Members’ Area

From receiving expert help and guidance to benchmarking your business’ performance, the Members’ Area is a gateway to resources, services and support specifically developed for those working in the field of design.

Some sections are exclusively accessible to DBA members, connecting you to the extensive range of benefits your membership provides.

DBA membership extends to everyone working within your business – all members of your team can register for their own password – ensuring the whole team benefits.

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Essential guidance, templates, insight and tools to support you on all aspects of the business of design. From contracts to client opinion, legal updates to exporting support, our resources give you instant access to expert advice and tools to help solve a wide range of business challenges.

If you can’t find the information you’re after please email membership@dba.org.uk or call +44 (0)20 3855 4126 and we’ll look to source or signpost you to guidance to match your needs. 

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Fireside chat with Dr Mary McBride | Designing action

By Design Business Association
Designers possess a unique superpower: the intrinsic ability to apply a creative lens to complex problems and envision a future that doesn’t yet exist. Catch up on this conversation between Dr Mary McBride, Chair and Professor at Pratt Institute and DBA Chief Executive, Deborah Dawton. They won’t hand you a roadmap, but they will challenge, galvanise, and energise you to take decisive action.

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The value of design: what’s next?

By Design Business Association
Have we reached a turning point for design? Catch up on this webinar with Deborah Dawton, Chief Executive at the DBA and Kevin McCullagh, Founder of Plan, as they discuss how we can ensure design maintains its valued and hard-won position as a driving force for change and unpick the inherent skills of designers to find brand new opportunity in challenge.

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Data on Staff Turnover Rates: 2024 DBA Annual Survey Report

By Design Business Association
Available to download and utilising data from the 2024 DBA Annual Survey Report, this special report focuses on staff turnover trends within agencies across the last three years.

Financial, HR

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Data on Staff Benefits: 2024 DBA Annual Survey Report

By Design Business Association
Available to download and utilising data from the 2024 DBA Annual Survey Report, this special report focuses on DBA member staff benefits including pensions, parental leave, health and travel benefits and bonuses.

Financial, HR

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Benchmarking for micro-agencies: 2024 DBA Annual Survey Report

By Design Business Association
Available to download and utilising data from the 2024 DBA Annual Survey Report, we have taken the respones of agencies with one to five people and created this report specifically for micro-agencies to enable them to benchmark their business performance, income, fees, how they use freelancers and more.

Financial, HR

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2024 DBA Annual Survey Report Launch | DBA member-only webinar

By Design Business Association
The DBA Annual Survey Report gives you the most comprehensive analysis of fees, salaries, and trends in the UK design sector. It’s your essential tool for benchmarking financial performance against businesses just like yours.

Financial

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Why ‘good enough’ is good enough: The decision making sweet spot with David C. Baker | DBA Webinar

By Design Business Association
Are you a quick decision maker that’s too focused on the short term? Are you thinking of the long term and missing what’s happening next week, next quarter, next year? Are there just too many decisions to make? David C. Baker helps us find that decision making sweet spot.

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DBA Annual General Meeting 2024

By Design Business Association
We were delighted to welcome Louise French, Studio Operations Director at forpeople, Andrew Lindsay, Global Head of Enterprise Design at Kraft Heinz and Matt Round, Chief Creative Officer at tangerine to the DBA board of directors at our Annual General Meeting.

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The human side of innovation, a fireside chat with Mauro Porcini, Chief Design Officer at PepsiCo | DBA Webinar

By Design Business Association
How do you create an environment where innovation can thrive? Mauro Porcini, Chief Design Officer at PepsiCo was in conversation with Deborah Dawton, Chief Executive at the DBA, explores how you can nurture a space where design can have the greatest impact.

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Developing a PR and media strategy for design agencies

By Design Business Association
Why should design agencies engage in PR? How do you get started? The DBA's Adam Fennelow puts these questions and more to accredited DBA Expert Katherine Sandford-Anderson in this Q&A video, which is supported by a downloadable PR guide for design.

Strategy development

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