Hi. I’m Scott Berkun.
I write best-selling books, give talks, and spend an unusual amount of time exploring how we actually work, create, lead, and live.
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Building better teams, making better decisions, and rethinking how work gets done.
Why Design Is Hard
Why Design is Hard The sequel to How Design Makes The World, written for designers. It teaches designers how to reframe their biggest frustrations working in organizations into solvable problems. Designers want to believe their ideas will be adored and they will influence big decisions, yet most of the time others make the decisions designers […]
The Year Without Pants: WordPress.com & the Future of Work
An Amazon.com Best Book of 2013. This behind the scenes story of the 8th most popular website in the U.S., where everyone works from home, no one uses email and dozens of improvements launch to customers every day.
Author of the New York Times bestsellers“This book will undoubtedly increase your abilities to invent, innovate, inspire, and make things that matter. It’s fun, it’s funny, and it’s phenomenally effective.”
Reality is Broken and SuperBetter
Author of the Nexus Trilogy“A fun, funny, no-BS guide to finding new ideas and finishing them. Instantly useful.”
Creative Director“I just finished — and recommend — Berkun’s latest book, “Why Design is Hard.” the real struggle, the daily grind, is not so much about the work but about contexts, constraints, and personalities that make designers question their very existence.
Scott’s book is concise, breezy, yet filled with excellent strategies for succeeding when the world — or, at least, your organization—is tilted against you.”
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