Author: Matt Jukes

  • Monzo: a case study in the ups and downs of being open

    I am – as I suspect you know if you are reading this – an advocate of working in the open. It is the topic I am most passionate about and a practice I try to bring to every corner of my working life. It isn’t without risks though. In the last week or so…

  • Bristol burr

    I was reading this article on the Bristol Post website this morning with interest. The reporter – Tristan Cork – has been tweeting quite a bit recently about the ‘prejudice’ against the Bristolian accent and this article feels like the culmination of that. As most of you reading this will know I have a broad…

  • 12

    My WordPress blog turned 12 this week (that is this blog). WordPress said it was yesterday but I actually think it was the 17th. I’d been blogging before at Typepad, Blogpost and Jisc Involve (which was my project) but despite cheating on her with Medium the last few years on and off this has been…

  • Help with our user research…please!

    The Notbinary Alpha team is working with a Government Department to explore how government can best help businesses to navigate the information and support available to them (online). To make sure that we understand businesses’ needs and that we build the right thing for them, we would like to have interviews with a variety of…

  • Words to live by..

    This post is mainly a reminder to myself of the links to these articles about some of my favourite ‘principles’ / ‘rules’ that I quote a lot and then fail to find when I need to – they are about writing and leadership (because really what else do I do at this point but write…