Designing Your Life

At last a book that shows you how to builddesigna life you can thrive in at any age or stage Designers create worlds and solve problems using design thinking Look around your office or homeat the tablet or smartphone you may be holding or the chair you are sitting in Everything in our lives was designed by someone And every design starts with a problem that a designer or team of designers seeks to solve In this book Bill Burnett and Dave Evans show us how design thinking can help us create a life that is both meaningful and fulfilling regardless of who or where we are what we do or have done for a living or how young or old we are The same design thinking responsible for amazing technology products and spaces can be used to design and build your career and your life a life of fulfillment and joy constantly creative and productive one that always holds the possibility of surprise sDesigning Your Life walks readers through the process of building a satisfying meaningful life by approaching the challenge the way a designer would Experimentation Wayfinding Prototyping Constant iteration You should read the book Everyone else will Daniel Pink bestselling author of Drive sThis is the career book of the next decade and the goto book that is read as a rite of passage whenever someone is ready to create a life they love David Kelley Founder of IDEO sAn empowering book based on their popular class of the same name at Stanford University Perhaps the books most important lesson is that the only failure is settling for a life that makes one unhappy With useful factfinding exercises an empathetic tone and sensible advice this book will easily earn a place among careerfinding classics Publishers Weekly