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Lab · Beginner · 40 min
Lab: Redesign in greyscale
Rebuild a busy screen without colour to force hierarchy, then add one accent.
- A dashboard uses six colours, three filled buttons and no clear primary action; users say it is confusing.
Tasks 3
Learning path · Beginner · 6h
Interface design that people can use
From a job to be done to a tested interface: structure, hierarchy, states, copy and a usability test.
- Design interfaces that guide people to their goal, with clear hierarchy, complete states and words that help.
- Skills: Defining the job and the primary action, Visual hierarchy and layout, Designing every state, Interface copy, Running a usability test
Time 6h
Cheat sheet · Beginner · 5 min
SaaS building blocks cheat sheet
The tables, flows and services every SaaS needs. 4 sections, 17 entries.
- Data
- Billing
- Admin
Entries 17
Cheat sheet · Beginner · 5 min
Web fundamentals cheat sheet
HTML, CSS and performance rules on one screen. 4 sections, 16 entries.
- HTML
- Accessibility
- Layout
Entries 16
Lab · Beginner · 30 min
Lab: Keyboard-only session
Use a site with the mouse unplugged and log every control that cannot be reached or operated.
- Before a redesign, you need a list of the accessibility failures on the current site.
Tasks 3
Project · Beginner · 6h
Project: An accessible, responsive landing page
Build a landing page with semantic structure, keyboard-accessible interaction, a fluid layout and measured performance.
- Build a landing page for a product with a header, hero, feature grid, pricing cards, FAQ disclosures and a signup form. It must pass an accessibility audit, work by keyboard, adapt from 320px to 1600px with at most two media queries, and load with good paint metrics.
- Milestone 1: Structure
- Milestone 2: Layout
Learning path · Beginner · 6h
Web fundamentals for people who ship
HTML that means something, CSS that holds up, and the browser behaviour every front-end depends on.
- Build accessible, responsive pages with semantic HTML and modern CSS, and understand how the browser loads and renders them.
- Skills: Semantic, accessible HTML, Modern layout with flexbox and grid, Responsive design without breakpoints everywhere, Forms and validation, Performance basics
Time 6h
Cheat sheet · Beginner · 5 min
TypeScript patterns cheat sheet
The patterns that catch bugs, and the anti-patterns that hide them. 4 sections, 15 entries.
- Modelling
- Narrowing
- Generics
Entries 15
Cheat sheet · Beginner · 5 min
React decisions cheat sheet
The questions to ask and the usual answers. 4 sections, 16 entries.
- Components
- State
- Effects
Entries 16
Lab · Beginner · 40 min
Lab: Delete the effects
Take a component full of unnecessary effects and remove every one that can be replaced by a computation or a handler.
- A colleague's component has five effects: two sync state from props, one responds to a click, one fetches, one subscribes to resize.
Tasks 3
Learning path · Beginner · 8h
React that stays maintainable
Components, state, effects and data — learned by building a real interface and refactoring it as it grows.
- Build interactive React interfaces with sensible state, few effects and components that stay small.
- Skills: Composing components with props and children, Choosing where state lives, Using effects only for synchronisation, Fetching and caching data, Testing components
Time 8h
Cheat sheet · Beginner · 5 min
App Router essentials cheat sheet
Files, boundaries and rules in one place. Check the framework's current docs for API details. 4 sections, 16 entries.
- Files
- Components
- Data and actions
Entries 16
Cheat sheet · Beginner · 5 min
Automation building blocks cheat sheet
The concepts and rules for any platform. 4 sections, 17 entries.
- Blocks
- Building
- Reliability
Entries 17ZapierMake
Lab · Beginner · 30 min
Lab: Duplicate hunt
Trigger an automation twice with the same input and prove it does not create duplicates.
- Your form-to-CRM automation is live. A form gets submitted twice by an impatient user.
Tasks 3ZapierMake
Project · Beginner · 6h
Project: Automate one process end to end
Take one manual process from map to live automation with error handling, a manual fallback and a measured saving.
- Choose a recurring process. Map it from three real examples, build the automation one block at a time, add error routing and idempotency, test three samples and one deliberate failure, and run it live for two weeks with a log of runs, failures and time saved.
- Milestone 1: Map and build
- Milestone 2: Harden
ZapierMake
Learning path · Beginner · 5h
Automation from zero
Map a process, build it on a no-code platform, handle failures and keep it running.
- Build and maintain reliable automations for your own recurring processes.
- Skills: Mapping a process, Triggers, actions, filters and paths, Error handling and idempotency, Monitoring and maintenance
Time 5hZapierMake
Cheat sheet · Beginner · 5 min
ChatGPT features cheat sheet
What each feature is for and the rule for using it. 4 sections, 16 entries.
- Setup
- Files
- Prompting
Entries 16ChatGPT
Lab · Beginner · 45 min
Lab: Verify a ChatGPT analysis
Have ChatGPT analyse a dataset, then verify each claim independently.
- A colleague sends you ChatGPT's analysis of a sales CSV with five claims and one chart. You have the CSV.
Tasks 3ChatGPT
Project · Beginner · 4h
Project: A personal operating setup for ChatGPT
Configure instructions, three projects and a saved-prompt file for your real work, then measure the time saved over a week.
- Write custom instructions, create three projects for your three most recurring areas of work with files and instructions, and keep a file of five saved prompts with variables. Use the setup for a week and log time saved per task and edits made.
- Milestone 1: Configure
- Milestone 2: Use
ChatGPT
Learning path · Beginner · 3h
ChatGPT for real work
Get dependable results from ChatGPT: custom instructions, projects, data analysis and the checks that keep it honest.
- Use ChatGPT's features deliberately for writing, analysis and files, and verify what it produces.
- Skills: Custom instructions and projects, Working with files and data analysis, Prompt patterns that reduce drift, Verifying outputs
Time 3hChatGPT
Cheat sheet · Beginner · 5 min
Claude Code workflow cheat sheet
The moves that keep agentic coding verified. 4 sections, 14 entries.
- Setup
- Session
- Review
Entries 14Claude Code
Cheat sheet · Beginner · 5 min
Claude patterns cheat sheet
Prompt patterns that work well with Claude. 4 sections, 16 entries.
- Structure
- Reasoning
- Projects
Entries 16Claude
Lab · Beginner · 45 min
Lab: Long document Q&A under scrutiny
Ask Claude questions about a long document and verify every answer against the source.
- You have a fifty-page document and twenty questions a colleague needs answered by tomorrow.
Tasks 3Claude
Learning path · Beginner · 3h
Working with Claude
Get consistent, honest results from Claude for writing, analysis and long documents.
- Use Claude's strengths — long context, structured instructions, careful reasoning — for real work with checkable output.
- Skills: Structuring long inputs with tags, Asking for reasoning before answers, Projects and reusable instructions, Verifying long-document answers
Time 3hClaude

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