Digital by Default

Author: Matt Jukes

  • Personal principles for product in a crisis

    I enjoyed reading these ‘principles for design in a crisis’ by Lou and a cast of 100s and the evolution of them published by the California Digital Service team as their Crisis Standard. It got me thinking about my own product principles at the moment. I’m working directly on some COVID stuff, advising on some…

  • Lock down viewing..so far

    I am lucky that work has been keeping my busy and focused but I’ve also tried hard to maintain some downtime – not easy as I live in a tiny one bed flat (albeit one with a garden), am not exactly exercise friendly and haven’t been able to calm my mind enough to read for…

  • Web(inar) of Words

    Once upon a time I was pretty determined to run an event called the ‘Web of Words’ about blogging, newsletters and working in the open. I did a bunch of work but then I got ill, changed jobs, had a bout of anxiety issues and decided to shelve things. Now I’m wondering whether that given…

  • Strange (First) Days

    Strange (First) Days

    These are strange days for everyone. Lots of people operating in unusual circumstances. As I’ve written before I have never been a fan of working from home so that alone has been a steep learning curve for me. I’ve got my little ‘office’ set up in my bedroom bay window and I’m getting used to…

  • Micro March (31)

    …well that was a month. Was not really what I expected to spend a month writing about but there you go. I’m going to stop now. I’ll do a #monthnote for April and get back to working on the stickers stuff and maybe some posts inspired by this new world of ours. Maybe.