Digital by Default

Author: Matt Jukes

  • Nimble?

    adjective quick and light in movement or action; agile. (of the mind) able to think and understand quickly. I think I am going to start talking about ‘nimble’ teams rather than ‘agile not Agile’ which is what I forever seem to be caught in a loop about. I can’t bring myself to use the term…

  • The method behind my madness

    How I do my jobs newsletter each week Thanks to a burst of retweets over the last couple of days my newsletter has had a nice little spike in sign-ups — almost 400 people now (woohoo!) so I thought I would just clear up what goes into the list. Basically it is a genuinely curated list that I…

  • The Howard Hawks method

    I sometimes feel a bit guilty that I give the same talk more than once or return to the same topics for blogposts time and again. But then I think about Howard Hawks. For those of you who do not know Hawks was a Hollywood movie director whose career straddled silent films and ‘talkies’. While…

  • Internet of Public Service Jobs — 12/11/17

    ‘Internet of Public Service jobs’ is a weekly list of vacancies related to product management, user experience, data and design in…you guessed it…the ‘internet of public service’ curated by @jukesie every Sunday. Sign up for it as an email every Sunday afternoon! [01] User Interaction Designer: standards, software & documentationOpendata CoopRemote (UK)£36,000Closing date: 03/12/2017 [02]…

  • This thing of ours

    Fuggetaboutit I’ve been listening to Five Families: The Rise, Decline, and Resurgence of America’s Most Powerful Mafia Empires and recently I stumbled across Donnie Brasco on TV for the first time in ages (not long after hearing about the real story in the audiobook) and it got me thinking about weird little parallels with my…