Designing forms people finish
Fewer fields, visible labels and specific error messages: practical form design rules from GOV.UK, NN/g and Baymard's checkout research.
Design systems for small teams: tokens, components and documentation
How a small team can build a lightweight design system: design tokens, a core set of components and short documentation, without pausing product work.
Databases explained: relational vs NoSQL and when each fits
What relational and NoSQL databases are, what ACID means, and how to judge which fits your product, with questions to ask your developers.
Descriptive statistics for business: mean, median, standard deviation and outliers
When to report the mean or the median, how standard deviation and interquartile range describe spread, and how to spot and handle outliers in…
Data quality and data governance for small teams: definitions, owners and validation
A light approach to data governance for small teams: agreed definitions, named owners and checks at the point of entry, based on UK government…
Dark patterns: what they are and the UK and EU rules against them
Fake urgency, drip pricing, hard-to-cancel subscriptions: the common dark patterns, the UK and EU rules in force in 2026, and how to audit your…
Website speed: Core Web Vitals and what improves them
What LCP, INP and CLS measure, the thresholds Google uses, how to check your own site and the fixes that usually help.
Competitive advantage and moats: network effects, switching costs, scale, brand
What makes a competitive advantage last: network effects, switching costs, scale and brand, and how to test whether your business really has a moat.
Colour in interfaces: contrast, meaning and consistency
How to choose interface colours that pass WCAG contrast, never carry meaning alone, and stay consistent through a small palette named by role.
Coaching as a manager: how to use the GROW model
How managers can coach with the GROW model (goal, reality, options, will), with example questions, a worked conversation and the traps that turn coaching…
