New book update: Rules to live by
For my tenth book, about wisdom, I’ve been experimenting with Substack, posting draft ideas each week. In a recent video…
Category: General
When should my free office hours happen?
For the launch of my latest book, Why Design Is Hard, I did weekly office hours every Thursday on…
Leading Design 2022: Live Notes
I’m in NYC for Leading Design 2022, and I’m livebloging the event (taking notes in real time, updated for…
A big update on my last few months
This is my first blog post in almost six months, the longest lapse I’ve ever had. Hi! How have…
Audiobook for How Design Makes The World
Excited to announce the audiobook for How Design Makes The World is now available on most platforms. I worked…
The Greatest Design Lessons: Tue. June 8th (live)
Two weeks from today tune in for this live presentation on the greatest design lessons I know. It’s a…
How Design Makes The World: Typos and corrections?
Did you read How Design Makes the World? Thanks. I’m glad you did. If you found any any typos…
UX Design: The most difficult concepts to explain (list)
Last week I asked on twitter which concepts were hardest for UX designers to explain to their teams. As…
My answers to the Proust Questionnaire: What Are Yours?
They say the web is decaying all the time and it’s true. When sites redesign they break hundreds or…
Audiobooks are finally here
It’s taken quite a few years but the audiobook versions for three of my most popular books have finally…
Bring Berkun and How Design Makes The World to your team meeting
Does your creative team need a morale boost? Perhaps some inspiring new stories of how to design and engineer…
(video) 5 minutes to explain How Design Makes the World
Yesterday I’d planned to do a livestream about ideas from the new book, but Twitter/Periscope refused to allow it…
LIST: 60+ well designed everyday things that go unnoticed
With the new book coming out, I’m running a little contest on Twitter. Best three answers get a signed…
It’s Time To Learn
Yesterday my feed had many references to a new Marc Andressen essay titled It’s Time to Build. I understand…
Free pass to Interaction 20
[UPDATE – WINNER HAS BEEN CHOSEN: will reveal who won once they confirm.] I have a free conference pass…
Cover design vote: How Design Makes The World (first round)
My next book, which teaches just about everyone how to understand good design, is on the home stretch (release…
Public Speaking Workshop: April 8th 6:30pm
(Hi folks – the blog has been quiet for awhile. Good to be back! I’ll explain more soon. Happy…
Contest: Take a photo and win free signed books (+$100)
Do you like to take photos? Do you own at least one of my books? Then this contest is…
How to master the ways to say NO
On Tuesdays I write about the top voted question on Ask Berkun (see the lovely archive). This week’s question came from Sam…
Why do people fall into the trap of the narcissist?
On Tuesdays I write about the top voted question on Ask Berkun (see the archive). This week’s question came from J. Mill…