For ten years or so I've been putting down my thoughts on design, and technology, and ethics. Essays after essay. Some of those essays get turned into talks, some of them get blown out into books, but the essay has always been the native form for all these. I am, at heart, an essay writer. I love the form. It's long enough to be nuanced, and short enough to get it out immediately. All the essays here have already appeared somewhere. Some might be familiar. But I thought it'd be nice to get them all in one book. Cause man I love holding a book, and flipping through it, and writing notes in the margins. Also, I added a bunch of footnotes to the essays. So that's new.

The book is broken up into three sections: the more recent stuff on ethics, responsibility, and race; a section where I throw rocks at Silicon Valley; and a more practical section about design basics, which is where this whole mess got started. I just wanted to help you get paid, remember that? Lordy, it's been a journey.

Le secret de réussite d’un design web réside dans uneimplication égale et un partenariat harmonieux entre l’équipe de design et son client. Pourtant, pour la plupart des gens qui font appel au service d’un web designer, le processus de création reste un mystère.

Suite à son premier ouvrage Métier web designer, Mike Monteiro s’adresse cette fois à ses clients et démystifie pour eux le processus de design d’un site web afin de lespréparer à bien jouer leur rôle ; il leur apprend à poserles bonnes questions, à donner un feedback constructif et efficace et à embaucher l’agence ou le designer le plus adapté à leur produit. Une lecture indispensable pour devenir le client idéal de tous les web designers !