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Notes from the workbench

Things we learned building and maintaining software other people have to live with. No listicles, no thought leadership — just what worked, what did not, and the reasoning behind it.

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Latest Website performance metrics displayed on a laptop screen.

A practical Core Web Vitals budget

Lighthouse scores are a symptom, not a target. Here is the performance budget we hold ourselves to on every build, what each metric actually measures, and what gets cut first when the budget slips.

Binya Amin
Interface wireframes drawn by hand in a sketchbook.

Design systems that survive a rewrite

Most design systems die when the framework changes. The ones that last store decisions, not components.

Binya Amin · 9 min
Abstract blue neural network visualisation.

Where AI actually helps a delivery team

Not everywhere. We mapped the places it earns its keep, and the places it quietly costs you time.

Binya Amin · 8 min
Coming soon A planning wall covered in sticky notes during a workshop.

How to write a scope nobody argues about

The structure we use for every project scope, and the four sentences that prevent most disputes.

Binya Amin
Coming soon User interface designs shown on a tablet and phone.

Every state you forgot to design

Empty, loading, partial, error, offline, too-much-data. A checklist we run before any screen is called done.

Binya Amin
Coming soon Server racks lit in a dark data centre aisle.

The backup you have never restored

Why an untested backup is a rumour, and the twenty-minute drill we run with every client before handover.

Binya Amin

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