Making Things Special: Tech Leadership from the Trenches

by Hillel Cooperman, Jenny Lam, Tom Chang (Illustrator)

Every beautifully crafted software user experience has the fingerprints of talented designers all over it. And yet, most technology teams are not led by designers. Even non-design led organizations can be hospitable homes for great designers, but most are not. If you're a designer looking to lead your organization to a future of making finely crafted software that customers fall in love with, then this book is for you. While there is no magic bullet, this book is a detailed discussion of a framework and values system in which designers can not only thrive but grow to lead engineering teams to create amazing software user experiences.

120 pages, Paperback

First published November 6, 2014

About the author

Hillel Cooperman has pretended to be a superhero since he was a small child. He conceived of the story of the Madrona Heroes in the summer of 2012 on a trip abroad with his family. By winter, he had started writing in earnest. He lives in the Madrona neighborhood of Seattle with his three children, their three cats, and thousands of Lego bricks. His superpower is procrastination. The Madrona Heroes Register is his first novel.

(Hillel also gives his books to librarians completely free of charge. So if you're a librarian, drop him a line.)

Reviews

[Brentv · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book completely resonated with me. I read it twice.