Digital by Default

Author: Matt Jukes

  • Blogumentation and storytelling

    I am in the process of writing a slidedeck and a few other bits and pieces to support it as a part of our ‘communications strategy’ (meh) for the run up to the launch of our new website (yay). Given I am prevaricating about that (as always) I have been looking at what we — well I — have…

  • Little Rice. Little Read. Large Revelations.

    Just finished reading Little Rice the latest book by Clay Shirky after a recommendation from Russell Davies. First up I have to say training my brain to read Xiaomi as ‘show (but like shower) – me’ has been less than easy and it is safe to safe I will not be conversing in Mandarin (or…

  • The challenge of ‘user driven development’

    It has been 18 months now since we officially started the project to build a new ONS website — the most consistent thing throughout our initial discovery, the alpha and now the latter days of the beta has been a commitment to the principle of being ‘user focused’. Over the life of the project I have taken…

  • The challenge of ‘user driven development’

      It has been 18 months now since we officially started the project to build a new ONS website – the most consistent thing throughout our initial discovery, the alpha and now the latter days of the beta has been a commitment to the principle of being ‘user focused’. Over the life of the project…

  • Don’t do Agile. Be agile. Or something.

      I’ve read a couple of great posts about ‘agile’ in the last week or so – it is like 2008 all over again! First Paul Downey strayed from the topic of lists & registers to contemplate ‘scope creep’ and then Nik Silver wrote about ‘getting partial value from partial delivery‘. Both posts eloquently cover…