Digital by Default

Author: Matt Jukes

  • Talking #teacamp : social media guidelines

    Yesterday I finally managed to attend a #teacamp [original] in London – just weeks before the launch of the West Country version I thought was a good idea (in a moment of madness I fear). As you can see from the pic below it was a pretty massive turnout and as such slightly different than…

  • Multiple Mozilla Meetups :)

    Mozilla have always had a number of staff based in the UK but have just opened an official office in London for the first time near Covent Garden. To celebrate this they have organised a little programme of fun events during May to ‘introduce’ themselves to the local developer & open web communities. The events…

  • Is ‘Agile’ important?

    I’ve linked to this on Twitter but I just wanted to comment on it here. Bob Marshall has written this brilliant post titled Agile Development Doesn’t Work and I think it is a must read for anyone in web development (especially on the management side). It can be summed up with its introductory statement; Q:…

  • Considering the case against WYSIWYG

    Thanks to the power of Twitter I was recently pointed to this article by Rachel Andrew , who amongst other things is one of the founders of the lightweight CMS Perch, titled Your WYSIWYG Editor sucks. It riffs on a couple of topics that I have seen come up a few times recently and have…

  • GOVUK Design Principles – first thoughts

    Bluetacked to the wall next to my desk at work is a print out of the Fifteen Principles the BBC used for their BBC2.0 project back in 2007. They have followed me from job to job (and job to job!) ever since Tom Loosemore spoke at a JISC conference that year and introduced me to…