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Ralph @ralphhawkins.bsky.social · 6d

Thanks!

Ralph @ralphhawkins.bsky.social · 6d

Also I bought a pizza from yard sale yesterday

Ralph @ralphhawkins.bsky.social · 6d

I nearly bought it

Wish id seen this

Ralph @ralphhawkins.bsky.social · 7d

Week note:
- co‑ordinating teams
- definitions of personalisations
- co-design
- health kiosks

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High pressure days – Ralph Hawkins

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Ralph @ralphhawkins.bsky.social · 13d

Week note – forcing myself to design with constraints I’ve made up

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Fictional constraints – Ralph Hawkins

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Ralph @ralphhawkins.bsky.social · 21d

Week note – prototyping and working in a complex organisation.

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The system around us – Ralph Hawkins

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Ralph @ralphhawkins.bsky.social · Sep 9

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

Ralph @ralphhawkins.bsky.social · Sep 7

Week note – what do we lose when we outsource

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Big yellow taxi – Ralph Hawkins

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Ralph @ralphhawkins.bsky.social · Aug 26

Week note – transformation is about taking responsibility

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From the air – Ralph Hawkins

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Ralph @ralphhawkins.bsky.social · Aug 18

yep – that's a better way of framing it, thanks!

Ralph @ralphhawkins.bsky.social · Aug 18

Week note – Nexialist:
- simplicity vs authenticity
- anticipating edge cases
- observing success

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Nexialist – Ralph Hawkins

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Ralph @ralphhawkins.bsky.social · Aug 17

tl/dr if leaders tell people what needs to happen and why and leave people with expertise to make it happen you get better results

Ralph @ralphhawkins.bsky.social · Aug 17

have you read Turn the ship around?

(i assume so, but just in case)

Ralph @ralphhawkins.bsky.social · Aug 12

i hate mural so much

Ralph @ralphhawkins.bsky.social · Aug 10

*proposition

Ralph @ralphhawkins.bsky.social · Aug 10

you weren’t talking nonsense at all

Ralph @ralphhawkins.bsky.social · Aug 10

talking is good, would be happy to

my main takeaway from thursday was we needed a clearer proportion – for the benefit of our team and yours

Ralph @ralphhawkins.bsky.social · Aug 9

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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Doing the hard work to pretend it’s simple – Ralph Hawkins

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Ralph @ralphhawkins.bsky.social · Jul 25

Week note – R and R – defining my role and some other things

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R and R – Ralph Hawkins

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Ralph @ralphhawkins.bsky.social · Jul 23

Aesop Rocky is the best smelling rapper

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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

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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.

Ralph @ralphhawkins.bsky.social · Jul 20

Tim Berners-lee’s favourite sitcom is My Name is URL

Ralph @ralphhawkins.bsky.social · Jul 20

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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Ralph @ralphhawkins.bsky.social · Jul 18

hey andy – yeah exactly that. I was being flippant, but sometimes it feels like the end goal is something in mural and not something being used by people. I’m actually a massive fan of white boarding tools in general, it’s such a powerful way to work collaboratively. I do specifically hate mural tho

Ralph @ralphhawkins.bsky.social · Jul 16

Week note – valuing aesthetics

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Alignment – Ralph Hawkins

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