Are You a Self-Limiting Designer?
“self-limiting – an organism or person that limits its own growth by its actions.” Do you want to make plans…
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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,…
Leading Design Festival 2021 – Live Notes
Here are my notes from Leading Design Festival 2021, liveblogged (recorded in real time and updated as I go).…
Design During Pandemic: a Visual History
Design, good and bad, is central to the human response to the COVID crisis. From the design of respirators,…
The World Needs Designers Now More Than Ever
When Dr. Jan Mikulicz-Radecki designed the first surgical mask, he was questioned by his peers: they didn’t believe that…
How Creative Friction Can Help Your Team
Creative abrasion is Jerry Hirshberg’s term for the kinds of friction that helps develop better ideas. Hirshberg, a former design…
Why Designers Hate Politics (And What To Do About It)
People who design things for a living depend on optimism. To do their job well, whether it’s designing websites or…
The proof that we’re all creative: losing your keys
On Tuesdays I write about the top voted question on Ask Berkun (see the lovely archive). This week’s question is from Crysel…
Are engineers more creative than designers?
On Tuesdays, I write about the top voted question on Ask Berkun (see the lovely archive). This week’s question came via email…
Does the attention economy make life harder for creatives?
On Tuesdays I write about the top voted question on Ask Berkun (see the lovely archive). This week’s question came from Daniel…
Notes from Seanwes conference 2017
I spoke at the Seanwes conference in Austin,TX this week about the Dance of the Possible. Here are my…
Notes from PPP 2017 Chicago
I spoke this morning at Prototypes, Process and Play, in Chicago about The Dance of The possible (slides, sketchnotes). Here…
Inside the messy invention of the microwave oven
[In 23 days my latest book, The Dance of the Possible: the mostly honest completely irreverent guide to creativity,…
How the Post-it Note Was Invented
[In 27 days my latest book, The Dance of the Possible: the mostly honest completely irreverent guide to creativity,…
Why no one cared about the Wright brothers airplane
[In 28 days my latest book, The Dance of the Possible: the mostly honest completely irreverent guide to creativity,…
The Dance of the Possible
The Dance of the Possible is a short book that captures my best advice from years of work as a…
The Simple Plan for People Who Want To Solve Big Problems
[This is an excerpt from chapter 12, of the bestseller, The Myths of Innovation] The Simple Plan If you want…
Why Do Idiots Get Ahead?
On Tuesdays I often write about the top voted question on Ask Berkun (see the archive). This week’s question is…
5 Things I Learned From My Amtrak Writer’s Residency
Last month I took a long train ride from Atlanta to Seattle over six days for my Amtrak Writer’s…
Questions For The Next Design Revolution
(I gave the opening comments at a keynote panel on The Next Industrial Design Revolution for IDSA’s Future of…