After over a decade of promising myself one day to write a book on design — and as many friends & colleagues keep pestering asking me to do so — I’m finally gonna get to it, with certain preparations underway.

I’ve spent a few days deeply mapping out my career path journey, employing the common design tools of “stickies & Sharpies” to lay things out to help me identify potential themes, stories, dramatic tensions, and insightful moments. Here are a couple snippets of that progress, to give a sense of what’s emerging…

Visual sketch of career path journey.

I’m envisioning something compact, easily digestible, with illustrations/diagrams, carrying a personal conversational tone, with maybe a section on principles and/or best practices. The books above are ones that strongly resonate with me and my evolving vision thus far…

Some collections of scribbled notes, references, with career journey mapping/analysis to identify key themes & "dramatic moments". I've been reading A LOT about writing good stories with clear characters, plot, tension, conflict, suspense, etc.

An analysis of the kind of book or story -- a personal memoir, a practical/actionable playbook, a reflective, theoretical meditation on "design". Or some blend…