The Best of My 20 Years of Writing on Design

If you’re familiar with my my books and talks, you know I’ve written about many subjects, including creativity, leadership, public speaking, and philosophy, but back in 2000 I mostly wrote about design.

Before I became a full-time writer, I worked for years as a PM on UX projects like Windows and Internet Explorer, and eventually became the design advocate for Microsoft, where my job was to teach and promote good design across the company. I thought someday I’d write a short primer style book on good design, I just didn’t anticipate it would take 20 years until I did it with How Design Makes The World.

For this best-of list I picked articles that were popular but are still relevant today. I hope you find something you like. Here’s my best writing on design from 1999 to 2020:

My most recent essay, How To Put Faith in Design, is my best design essay so far this year. You can also visit all 170+ posts from the design archive. Or my best posts of all time.

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