After a day of teaching designers to code I came home and had to help my daughter with her coding homework. Sadly hers involved a terrible visual interface with no ability to edit the underlying code.

My 6 year old: “there is no Santa’s naughty list. The government just tell you that.” 😂

Weeknotes from me: frankieroberto.github.io/nhsnotes/pos... Some great links at the bottom this week too.

Absolutely loved #theTraitors final. Such good tv.

I think it might be time folks. I think it might be time for… my first mince pie of the season.

Loved being back at the @leevalleypark.bsky.social Velodrome today for another great track cycling event! Congrats to Katie Archibald and Sophie Lewis for an emphatic win! 🥇

Super excited to see @psbhq.bsky.social at the Barbican with the London Contemporary Orchestra tonight!

Weeknotes this week are notes from our annual away day for NHS vaccination digital services: frankieroberto.github.io/nhsnotes/pos...

Today in adulting: taking apart a cooker hood to clean off a decade of grease. Probably should have done this earlier. Also turns out you should replace the charcoal filters regularly. 🤦‍♂️

Another fun year of trick or treating with the kids. Enjoyed this AI pumpkin from one of the houses!

I've written about the work we have done to make the NHS Design System fit for the future and to support the NHS 10-year plan to move from analogue to digital. Read more and be part of this change: digital.nhs.uk/blog/design-...

Exhausted after a busy couple of days in Leeds, where we held our annual in-person event for people working in NHS England on digital vaccination services. These events are a lot of work to organise, but worth it for the chance to reflect, hear from external speakers, and catch up with colleagues.

Weeknotes this week includes new NHS components, a public roadmap for our digital prevention services, design crits, and a bunch of interesting links. frankieroberto.github.io/nhsnotes/pos...

Loads of great notes and links in here. And shout out to the Digital Planning / i.AI team for kicking off their team public weeknotes: digital-land.github.io/extract-alph... ❤️

I got my flu vaccine this week. I’d encourage all eligible Londoners to get theirs as soon as possible to stay well and strong this winter and be able to enjoy all that London has to offer. Book through your GP, the NHS app or online ⬇️ nhs.uk/vaccinations...

This is great. Platforms (or “solutions” eugh) at the wrong level of abstraction are an anti-pattern. See also: CRMs

I still spend a surprising amount of time converting Word docs into HTML by hand. Basically the same as my first job 20 years ago.

Heading home after a 5 day Interrail trip where we visited 9 different countries! 🇧🇪🇳🇱🇩🇪🇦🇹🇸🇮🇮🇹🇨🇭🇫🇷🇱🇺

It’s day 3 of a 5 day Interrail trip my brother and I are on. We’re not sure where to stay tonight. Option 1️⃣: Como in Italy 🇮🇹 Option 2️⃣: Lugano in Switzerland 🇨🇭 You choose! Vote now in a reply. Polls close in a few hours.

It’s day 3 of a 5 day Interrail trip my brother and I are on. We’re not sure where to stay tonight. Option 1️⃣: Como in Italy 🇮🇹 Option 2️⃣: Lugano in Switzerland 🇨🇭 You choose! Vote now in a reply. Polls close in a few hours.

Weeknotes this week are about the start of winter vaccinations, changing an interface, and @duncanjbrown.com talk on AI and sense-making. frankieroberto.github.io/nhsnotes/pos...

I can report that the Yard Sale x Dishoom pizza collab is pretty good.

My turn to watch K Pop Demon Hunters with my 9 year old. Have heard so much about it that I’m intrigued.

Well done England! #RWC2025

Weeknotes: frankieroberto.github.io/nhsnotes/pos...

Weeknotes this week are about show and tells, our prototype kit training course, and how #PaperCamp4 got me thinking about paper in the NHS: frankieroberto.github.io/nhsnotes/pos...

Spending the day at #PaperCamp4 today. Digital folk talking non-digital stuff!

Being taught all about K Pop Demon Hunters by my 9 year old. It’s a whole other world.

Shout out to everyone at #SDinGov! I’m not there, but I’ll be following with interest. A quick reminder that I help maintain a list of all UK gov digital services, including links to service assessments and code: govuk-digital-services.herokuapp.com If your service is missing, let me know!

Today I will be teaching people how to write “hello world” in HTML in Notepad (among other things). Hoping to channel some of that early wonder of the World Wide Web.

Weeknotes from last week: frankieroberto.github.io/nhsnotes/pos...

This is great. 💙 Also think that even politically, politicians would benefit from showing the things (and videos of people using them) rather than just making a speech to announced a printed strategy document.

Lovely to be back at the Emirates for the first match of the season. I think we can win the WSL this year! #Arsenal

Weeknotes from last week, reflecting on the strategy behind NHS frontend version 10: frankieroberto.github.io/nhsnotes/pos...

Something I and many others in the NHS have spent months working on has just gone live, a big update to design system and frontend! 🎉 See service-manual.nhs.uk/design-syste... for the changes. Not super glamorous work, but it helps improve the foundations for our digital services.

Interrailing around Europe with my family. Yesterday we rode the Grottenbahn in Linz (opened in 1906). Today we’re off to Budapest.

Get your season tickets now folks, coz Arsenal are gonna win the WSL next season: www.arsenal.com/arsenal-wome...

And THAT’S WHY you get an Overground line named after you! 🦁⚽️🙌

Oh no, penalties! 🦁😬🤞

Watching the Lionesses in a German bar. Extra time. Pretty tense. I think we can do this. 🦁⚽️

Urging on the Lionesses tonight! 🦁⚽️

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...

Momentarily thrown on a German train when they ask in the cafe car whether I wanted my beer “for here or to go?”. (They meant did I want it in a glass, to drink in the bar area. How very civilised!)

Weeknotes: frankieroberto.github.io/nhsnotes/pos... About to go on holiday for 3 weeks so it’ll be the last one for a while!

Lovely collection of links in here.

ENGLAND! Incredible. ⚽️ We can do this.

Enjoyed the new Jurassic Park film a lot. So many enjoyable references to the first one. The “32 years previously” caption on one of the flashbacks was a bit of a shocker though. It can’t have been that long ago, surely? 🦖😱

At the NHS we’re teaching designers how to code with the NHS prototype kit, instead of using visual tools like Figma. Find out why in the blog post below! 🎉

Weeknotes: frankieroberto.github.io/nhsnotes/pos...

Posting some blue skies to Bluesky. Having an amazing long weekend out hiking in the Lake District.