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a weeknote about the weather and time and planning and why won't my mouth stop itching and how on earth are we going to coordinate this many teams and three guys from camberwell and context-specificity and the melting point of steel and to-do lists. mikegallagher.org/posts/this-h...

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Mike Gallagher: This heat

Weeknote, w/c 22 June 2026

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Mike Gallagher @mikegallagher.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

a weeknote, for which i spent about 2 hours trying to thinking of a decent pun-y title, but failed. anyway it is about native app interface design and organisational real estate. mikegallagher.org/posts/no-tabs/

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Mike Gallagher: No tabs?

Weeknote, w/c 15 June 2026

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Mike Gallagher @mikegallagher.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

back to something like a normal weeknote, musing on how to maintain the coherence of a thing when no one is responsible for the totality. mikegallagher.org/posts/unreci...

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Mike Gallagher: Unreciprocated responsibility

Weeknote, w/c 1 June 2026

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Mike Gallagher @mikegallagher.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

prototyping in code has a lot of benefits, but also some drawbacks. notably: how do you get a decent overview of the thing you're working on? i made a thing to help. mikegallagher.org/posts/quiver/

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Mike Gallagher: Quiver

A prototype mapping tool

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Mike Gallagher @mikegallagher.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

the second post about designerly ways of knowing, this time about what happens when you're working at the scale of a whole system. mikegallagher.org/posts/the-lo...

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Mike Gallagher: The logic of conjecture

Part 2: wicked problems at systems scale

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Mike Gallagher @mikegallagher.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

new post about the garbage can model and persistence as a design method. mikegallagher.org/posts/from-g...

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Mike Gallagher: From garbage can to compost heap

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Mike Gallagher @mikegallagher.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

a weeknote on our planning cycle, how the ways we're changing our design approach is affecting that, and some questions about the future of prototyping here mikegallagher.org/posts/becomi...

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Mike Gallagher: Becoming everyone’s problem

Weeknote, w/c 30 March 2026

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Mike Gallagher @mikegallagher.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

a weeknote, in which i try to describe our approach to creating a useful foundation to build on and the ways industry lingo pollutes meaning. a plan for a first release? yes. an MVP? not exactly. mikegallagher.org/posts/not-an...

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Mike Gallagher: Not an MVP

Weeknote, w/c 23 March 2026

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Mike Gallagher @mikegallagher.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

a weeknote about trying to express on design system through another, seeking a balance of expression (which is to say: i'm trying to figure out kotlin and material 3) mikegallagher.org/posts/channe...

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Mike Gallagher: Channeling

Weeknote, w/c 16 February 2026

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Mike Gallagher @mikegallagher.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

new post – in public: notes on working in the open mikegallagher.org/posts/in-pub...

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Mike Gallagher: In public

Notes on working in the open

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Mike Gallagher @mikegallagher.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

an attempt to articulate something hopeful in the face of a never-ending stream of horror. it felt like good time to reflect on design as politics, as someone who was born in the US and now works for the NHS. mikegallagher.org/posts/design...

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Mike Gallagher: Design is politics

Weeknote, w/c 19 January 2026

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Mike Gallagher @mikegallagher.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

a weeknote about wrapping up a phase of work, planning how we document what we've done, and reflecting on our approach to user research mikegallagher.org/posts/where-...

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Mike Gallagher: Assessing our work and approach

Weeknote, w/c 5 January 2026

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Mike Gallagher @mikegallagher.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

a weeknote, thinking about how my role has (and is) changing while we wind up an alpha about native code and design patterns mikegallagher.org/posts/recons...

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Mike Gallagher: Reconsidering my role (again, forever, apparently)

Weeknote, w/c 29 December 2025

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Mike Gallagher @mikegallagher.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

a weeknote, pondering the similarities of interfaces for data and teams, along with what they afford. mikegallagher.org/posts/APIs-a...

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Mike Gallagher: APIs all the way down

Weeknote, w/c 8 December 2025

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Mike Gallagher @mikegallagher.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

a weeknote about disconnections between the layers of the system. mikegallagher.org/posts/the-gu...

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Mike Gallagher: The guts of the machine

Weeknote, w/c 24 November 2025

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Mike Gallagher @mikegallagher.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

i work with a bunch of clinicians. they're doctors and nurses and pharmacists. i am pretty well convinced that, even though we have different job titles, we do the same thing. i am convinced we all do user-centred design. mikegallagher.org/posts/patien...

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Mike Gallagher: Patient safety is user-centred design is patient safety

On the mirroring of two disciplines

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Mike Gallagher @mikegallagher.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

a weeknote about different (perhaps conflicting) design paradigms, trying to not destroy trust, and watching people's hands. mikegallagher.org/posts/fear-o...

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Mike Gallagher: Fear of flying

Weeknote, w/c 3 November 2025

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Mike Gallagher @mikegallagher.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

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...

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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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Mike Gallagher @mikegallagher.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

a short-ish weeknote about useful ways to make things and demonstrate ideas. mikegallagher.org/posts/effect...

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Mike Gallagher: Effective labour

Weeknote, w/c 20 October 2025

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Mike Gallagher @mikegallagher.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

a weeknote supporting teams, being a therapist, and people peopling around mikegallagher.org/posts/the-wo...

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Mike Gallagher: The work is (often) people

Weeknote, w/c 13 October 2025

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Mike Gallagher @mikegallagher.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

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. mikegallagher.org/posts/shokun...

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Mike Gallagher: Shokunin

Weeknote, w/c 6 October 2025

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Mike Gallagher @mikegallagher.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

a weeknote, post-@sdingov.bsky.social, about trauma-informed design and interfaces and what is owed to the public mikegallagher.org/posts/interf...

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Mike Gallagher: Interfaces, morality, and care

Weeknote, w/c 21 September 2025

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Mike Gallagher @mikegallagher.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

do i know anyone at SDinGov? (i am at SDinGov)

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Mike Gallagher @mikegallagher.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

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). mikegallagher.org/posts/cognit...

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Mike Gallagher: Cognition in the flotilla

Weeknote, w/c 11 August 2025

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Mike Gallagher @mikegallagher.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

a weeknote. like, an actual weeknote covering most of what happened this week. mikegallagher.org/posts/a-mill...

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Mike Gallagher: A million little pieces

Weeknote, w/c 4 August 2025

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Mike Gallagher @mikegallagher.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

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. mikegallagher.org/posts/specul...

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Mike Gallagher: Speculative futures

Weeknote, w/c 28 July 2025

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Mike Gallagher @mikegallagher.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

extending the blogpost @frankieroberto.com and i published on monday about the NHS prototype kit, some more thoughts on designers working in code mikegallagher.org/posts/design...

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Mike Gallagher: Know your medium

The benefits of designing in code

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Mike Gallagher @mikegallagher.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

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-...

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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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Mike Gallagher @mikegallagher.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

a weeknote (yes, again) about people getting excited to make big change happen, and why that is often incredibly difficult to act on. mikegallagher.org/posts/resist...

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Mike Gallagher: Resisting entropy

Weeknote, w/c 23 June 2025

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Mike Gallagher @mikegallagher.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

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...

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Mike Gallagher: The work and your work

In praise of the personal development plan (sort of)

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Mike Gallagher @mikegallagher.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

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) mikegallagher.org/posts/dance-...

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Mike Gallagher: Dance of the design manager

Weeknote, w/c 9 June 2025

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Mike Gallagher @mikegallagher.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

a weeknote on interoperability, broadly considered (with apologies to john green). mikegallagher.org/posts/everyt...

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Mike Gallagher: Everything is interoperability

Weeknote, w/c 2 June 2025

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Mike Gallagher @mikegallagher.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

a weeknote, continuing on from last week. something to do with frames of reference and navigating conflicting worldviews. mikegallagher.org/posts/the-su...

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Mike Gallagher: The sum of its parts?

Weeknote, w/c 19 May 2025

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Mike Gallagher @mikegallagher.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

a bit late, but another weeknote, mostly pondering why i like a particular quote so much (and service design). mikegallagher.org/posts/limina...

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Mike Gallagher: The liminal spaces of service design

Weeknote, w/c 12 May 2025

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Mike Gallagher @mikegallagher.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

a weeknote, wondering what job titles say to other people and wondering if it matters mikegallagher.org/weeknote-wc-...

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Mike Gallagher: Weeknote, w/c 5 May 2025

What’s in a name?

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Mike Gallagher @mikegallagher.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

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. mikegallagher.org/weeknote-wc-...

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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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Mike Gallagher @mikegallagher.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

a weeknote that could have been titled "what is the NHS app, really?" mikegallagher.org/weeknote-wc-...

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Mike Gallagher: Weeknote, w/c 31 March 2025

Simplicity can be deceptive

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