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Notes from working on NHS digital prevention services

From Frankie Roberto

  1. Week 23: After the design sprint

    Showing and telling. Service catalogues. Public roadmaps.

  2. Week 22: Design sprint

    A 5 day run at redesigning a core bit of the service.

  3. Week 21: Progressive enhancement

    Kicking off a design sprint. New guidance on client-side JavaScript.

  4. Week 20: Pharmacy vaccinations

    Production code. Service manual research. School flu immunisations.

  5. Week 19: Platformland

    Notes on Richard Pope’s new book. Proxy access.

  6. Week 18: Vital signs

    Publication of the independent investigation of the NHS.

  7. Week 17: Go, go, go

    Launch of the new RSV vaccine. Design System Day. It’s ok poster.

  8. Week 16: Onboarding organisations

    Registers and autocompletes. GOV.UK service navigation.

  9. Week 15: Snagging

    User guides. Date pickers.

  10. Week 14: Back to work

    Doing demos. Using the NHS Prototype Kit. Receiving NHS App notifications.

  11. Holidaynotes: A stitch in the head

    A holiday incident.

  12. Week 13: The RSV vaccine

    Learning from the pilot. CrowdStrike.

  13. Week 12: Weird relic from an earlier time

    Data export interfaces. New government energy.

  14. Week 11: Change

    Cervical screening digital system launch. Functional specifications.

  15. Week 10: Jabs in arms

    Visting a COVID-19 vaccination centre. Headers. Fixed deadline, variable scope.

  16. Week 9: Changing lightbulbs

    Deciding which rules to enforce in services. Learning Figma.

  17. Week 8: Recovery

    Getting better. NHS Design System release. The Green Book.

  18. Week 7: Covid

    Being ill.

  19. Week 6: Being Human

    Notes from a Wellcome Collection exhibition.

  20. Week 5: Interesting

    Getting access to tools. Org charts vs webs. Notes from a conference.