Mike Gallagher
@mikegallagher.bsky.social
I dunno. Also: Lead designer for the NHS App.
a weeknote about different (perhaps conflicting) design paradigms, trying to not destroy trust, and watching people's hands.
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Mike Gallagher: Fear of flying
Weeknote, w/c 3 November 2025
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November 9, 2025 at 12:54 PM
a weeknote about different (perhaps conflicting) design paradigms, trying to not destroy trust, and watching people's hands.
mikegallagher.org/posts/fear-o...
mikegallagher.org/posts/fear-o...
we've been working on a set of design principles for our teams. they aren't anything radical, they are just tailored for our space, with clinical safety concepts baked in. hopefully they are useful to other people.
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Mike Gallagher: Design principles for teams working in healthcare
An attempt to define what we mean when we say a “good user experience” in the context of the NHS
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November 2, 2025 at 12:12 PM
we've been working on a set of design principles for our teams. they aren't anything radical, they are just tailored for our space, with clinical safety concepts baked in. hopefully they are useful to other people.
mikegallagher.org/posts/design...
mikegallagher.org/posts/design...
a short-ish weeknote about useful ways to make things and demonstrate ideas.
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Mike Gallagher: Effective labour
Weeknote, w/c 20 October 2025
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October 26, 2025 at 3:45 PM
a short-ish weeknote about useful ways to make things and demonstrate ideas.
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a weeknote supporting teams, being a therapist, and people peopling around
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Mike Gallagher: The work is (often) people
Weeknote, w/c 13 October 2025
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October 19, 2025 at 3:02 PM
a weeknote supporting teams, being a therapist, and people peopling around
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a weeknote, in which i try to avoid being a cliche while taking inspiration from japanese cultural practices (i know). also: apps and design systems and noodles.
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Mike Gallagher: Shokunin
Weeknote, w/c 6 October 2025
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October 12, 2025 at 1:16 PM
a weeknote, in which i try to avoid being a cliche while taking inspiration from japanese cultural practices (i know). also: apps and design systems and noodles.
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mikegallagher.org/posts/shokun...
a weeknote, post-@sdingov.bsky.social, about trauma-informed design and interfaces and what is owed to the public
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Mike Gallagher: Interfaces, morality, and care
Weeknote, w/c 21 September 2025
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September 21, 2025 at 11:57 AM
a weeknote, post-@sdingov.bsky.social, about trauma-informed design and interfaces and what is owed to the public
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mikegallagher.org/posts/interf...
do i know anyone at SDinGov? (i am at SDinGov)
September 17, 2025 at 7:31 PM
do i know anyone at SDinGov? (i am at SDinGov)
a weeknote, extending @visitmy.website's post from earlier in the week; also: actor-network theory and contributing to greater collective super-consciousness (i.e. blogging lol).
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Mike Gallagher: Cognition in the flotilla
Weeknote, w/c 11 August 2025
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August 17, 2025 at 2:53 PM
a weeknote, extending @visitmy.website's post from earlier in the week; also: actor-network theory and contributing to greater collective super-consciousness (i.e. blogging lol).
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a weeknote. like, an actual weeknote covering most of what happened this week.
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Mike Gallagher: A million little pieces
Weeknote, w/c 4 August 2025
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August 10, 2025 at 1:57 PM
a weeknote. like, an actual weeknote covering most of what happened this week.
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a weeknote. this week, amid the summer holiday slowdown, most of my time was spent devising different versions for how new work should proceed, which is to say: i wrote a bunch of project briefs for the same subject.
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Mike Gallagher: Speculative futures
Weeknote, w/c 28 July 2025
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August 3, 2025 at 1:44 PM
a weeknote. this week, amid the summer holiday slowdown, most of my time was spent devising different versions for how new work should proceed, which is to say: i wrote a bunch of project briefs for the same subject.
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mikegallagher.org/posts/specul...
extending the blogpost @frankieroberto.com and i published on monday about the NHS prototype kit, some more thoughts on designers working in code
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Mike Gallagher: Know your medium
The benefits of designing in code
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July 27, 2025 at 12:12 PM
extending the blogpost @frankieroberto.com and i published on monday about the NHS prototype kit, some more thoughts on designers working in code
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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.
digital.nhs.uk
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-...
a weeknote, back to work, trying to make sense of new plans
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Mike Gallagher: Back to work: parsing the NHS 10 Year Plan
Weeknote, w/c 14 July 2025
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July 20, 2025 at 3:35 PM
a weeknote, back to work, trying to make sense of new plans
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a weeknote (yes, again) about people getting excited to make big change happen, and why that is often incredibly difficult to act on.
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Mike Gallagher: Resisting entropy
Weeknote, w/c 23 June 2025
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June 28, 2025 at 5:35 PM
a weeknote (yes, again) about people getting excited to make big change happen, and why that is often incredibly difficult to act on.
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not a weeknote (maybe i am done with the format? i dunno). instead, some notes on how i think about what one gets up to at work, distinguishing between the things you make and the things you learn.
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Mike Gallagher: The work and your work
In praise of the personal development plan (sort of)
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June 22, 2025 at 1:19 PM
not a weeknote (maybe i am done with the format? i dunno). instead, some notes on how i think about what one gets up to at work, distinguishing between the things you make and the things you learn.
mikegallagher.org/posts/the-wo...
mikegallagher.org/posts/the-wo...
a weeknote on how enjoyable it is to be more involved with design work than i am normally able to pull off (shocking, i know)
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Mike Gallagher: Dance of the design manager
Weeknote, w/c 9 June 2025
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June 15, 2025 at 1:29 PM
a weeknote on how enjoyable it is to be more involved with design work than i am normally able to pull off (shocking, i know)
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mikegallagher.org/posts/dance-...
a weeknote on interoperability, broadly considered (with apologies to john green).
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Mike Gallagher: Everything is interoperability
Weeknote, w/c 2 June 2025
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June 8, 2025 at 1:09 PM
a weeknote on interoperability, broadly considered (with apologies to john green).
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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.
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a bit late, but another weeknote, mostly pondering why i like a particular quote so much (and service design).
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Mike Gallagher: The liminal spaces of service design
Weeknote, w/c 12 May 2025
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May 19, 2025 at 7:07 AM
a bit late, but another weeknote, mostly pondering why i like a particular quote so much (and service design).
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a weeknote, wondering what job titles say to other people and wondering if it matters
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Mike Gallagher: Weeknote, w/c 5 May 2025
What’s in a name?
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May 11, 2025 at 4:03 PM
a weeknote, wondering what job titles say to other people and wondering if it matters
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a weeknote, sort of, in which i try to work out how to be a designer who still designs things, which is more difficult than one might think.
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Mike Gallagher: Weeknote, w/c 28 April 2025
Sometimes I still design things. Is that a problem?
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May 5, 2025 at 6:44 PM
a weeknote, sort of, in which i try to work out how to be a designer who still designs things, which is more difficult than one might think.
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a weeknote summing up some recent reading
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Mike Gallagher: Weeknote, w/c 7 April 2025
Recent reading
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April 13, 2025 at 4:07 PM
a weeknote summing up some recent reading
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a weeknote that could have been titled "what is the NHS app, really?"
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Mike Gallagher: Weeknote, w/c 31 March 2025
Simplicity can be deceptive
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April 6, 2025 at 10:46 AM
a weeknote that could have been titled "what is the NHS app, really?"
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a weeknote on trade-offs
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Mike Gallagher: Weeknote, w/c 17 March 2025
Trade-offs
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March 23, 2025 at 2:33 PM
a weeknote on trade-offs
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