024 events have just gone live on the GDS YouTube. Check out the playlist here: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... #DSDay24

I'm reading "What's the alternative? How to write good alt text" by the Design 102 team: design102.blog.gov.uk/2022/01/14/w...

Hi, the next #DesignSystemChat is on 📆 Tuesday 29 October 2pm-3pm. It's a WCAG 2.2 special: ▶ How we’re helping users meet WCAG 2.2 ▶ How service teams are complying with WCAG 2.2 guidelines ▶ Discussion: How are you making progress towards WCAG 2.2? 🎟 Sign up: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/design-sys...

The lovely organisers of @ukgovcamp.bsky.social are looking for a new venue for the next gathering...can you help? www.ukgovcamp.com/2024/10/08/u...

Very rarely do I agree with every point someone makes in a blog post… however, I almost strained my neck nodding along to this one.

A shout-out, should they still be necessary, for the GOV.UK prototype kit. Such an amazing open-source toolset for non-specialists to try things out. The likes of Mozilla aside, I can't see many organisations outside the public sector putting such high-quality things out there for free.

Oh man, so many friends and colleagues are speaking at #SDinGov this year. I’m so gutted I’m missing it in person. Can’t wait for those videos 📽️

Highlight of day 2 #SDinGov was learning from forms and interaction design masters @cjforms.bsky.social and @vickytnz.bsky.social. In their session on building truly accessible forms, we looked at the challenges around collecting phone numbers, and there was a surprising amount to consider.

The next GOV.UK #DesignSystemChat is running at 🗓️ 11am on Thursday 25 September 2024 Featuring: Show & tell: What we've been working on Discussion: What are your design system training needs? 🎟️ Sign up: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/design-sys...

I've been following #SDinGov posts and I've got really bad FOMO. Please posts your summaries of sessions and key takeaways!

A starter pack for adding folks who work in, with, adjacent to etc.. local government digital and transformation go.bsky.app/4Dx5Coq