A BOOK BY AMIT PATEL

The Gameof Design

What a basketball career, from the playground to legend, can teach you about growing as a designer.

In the works. A first look is coming.

Every career has a playground, a draft day and a last shot.

The Game of Design follows the arc of an NBA career and maps it onto the life of a designer. Street courts and first coaches, rookie seasons and film rooms, leading a team, and deciding what you leave behind.

Each chapter opens on the court with a player's story, from superstars to names you may have forgotten, then turns to the studio to find the skill that story was teaching all along.

For designers at every stage, the people who lead them, and anyone who grew up with a ball in their hands.

Part One

Learning the Game

Rucker Park at night. Wet asphalt, a ball in the dark.

Part Two

Going Pro

Draft night, waiting in the green room.

Part Three

In the League

Game night in the tunnel, twenty thousand people waiting.

Part Four

Leading the Team

Half-time in the locker room, down by twelve.

Part Five

The Legacy

Cleaning out the locker for the last time.

A NOTE FROM AMIT

“My first paycheque went on a portable NBA Huffy net. About $240. Best money I've ever spent. I put thousands of hours into that hoop, and years later, after a career in design and teaching thousands of designers, I realised the game had been teaching me the whole time.”

Amit Patel, founder of Experience Haus