Digital by Default

Author: Matt Jukes

  • [day note] DVLA, Swansea

    Thanks to Dudley, Lee and Ryan for taking time out of their days to chat to me and to Rohan for making it happen. It was a genuinely interesting couple of hours (and not only for finding a Grimsby fan in Swansea!). The DVLA digital team have been a major player in the GDS ‘revolution’…

  • Friday footnotes [3]

    Friday footnotes is a weekly list of links related to product management and design in the ‘internet of public service’ curated by @jukesie [1] When the team is the unit of delivery, trust matters by Ade Adewunmi is a splendid post that really articulates some of the benefits of working in multi-disciplinary teams and some…

  • Product is a team sport

    Talk at Design Swansea 2nd June 2016 Hi — I’m Matt. I work at the Office for National Statistics in Newport and I’d just like to thank Benjy for the invite. First up I think it is important to say that while I do work for ONS what I am talking about this evening is very much a…

  • [What is it you actually do?] Roo Reynolds

    ‘What is it you actually do?’ is a series of blogpost ‘interviews’ that ask interesting folk working on digital products in and around public service the age old question — ‘what is it you actually do?’. Shamelessly copying from Lifehacker’s ‘How I work’ series and ‘The Set Up’ blog. Who are you and what do you do…

  • [book report] Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Start-Up Bubble by Dan Lyons

    http://amzn.to/22u3h9F For a couple of years around 2006 I was desperate to work at a web start-up. Well not desperate enough to leave Bristol but pretty interested in the idea anyway. I read Techcruch and Mashable (when it was still a tech blog) and had dreams of working in a truly Internet-era company and escaping…