Imran Hussain

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

One week left to join this hack day! Be there or be square. 🎟️: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/connecting... #hack #DesignSystem #government

The GOV.UK Design System is joining up with MoJ Digital to run a second 'Connecting Design Systems' Hack Day. 🗓️ 10 February, 10am-1pm GMT, online Featuring: • Recap of 1st hack • How MoJ built the Reuse Library • Ideation and prototyping 🎟️ Grab a ticket: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/connecting...

I wrote a blog post after running some service pattern hackdays for @govstack.bsky.social. 'A recipe for Service Patterns' imranhussain.uk/a-recipe-for... #UX #UI #ServicePatterns #hack #co-design #Gov

The next #DesignSystemChat is on 🗓️ Weds 10 December 2025, 11am-12pm GMT We'll be workshopping the 'Get Feedback' component and seeing if we can improve it. 🎟️ Grab a ticket here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/design-sys... #DesignSystem #services #UX #design

👂 We want to hear from team in wider government about how they use the GOV•UK Design System and GOV•UK FrontEnd. Any feedback will help us support teams better in the future. 💬 Join the discussion here: github.com/alphagov/gov...

Join the Service Patterns Hack Day 2 to co-design and smash (stress-test) service patterns, including: • E-signature • Wallet • Payment 🗓️ Thursday 27 Nov 2025, 2pm-4.30pm GMT 🎟️ Tickets: www.eventbrite.com/e/service-pa...

I'm helping GovStack plan and facilitate some of their Hack Days. Join the first session to help design the following open-source Service Patterns: • GovChat, Scheduling, and Admin Interfaces 🗓️ Wednesday 19 November 2025, 10am GMT 🎟️ Read more and grab a ticket: www.eventbrite.com/e/service-pa...

Hallo! The #GOV.UKDesignSystem team are looking for feedback on adding rounded corners to buttons, which we think will improve the usability of the component. You can see and comment on our proposal on GitHub discussions: github.com/alphagov/gov... Please take 3 mins to feed back. 🙌Danke, Imran

Work in or around the #PublicSector? Fancy a breakfast time natter, and optional co-working day? The last 3 #OneTeamGov North #Manchester meetups of 2025 are on Tuesday: 🐝 21 October, 🐝 18 November, 🐝 16 December. Sign up via www.eventbrite.com/o/hosted-by-...

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 🙂

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

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

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…

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 📝