Digital by Default

Author: Matt Jukes

  • Homepage ‘heroes’

    We all know that less and less visitors come in via our homepages and actually those years of rows over what should get priority on the old /index.html page are [slowly] coming to an end. All that said they are still a great way to set the tone for a site and also for someone…

  • Open vs Big vs Personal: data defined?

    As I continue on my own personal ‘road to Damascus’ towards my conversion to the ‘open data’ cause (if not quite the ‘linked data’ aspect yet!) one of the things that always muddies the waters in discussions and meetings is the constant blurring of the lines between different concepts of data. The big three are…

  • My 10 Social Media Principles

    These days it seems ‘de rigueur’ to work according to a set of Principles. I blame GDS 🙂 At work I have outsourced the heavy lifting to Aviation House and just follow these https://www.gov.uk/designprinciples but I’ve been thinking a bit about my own, personal principles when it comes to this blog and particularly social media.…

  • The Infographic Superhighway

    [re-posted from the ONS Digital Publishing blog]   One of the first things that struck me when I joined the ONS back in May was the organisational obsession with the concept of the ‘infographic‘. They had found almost universal support amongst our statistical teams as a format for improving the communication of our outputs and…

  • How to Write by Ogilvy

    This was doing the rounds a little bit on Twitter a couple of days ago – I think it was a tweet from Sarah Richards from GDS where I first spotted it. Reading it I couldn’t help but think that for 8 or 9 of the recommendations on the list memo = blog. I think…