Ralph
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Pobody’s nerfect
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"Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is basically a sentient Facebook page"
@ryanhatesthis.bsky.social nails it once again in the latest @garbageday.email newsletter
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@ryanhatesthis.bsky.social nails it once again in the latest @garbageday.email newsletter
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The Great Dumbening
Read to the end for it’s Tronin’ time
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October 14, 2025 at 10:16 AM
"Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is basically a sentient Facebook page"
@ryanhatesthis.bsky.social nails it once again in the latest @garbageday.email newsletter
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@ryanhatesthis.bsky.social nails it once again in the latest @garbageday.email newsletter
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Week note – more about personalising health recommendations and a little bit about AI
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Limbic Öpik – Ralph Hawkins
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October 11, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Week note – more about personalising health recommendations and a little bit about AI
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Week note:
- co‑ordinating teams
- definitions of personalisations
- co-design
- health kiosks
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- co‑ordinating teams
- definitions of personalisations
- co-design
- health kiosks
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High pressure days – Ralph Hawkins
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October 4, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Week note:
- co‑ordinating teams
- definitions of personalisations
- co-design
- health kiosks
ralphhawkins.co.uk/posts/weekno...
- co‑ordinating teams
- definitions of personalisations
- co-design
- health kiosks
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Week note – forcing myself to design with constraints I’ve made up
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Fictional constraints – Ralph Hawkins
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September 28, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Week note – forcing myself to design with constraints I’ve made up
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If you’re cooking and you want to make sure it turns into a duck, your oven needs to be hot enough to trigger the mallard reaction
September 9, 2025 at 7:20 PM
If you’re cooking and you want to make sure it turns into a duck, your oven needs to be hot enough to trigger the mallard reaction
Week note – Nexialist:
- simplicity vs authenticity
- anticipating edge cases
- observing success
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- simplicity vs authenticity
- anticipating edge cases
- observing success
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Nexialist – Ralph Hawkins
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August 18, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Week note – Nexialist:
- simplicity vs authenticity
- anticipating edge cases
- observing success
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- simplicity vs authenticity
- anticipating edge cases
- observing success
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Week note – Doing the hard work to pretend it’s simple
Using prototypes to illustrate what we’re working towards and worrying about the level of fiction required.
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Using prototypes to illustrate what we’re working towards and worrying about the level of fiction required.
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Doing the hard work to pretend it’s simple – Ralph Hawkins
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August 9, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Week note – Doing the hard work to pretend it’s simple
Using prototypes to illustrate what we’re working towards and worrying about the level of fiction required.
ralphhawkins.co.uk/posts/weekno...
Using prototypes to illustrate what we’re working towards and worrying about the level of fiction required.
ralphhawkins.co.uk/posts/weekno...
Aesop Rocky is the best smelling rapper
July 23, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Aesop Rocky is the best smelling rapper
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a new blog post from me and @frankieroberto.com on the NHS' design matters blog on why we're putting a lot of effort into both improving the NHS prototyping kit and making it easier for designers to use it
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Why we are reinvesting in the NHS prototype kit - NHS England Digital
Frankie and Mike explain why we revived the NHS prototype kit, the benefits of prototyping in code and how digital teams in the NHS can get started using it.
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July 21, 2025 at 11:19 AM
a new blog post from me and @frankieroberto.com on the NHS' design matters blog on why we're putting a lot of effort into both improving the NHS prototyping kit and making it easier for designers to use it
digital.nhs.uk/blog/design-...
digital.nhs.uk/blog/design-...
Tim Berners-lee’s favourite sitcom is My Name is URL
July 20, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Tim Berners-lee’s favourite sitcom is My Name is URL
Week note – the design of systems – all jokes are the same, just with different words.
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The design of a system – Ralph Hawkins
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July 20, 2025 at 6:48 AM
Week note – the design of systems – all jokes are the same, just with different words.
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Welcome to the new Section 28. Unofficially implemented by Reform. So angry I could scream right now.
As a reminder, Kent County Council, despite Section 28 being taken off legislative books in 2003, as voted for by parliament, maintained their own version until 2010.
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As a reminder, Kent County Council, despite Section 28 being taken off legislative books in 2003, as voted for by parliament, maintained their own version until 2010.
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Kent council bans transgender books in children’s library section
KCC says the move came after a
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July 4, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Welcome to the new Section 28. Unofficially implemented by Reform. So angry I could scream right now.
As a reminder, Kent County Council, despite Section 28 being taken off legislative books in 2003, as voted for by parliament, maintained their own version until 2010.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
As a reminder, Kent County Council, despite Section 28 being taken off legislative books in 2003, as voted for by parliament, maintained their own version until 2010.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Week note – assumptions we’ve made and other people have made about how to help people improve their health
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Tangentland – Ralph Hawkins
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June 22, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Week note – assumptions we’ve made and other people have made about how to help people improve their health
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We need to be better at having conversations about the equity and justice implications of our use of AI.
I'm working on a set of 10 equity and justice reflection prompts for teams who are using or considering AI.
(prompts in thread)
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I'm working on a set of 10 equity and justice reflection prompts for teams who are using or considering AI.
(prompts in thread)
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10 equity and justice prompts for AI
We need to be better at having conversations about the equity and justice implications of our use of AI. I'm working on a set of 10 equity and justice reflection prompts for teams who are using or…
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June 3, 2025 at 8:14 AM
We need to be better at having conversations about the equity and justice implications of our use of AI.
I'm working on a set of 10 equity and justice reflection prompts for teams who are using or considering AI.
(prompts in thread)
claragreo.com/posts/10-equ...
I'm working on a set of 10 equity and justice reflection prompts for teams who are using or considering AI.
(prompts in thread)
claragreo.com/posts/10-equ...
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@danhon.com 's back, and thank you Dan, this chimes hard in NHS land - newsletter.danhon.com/archive/s19e...
s19e11: Your Model is Naive and it’s Not The Territory
0.0 Context Setting Friday, May 30, at the Code for America Summit in a hotel in Washington, D.C. I am in, fittingly, a hallway. I am also jetlagged. There...
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May 31, 2025 at 12:25 PM
@danhon.com 's back, and thank you Dan, this chimes hard in NHS land - newsletter.danhon.com/archive/s19e...
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a weeknote, continuing on from last week. something to do with frames of reference and navigating conflicting worldviews.
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Mike Gallagher: The sum of its parts?
Weeknote, w/c 19 May 2025
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May 25, 2025 at 4:01 PM
a weeknote, continuing on from last week. something to do with frames of reference and navigating conflicting worldviews.
mikegallagher.org/posts/the-su...
mikegallagher.org/posts/the-su...