Author: Matt Jukes

  • I need a playbook for hiring..

    I need a playbook for hiring..

    If you follow me on Twitter I probably owe you a bit of an apology. In recent weeks I have become obsessed with using my networks to publicise a couple of jobs that we have open at ONS and I think I have probably pushed the patience of my network to the edge. It is…

  • Research for User Researchers

    Research for User Researchers

    [The role has been slightly tweaked and is now called User Experience Lead but it available again – the vast majority of this post is still valid] There are still a few days to apply for the two User Researcher UX Lead job with me at ONS and so I thought I would say a…

  • Train of thought(s)

    Train of thought(s)

    I spend my share of time on trains and amongst the commuter rage I spend a lot of that time thinking. Occasionally this leads to breakthroughs in things I have been working on but more often it just leaves half coherent, half crazed thoughts bouncing around in my noggin. So after 9 hours on a…

  • Power to the people

    Power to the people

    Last year I read a lot more of I guess you’d call ‘business books’. I’ve always bought my share of them but actually getting around to reading them was a whole different thing! Three of them were offering insights in to some of the most influential companies of the internet age (Pixar, Amazon and Google)…

  • A Fistful of Links (1)

    A Fistful of Links (1)

    I was going to do this as a newsletter – that seems to be the thing to do these days but I do fear that is the new tree falls in a forest conundrum : If you write a newsletter and nobody subscribes did it really send. So I know at least one or two…