Read the first three chapters in a PDF:
Table of Contents
- Everything Has a Design
- Building vs. Designing
- What Is Good?
- People Come First
- Everyone Designs Something
- The Street You Live On
- Style Is a Message
- Design Is How It Works
- Someone Has to Pay
- The Powerful Decide
- Design Is a Verb
- The Pass in Your Pocket
- Ideas and Systems
- The Design Reflects the Team
- The Way We Think Matters
- Values and Tradeoffs
- Design Is How It Flows
- Design for Conflict
- Solutions Create Problems
- How to See: A Design Checklist: for Your World
Several magazines have published web excerpts of the book including: