Design Research Starter Pack
This is a collection of people on Bluesky interested in design research: designerly ways of knowing, making, and researching. Do you want to be on this list, or want to nominate someone? Please tell me!
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@sanderhermsen.bsky.social
@tombieling.bsky.social
Professor of Design Theory at HfG Offenbach. New books: Design (&) Activism / Inklusion als Entwurf / Gender (&) Design / Specology / NERD
@mara-ulloa.bsky.social
🙋🏻♀️| NSF GRFP Fellow & PhD Candidate 👩🏻💻| HCI, health, & ML + design research 🛜| www.MaraUlloa.com 💭| Advised by Maia Jacobs 📍l Northwestern, Computer Science
@peterdalsgaard.bsky.social
Professor of Interaction Design & Director of the Centre for Digital Creativity at Aarhus University. Phone +45 20652942
@yaronmeron.com
Design researcher & lecturer @ University of Sydney | ‘Resting’ design professional | Photographer, bad guitarist & some other things.
@ladylark.bsky.social
Lecturer in Design Policy and Futures Thinking based at @Imaginationlanc.bsky.social, researching technology and society, and sometimes fandom. @blackarchive.co.uk author. She/her. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2079-1658
@cybunk.bsky.social
Associate Professor in #SHS #Design #Dataviz #délibération at Telecom Paris / Institut Polytchenique de Paris Website : https://samuel-huron.github.io/ Last book : https://makingwithdata.org/ Views are my own.
@monicagomez.bsky.social
Research and co-design for social change🕵🏽♀️ Curious mind usually overthinking, questioning & experimenting👩🏽🔬 I did UX, now I’m very critical of tech🧐 MA Design for Change @UoE 🏴| Chevener 23/24 | IDI TEC 🇨🇷 📣 Inclusion, feminisms, sustainability
@martintomitsch.bsky.social
Design academic, Head of Transdisciplinary School / University of Technology Sydney, author of Designing Tomorrow, Design Think Make Break Repeat, and Making Cities Smarter
@andrewberry.bsky.social
Design research, person-centered health care, digital health. Assistant Professor in Medical Social Sciences at Northwestern University.
@graydesign.bsky.social
designer, researcher, ux; dark patterns, ethics, and technology (https://uxp2.com); associate professor and HCI/d director at IU Bloomington; they/them 🏳️🌈
@armagank.bsky.social
🔎 assistant professor of IxD 🏆 design and HCI of personal health technology 🎓 coordinator of Human-Technology Relations master track of IDE @utwente 🇳🇱 🏀 technical program co-chair of the first SportsHCI conference 💫 www.armagank.com
@carilall.bsky.social
Professor in HCI / experience design @ TU Eindhoven & Uni of Luxembourg, Author Méthodes de design UX (2018), Deputy Editor Interacting with Computers 🎈Hot air balloon pilot In 2025: TPC CHIWORK, GC SportsHCI, SC chair DIS, Steering Committee EduCHI
@thoraoffbeat.bsky.social
founder @ din dhalay + pastel everything // service design lead @ ideateinnovation.com // design researcher humming along to jaana hai nadiya ke paar portfolio: http://faizandoesthings.com newsletter: http://junglemeinmangal.co
@yektab.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in Design Management at Lancaster University. Researcher on open design and distributed value creation, design for sustainability and circular economy, and gender-sensitive design.
@idilgaziulusoy.bsky.social
#Sustainability Scientist & #Design Researcher. Associate Professor at Aalto University, Leader of NODUS #Research Group, Program Director of #Creative Sustainability master’s program. Above all, human and cat mama.
@rachelfloodheaton.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Industrial Design at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Cognitive scientist, industrial designer, & electrical engineer. I make neurally plausible computational process models of visual cognition.
@roybendor.bsky.social
I study how design can open up alternative socio-ecological possibilities. I like music. And hockey. --- Associate Professor of Critical Design, and Director of Design for Interaction masters programme at Delft University of Technology, NL
@szcpanks.bsky.social
Designer 🎨 Action Researcher 🧪 Community builder 🌻🌈❤️ and Troublemaker 🪡🌶️⚠️🪧 she/her #Healthcare #A11y #ServiceDesign on unceeded lands of the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung peoples Naarm, Melbourne
@iclanda.bsky.social
Lecturer (Assist Professor) in Systemic Design & EDI co-director @LboroDesign || Chair- International Advisory Council of Design Research Society || Academic Director @somosrelaesa
@alexhaagaard.bsky.social
Opinions = mine Shouting into the void about chronic illness, philosophy of medicine and design. If I want advice, I'll ask for it. If I want to hear about the merits of a biopsychosocial framework, my account has been hacked.
@tooooomuchtext.bsky.social
📚 Design Research & Theory 📚 | PhD. Design at @unicomplutense | PhD. History at @UAntwerpenFLW | I am kind of focus on design in the context of the Catholic Reformation (16th).
@inpettersen.bsky.social
Design research, sustainability, social practices, societal transformation, urban nature. Prof. at NTNU.
@tduscher.bsky.social
Design Research & Prof @Muthesius University of Fine Arts and Design, Focus on: Visual #Scicomm, #Informationdesign, #Designresearch, Co-Founder scicomlab.bsky.social
@reneewever.bsky.social
Prof of Industrial Design Engineering @ Linköping University | editor Journal of Design Research | TUDelft alumnus | design research | sustainability & CE | packaging & foodwaste | repair | NL/EN/SV | @jdesignresearch.bsky.social & @liudesign.bsky.social
@alisonthomson.bsky.social
Designing interactions for people with MS at QMUL investigating how health-care futures might be re-imagined through design research alisonthomson.uk
@lab4living.bsky.social
Design for life and for living. Empowering people through partnership between design and health practice and research. https://lab4living.org.uk
@laststrawberry.bsky.social
Postdoctoral researcher at @UTwente. Manipulative design and vulnerabilities. HCI, privacy and societal impact of tech. Research through care. Freak. 🏳️🌈
@jaspervankuijk.bsky.social
Design researcher at @Kau, conjurer of books and columns, moved to Sweden, recovering comedian.
@andrikos.bsky.social
💼 IxD Professor, Aalto University 🧪 UX, HCI, spirituality researcher 🎙️ ACM distinguished speaker 🛠️ Ex-SDU, -Nokia, -Philips 🎓 Alum TUe, UTEM 📣 Views my own
@ecolabs.bsky.social
Regenerative, systemic, feminist design ecologies and just (anti-fascist) transitions. https://ecolabsblog.com/
@nicolasnova.bsky.social
Anthropology of digital cultures/technologies and environmental changes, design research, design fiction. Professor at Geneva University of Art & Design (HEAD) / Managing partner girardinnova.com / posts in English et en français
@ecocene.bsky.social
Author of Design, Ecology, Politics: Towards the Ecocene (Bloomsbury). PI on Transition Templates. Working in design & energy & ecological transitions. Canadian in the UK. Speak up against genocide and white supremacy while you can. https://ecolabsblog.com
@willosborn.bsky.social
Designer, Psychologist, frustrated optimist, interested in motivation and creating meaningful companies and environments. Service and Org Design Director @ frog Design.
@arneberger.bsky.social
Professor of Human-Computer Interaction • Co-Design, Smart Things, More than Human Design • Luddite • Mountainbiker • Changing the world does not come from above or from outside. → http://arneberger.de
@codingconduct.cc
Deliberate designer & empirical philosopher of playful & engaging things. Professor @ Dyson School of Design Engineering, Imperial College. Editor-in-Chief, games.acm.org. @codingconduct@hci.social on Mastodon. https://codingconduct.cc
@iskandersmit.nl
Futures explorations Targetisnew.com - Research, experiment, co-design human-intelligent technology partnerships in Citiesofthings.org - Curating, organising responsible tech and beyond - ThingsCon https://bsky.app/profile/thingscon.org
@danlockton.com
Utrecht, Netherlands + Norwich, UK Director of the Institute for Sustainable Worlds, Norwich University of the Arts ⦿ Design—imagination—climate—futures ⦿ Imaginaries Lab http://imaginari.es ⦿ http://newmetaphors.com ⦿ he/him
@kars.leapfrog.nl
Designer turned design researcher. Postdoc at TU Delft. Exploring contestable AI. www.contestable.ai
@waag.bsky.social
Making technology & society more open, fair & inclusive | mastodon: waag@waag.social
@palakd.bsky.social
hybrid designer+researcher working with #systems & #futures. Trying to figure out renewables at an energy company. atm, ai risk, disaster mitigation. 🏳️🌈 😷 clean air advocate; board: systemic design association, prev fjord, aho_oslo.
@nbhansen.dk
Expert on Participatory Design og Cocreation. Assistant Professor @ Computer Science, Aalborg University. Lover of anything #pchardware and #pcgaming Almost too chill, definitely too tired. Check https://nbhansen.dk/ I might update it soon.
@joelangley.bsky.social
@jopas.bsky.social
A designer who would like to ensure that there remains a liveable world for our kids to enjoy @jopas@mastodon.social x.com/jopas
@chrisspeed.bsky.social
@chrisbush.bsky.social
Head of Design Group @ Nexer Bit of a geek. Loves all things inclusion. Very anti-racist.
@phillirose.bsky.social
All things service design, digital transformation, play. http://current.works and http://digitalby.design
@designresearch.works
Advocate for using Design Research to explore emerging perspectives on AI, more-than-human matters, and… pretty much anything. Watch a film about it here: https://designresearch.works/permission-to-muck-about Was @joegalen on ‘ex’ platform
@sanderhermsen.bsky.social
Behaviour Change (and) Design – Applied and fundamental research meets practice – Radboudumc and OnePlanet Research Centre, Nijmegen, NL – he/him/his – EN/NL/DE