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Mike Gallagher @mikegallagher.bsky.social · Aug 17

ugh, ok, thanks for the heads up. (and my apologies.)

Mike Gallagher @mikegallagher.bsky.social · Aug 12

yeah, awful. especially because i agree with @ralphhawkins.bsky.social – i hate mural.

Mike Gallagher @mikegallagher.bsky.social · Aug 12

yep. maybe for an enterprise license they will negotiate down to a lower price, but for all the versions that have publicly listed prices: it is more money.

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Mike Gallagher @mikegallagher.bsky.social · Aug 12

oddly, it is actually more expensive than miro, lucid, and figjam

Mike Gallagher: A million little pieces

Mike Gallagher @mikegallagher.bsky.social · Aug 10

perhaps we should talk, make things less theoretical, etc? (was i talking too much nonsense on thursday lol??)

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Mike Gallagher @mikegallagher.bsky.social · Aug 10

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

Weeknote, w/c 4 August 2025

Mike Gallagher: Speculative futures

Mike Gallagher @mikegallagher.bsky.social · Aug 3

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...

Weeknote, w/c 28 July 2025

Mike Gallagher: Know your medium

Mike Gallagher @mikegallagher.bsky.social · Jul 27

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...

The benefits of designing in code

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Mike Gallagher @mikegallagher.bsky.social · Jul 21

(hint: it is closer to reality, it is more accessible than visual tools, it is free, and it provides a better sense of the medium)

Why we are reinvesting in the NHS prototype kit - NHS England Digital

Mike Gallagher @mikegallagher.bsky.social · Jul 21

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-...

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

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Mike Gallagher @mikegallagher.bsky.social · Jul 20

a weeknote, back to work, trying to make sense of new plans
mikegallagher.org/posts/back-t...

Mike Gallagher: Back to work: parsing the NHS 10 Year Plan

Weeknote, w/c 14 July 2025

Mike Gallagher @mikegallagher.bsky.social · Jun 28

the search continues. also: glad to hear it!

Mike Gallagher @mikegallagher.bsky.social · Jun 28

hi! i am! hope you are too!

also: i think i got the idea for the thing i wrote last week ("the work vs your work") from you, or maybe lily. i meant to ask but didn't get around to it. is that a martin-ism?

Mike Gallagher: Resisting entropy

Mike Gallagher @mikegallagher.bsky.social · Jun 28

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...

Weeknote, w/c 23 June 2025

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Mike Gallagher @mikegallagher.bsky.social · Jun 22

completely. my partner is forever telling me that work reading is work, so do it during work hours. i tell people i manage this too, but it is difficult to actually follow through with all the other demands on one's attention.

Mike Gallagher @mikegallagher.bsky.social · Jun 22

i'm very interesting in what happens between step 1 and 2 of the policy model. how does that message work? if someone learns that they probably have some condition by, like, email, that could be *really* alarming!

Mike Gallagher: The work and your work

Mike Gallagher @mikegallagher.bsky.social · Jun 22

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...

In praise of the personal development plan (sort of)

Mike Gallagher: Dance of the design manager

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Mike Gallagher @mikegallagher.bsky.social · Jun 15

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-...

Weeknote, w/c 9 June 2025

Mike Gallagher: Everything is interoperability

Mike Gallagher @mikegallagher.bsky.social · Jun 8

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

Weeknote, w/c 2 June 2025

Mike Gallagher @mikegallagher.bsky.social · Jun 6

eerily similar to the NHS app being both an app and website.
explaining that it exists in a web browser too and yet is still called "the NHS app, so when you say "NHS app" you might be talking about either one is a nightmare.