Ralph @ralphhawkins.bsky.social · 03/04/2026Last week’s week note – working with materials ralphhawkins.co.uk/posts/weekno...ralphhawkins.co.ukMutually assured limbo – Ralph HawkinsWorking with materials 020
Ralph @ralphhawkins.bsky.social · 22/03/2026Week note – testing an idea about testing and learning ralphhawkins.co.uk/posts/weekno...ralphhawkins.co.ukLive alpha – Ralph HawkinsTesting an idea about testing and learning 020
Ralph @ralphhawkins.bsky.social · 15/03/2026Week note – talking about making stuff happen ralphhawkins.co.uk/posts/weekno...ralphhawkins.co.ukLiving in an old house – Ralph HawkinsTalking about making stuff happen 010
Ralph @ralphhawkins.bsky.social · 08/03/2026Week note – Scopey McScopeface ralphhawkins.co.uk/posts/weekno...ralphhawkins.co.ukNautilus – Ralph HawkinsScopey McScopeface 130
Ralph @ralphhawkins.bsky.social · 01/03/2026Week note – everyone sends a letter to the GP ralphhawkins.co.uk/posts/weekno...ralphhawkins.co.ukThe (post‑it) notes you don’t play – Ralph HawkinsEveryone sends a letter to the GP 050
Ralph @ralphhawkins.bsky.social · 21/02/2026Week note – does a view of vaccines and screening make sense for users? ralphhawkins.co.uk/posts/weekno...ralphhawkins.co.ukConway or another – Ralph HawkinsDoes a view of vaccines and screening make sense for users? 030
Ralph @ralphhawkins.bsky.social · 15/02/2026Week note – personalisation is hard ralphhawkins.co.uk/posts/weekno...ralphhawkins.co.ukI heard you like apps, so I put an app in your app – Ralph HawkinsPersonalisation is hard 020
Ralph @ralphhawkins.bsky.social · 07/02/2026Week note – does cross‑cutting mean distracting people? ralphhawkins.co.uk/posts/weekno...ralphhawkins.co.ukExchanging long protein strings – Ralph HawkinsDoes cross‑cutting mean distracting people? 020
Ralph @ralphhawkins.bsky.social · 31/01/2026Week note – where does Manage my Health start? ralphhawkins.co.uk/posts/weekno...ralphhawkins.co.ukNext best action – Ralph HawkinsWhere does Manage my Health start? 030
Ralph @ralphhawkins.bsky.social · 23/01/2026Week note – how much prevention do we put in the app? ralphhawkins.co.uk/posts/weekno...ralphhawkins.co.ukAnother korma – Ralph Hawkins 020
Ralph @ralphhawkins.bsky.social · 17/01/2026Week note – managing my health ralphhawkins.co.uk/posts/weekno...ralphhawkins.co.uk‘Prevention in the app’ is no more – we’re now ‘Managing my health’. This is positive for us because it gives a clear scope and we no longer share an acronym with ’pain in the arse’. 140
Ralph @ralphhawkins.bsky.social · 12/01/2026Week note – new team, new scope ralphhawkins.co.uk/posts/weekno...ralphhawkins.co.ukThe joiner’s arms – Ralph Hawkins 030
Ralph @ralphhawkins.bsky.social · 09/01/2026How long until someone wins the turner prize for making incredibly labour intensive recreations of AI slop? 120
Ralph @ralphhawkins.bsky.social · 16/12/2025How’s life in a dystopian surveillance state? It’s Orwell and good. 010
Ralph @ralphhawkins.bsky.social · 14/12/2025Week note – documenting the DPSP sticker ralphhawkins.co.uk/posts/weekno...ralphhawkins.co.ukWell rendered – Ralph Hawkins 030
Ralph @ralphhawkins.bsky.social · 09/12/2025Week note – how authentic should synthetic humans be? ralphhawkins.co.uk/posts/weekno...ralphhawkins.co.ukMaya – Ralph Hawkins 010
Ralph @ralphhawkins.bsky.social · 22/11/2025Week note – new work, collaborators, and AI for public good ralphhawkins.co.uk/posts/weekno...ralphhawkins.co.ukThe health record keeps the score – Ralph Hawkins 030
Reposted by RalphDavid Gilbert @davidgilbert.bsky.social · 14/10/2025"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 www.garbageday.email/p/the-great-...garbageday.emailThe Great DumbeningRead to the end for it’s Tronin’ time 36513
Ralph @ralphhawkins.bsky.social · 11/10/2025Week note – more about personalising health recommendations and a little bit about AI ralphhawkins.co.uk/posts/weekno...ralphhawkins.co.ukLimbic Öpik – Ralph Hawkins 020
Ralph @ralphhawkins.bsky.social · 04/10/2025Week note: - co‑ordinating teams - definitions of personalisations - co-design - health kiosks ralphhawkins.co.uk/posts/weekno...ralphhawkins.co.ukHigh pressure days – Ralph Hawkins 140
Ralph @ralphhawkins.bsky.social · 28/09/2025Week note – forcing myself to design with constraints I’ve made up ralphhawkins.co.uk/posts/weekno...ralphhawkins.co.ukFictional constraints – Ralph Hawkins 140
Ralph @ralphhawkins.bsky.social · 20/09/2025Week note – prototyping and working in a complex organisation. ralphhawkins.co.uk/posts/weekno...ralphhawkins.co.ukThe system around us – Ralph Hawkins 050
Ralph @ralphhawkins.bsky.social · 09/09/2025If 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 010
Ralph @ralphhawkins.bsky.social · 07/09/2025Week note – what do we lose when we outsource ralphhawkins.co.uk/posts/weekno...ralphhawkins.co.ukBig yellow taxi – Ralph Hawkins 020
Ralph @ralphhawkins.bsky.social · 26/08/2025Week note – transformation is about taking responsibility ralphhawkins.co.uk/posts/weekno...ralphhawkins.co.ukFrom the air – Ralph Hawkins 041
Ralph @ralphhawkins.bsky.social · 18/08/2025Week note – Nexialist: - simplicity vs authenticity - anticipating edge cases - observing success ralphhawkins.co.uk/posts/weekno...ralphhawkins.co.ukNexialist – Ralph Hawkins 110
Ralph @ralphhawkins.bsky.social · 09/08/2025Week 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...ralphhawkins.co.ukDoing the hard work to pretend it’s simple – Ralph Hawkins 150
Ralph @ralphhawkins.bsky.social · 25/07/2025Week note – R and R – defining my role and some other things ralphhawkins.co.uk/posts/weekno...ralphhawkins.co.ukR and R – Ralph Hawkins 030
Reposted by RalphMike Gallagher @mikegallagher.bsky.social · 21/07/2025a 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.ukWhy we are reinvesting in the NHS prototype kit - NHS England DigitalFrankie 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. 172
Ralph @ralphhawkins.bsky.social · 20/07/2025Week note – the design of systems – all jokes are the same, just with different words. ralphhawkins.co.uk/posts/weekno...ralphhawkins.co.ukThe design of a system – Ralph Hawkins 020
Ralph @ralphhawkins.bsky.social · 16/07/2025Week note – valuing aesthetics ralphhawkins.co.uk/posts/weekno...ralphhawkins.co.ukAlignment – Ralph Hawkins 150
Ralph @ralphhawkins.bsky.social · 06/07/2025Week note – Scale model. Personal care, impersonal systems. ralphhawkins.co.uk/posts/weekno...ralphhawkins.co.ukScale model – Ralph Hawkins 020
Reposted by RalphSarah Drummond @rufflemuffin.bsky.social · 04/07/2025Welcome 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...bbc.co.ukKent council bans transgender books in children’s library sectionKCC says the move came after a 146
Ralph @ralphhawkins.bsky.social · 29/06/2025Week note – Pulp friction – health vs pizza ralphhawkins.co.uk/posts/weekno...ralphhawkins.co.ukPulp friction – Ralph Hawkins 010
Ralph @ralphhawkins.bsky.social · 22/06/2025Week note – assumptions we’ve made and other people have made about how to help people improve their health ralphhawkins.co.uk/posts/weekno...ralphhawkins.co.ukTangentland – Ralph Hawkins 150
Ralph @ralphhawkins.bsky.social · 06/06/2025Week note – service models and dystopia ralphhawkins.co.uk/posts/weekno...ralphhawkins.co.ukHow soon is now? – Ralph Hawkins 040
Reposted by RalphClara Greo @claragt.bsky.social · 03/06/2025We 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...claragreo.com10 equity and justice prompts for AIWe 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… 3155
Reposted by RalphMat Johnson @demotive.bsky.social · 31/05/2025@danhon.com 's back, and thank you Dan, this chimes hard in NHS land - newsletter.danhon.com/archive/s19e...newsletter.danhon.coms19e11: Your Model is Naive and it’s Not The Territory0.0 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... 031
Reposted by RalphMike Gallagher @mikegallagher.bsky.social · 25/05/2025a weeknote, continuing on from last week. something to do with frames of reference and navigating conflicting worldviews. mikegallagher.org/posts/the-su...mikegallagher.orgMike Gallagher: The sum of its parts?Weeknote, w/c 19 May 2025 031
Ralph @ralphhawkins.bsky.social · 24/05/2025Week note – UCD folk and some of the barriers people face getting health support ralphhawkins.co.uk/posts/weekno...ralphhawkins.co.ukPeople’s thoughts and feelings – Ralph Hawkins 020
Ralph @ralphhawkins.bsky.social · 18/05/2025Week note – shipping services vs platforms, working with ‘the app’, supporting local health and an AI health coach. ralphhawkins.co.uk/posts/weekno...ralphhawkins.co.ukResting curmudgeon face – Ralph Hawkins 040
Reposted by RalphFrankie Roberto @frankieroberto.com · 16/05/2025My colleague Caroline has written about how we’re trying to break silos at the NHS by building a service catalogue: medium.com/@carolinefin... 💙medium.comBreaking siloes with a service catalogueDate: 16 May 2025 162
Ralph @ralphhawkins.bsky.social · 12/05/2025Week note – self-serve health assessments, business cases and working with vendors ralphhawkins.co.uk/posts/weekno...ralphhawkins.co.ukMore water in the Ribena – Ralph Hawkins 020
Ralph @ralphhawkins.bsky.social · 05/05/2025Week note – roles, nudges and mapping prevention ralphhawkins.co.uk/posts/weekno...ralphhawkins.co.ukThe Apocryphal Zumba Class – Ralph Hawkins 140
Ralph @ralphhawkins.bsky.social · 25/04/2025Week note – weird things about the civil service and end‑to‑end service design ralphhawkins.co.uk/posts/weekno...ralphhawkins.co.ukWhat happens in Mural, stays in Mural – Ralph Hawkins 110
Reposted by RalphIrina Pencheva @irinap.bsky.social · 25/04/2025A year ago I started at NHS England. And what a year it has been for me. I’ve written about it here irinapencheva.com/2025/04/24/a...irinapencheva.comA year at NHSEI’ve been a Head of Product at NHS England for a year now and this blog post covers my reflections on the past year (and what a year it has been!). 4101
Ralph @ralphhawkins.bsky.social · 18/04/2025Fortnight note – prevention risks and types of service designer ralphhawkins.co.uk/posts/weekno...ralphhawkins.co.ukFrom workshop to workshop – Ralph Hawkins 010
