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My Year in Highlights
Here are this year’s highlights from my reading on the kindle. I find it interesting that I barely highlit […]
10 Ways to Read More Books Next Year
After reading 70 books, Austin Kleon listed his advice on reading more books. I hit my personal adult reading […]
Favorite Reads in 2014
In 2014, I went everywhere. That’s a topic for another post. But travel means lots and lots of […]
A Booklist to Help You Become Great at User Experience Design
If someone wanted to become great at UX design, what is the ONE book you'd recommend they read, […]
Designers and Doctors
Several years back, John Zapolski urged all the members of my design team to read Atul Gawnde’s essay […]
Tell Me a Story
Truth, naked and cold, had been turned away from every door in the village. Her nakedness frightened the […]
Elements of <insert style here>
In honor of this week’s essay in B&A on Strunk and White, I offer up this proof of […]
Five Dysfunctions of a Team
Buy this, read this. I’ll say more about why later. The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership […]
page numbers
This morning I found my Sandman Companion still open to the page I was on when I left […]
1/3 reviews
I’m still in a state of never reading just one book. In fact, I’m pretty sure except for […]
Intuition
A while back I was reading Working Knowledge in which Davenport wrote “Intuition is compressed knowledge.” That phrase […]
Designing Motivation
Excerpt from Comic Wars, a book on Marvel Comic’s near bankruptcy and uncanny recovery: “[Jim] Shooter had a […]
Frames
Don’t Think of an Elephant: Know Your Values and Frame the Debate–The Essential Guide for Progressives It’s too […]
What the CEO Wants You to Know
What the CEO Wants You to Know : How Your Company Really Works should go into your carry-on […]
The Art of Branding
The Art of Branding is a simple slim book full of pictures and graphs that explains Brand creation […]
Origin of Things
Can a book be deeply flawed and still be worth having? The Origin of Things delights and disappoints […]
buy one for a friend — or enemy
I just read Purple Cow, which took me all of half a day. It’s fast, easy, and a […]
Make It Bigger
The book I’m foisting on my team these days is Paula Scher’s Make It Bigger. Make It Bigger […]
Persuasive Technology
Persuasive Technology is in turns fascinating and sinister. This book is a must for any designer working in […]
more comics
What do you do when you are working on a project that takes every ounce of your brainpower? […]
eat me….
Compelling story, beautiful illustration, skilled writing, puzzling ending… well worth a read or four: Murder Mysteries
Design of Sites
One of the books I used to dream of writing was “a pattern language for the web.” Well, […]
small thoughts writ large
As I creak through the last of the book, and work on a difficult project I find myself […]
Information Architecture, Blueprints for the Web
Amazon.com: Books: Information Architecture: Blueprints for the Web Since I’m biased, I’ll let Don Norman do my talking […]
Rapid Reading
My latestest entry in the favorite slim book category is Rapid Problem Solving With Post-It Notes. While it […]
Sorting it out
Finally got around to finishing Sorting Things Out (thanks Caltrain!) and I have mixed feelings. It is desperately […]
Form follows content
Was updating my booklist, and came across this old letter that I had been given permission to post, […]
Poetics of space
Those who deal with metadata, and trying to decide an item’s true place in a hierarchy might consider […]
Designing Visual Interfaces
Michael B. Moore writes “A thin but very good primer on what makes good interfaces work. Even though […]