Digital by Default

Tag: UX

  • Kindle Backlog 2017

    I’ve just done a trawl through my Kindle ‘library’ and have identified 30 books that languish unread (or never read beyond a tiny percentage) and they are all books that I have, at some point, really wanted to read. So my new mission for 2017 is to clear this backlog. I’ve just started ‘Empire Games’…

  • Decoding Discovery

    Republished from the ONS Digital blog The ‘discovery’ phase of any digital undertaking is vital as it lays the foundation of any successful project. Unfortunately like many lessons from agile and the service design world it seems like a desire for a uniform, measurable approach in some organisations is creating obstacles to the technique being…

  • Internet of Public Service Jobs — 03/07/16

    ‘Internet of Public Service jobs’ is a weekly list of vacancies related to product management, user experience, development and design in…you guessed it…the ‘internet of public service’ curated by @jukesie every Sunday. OK lets not beat around the bush — the reason I started doing this list originally was to highlight jobs I was advertising myself and…

  • [What is it you actually do?] Simon Wilson

    ‘What is it you actually do?’ is a series of blogpost ‘interviews’ that ask interesting folk working on digital products in and around public service the age old question — ‘what is it you actually do?’. Shamelessly copying from Lifehacker’s ‘How I work’ series and ‘The Set Up’ blog. Who are you and what do you do…

  • [day note] The National Archives, Kew

    Today I was very pleased to take up the kind invitation from John Sheridan to visit his team at Kew. John is still relatively new to his role as Director of Digital at the National Archive but his work on Legislation.gov.uk was extremely influential on our thinking during the early stages of the ONS website…