Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life

Burnett, Bill; Evans, Dave

ISBN 10: 1101875321 / ISBN 13: 9781101875322

Published by Knopf, 2016

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clean copy, no writing, no highlighting, no markings. Designers create worlds and solve problems using design thinking. Look around your office or home at 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.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life
• Publisher: Knopf
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1101875321
• ISBN 13: 9781101875322
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Good

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Synopsis

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • At last, a book that shows you how to build—design—a life you can thrive in, at any age or stage • “Life has questions. They have answers.” —The New York Times

Designers create worlds and solve problems using design thinking. Look around your office or home—at 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.

About the Author

BILL BURNETT is the executive director of the Design Program at Stanford.

DAVE EVANS is an adjunct lecturer in the Product Design Program at Stanford, a management consultant, and a co-founder of Electronic Arts

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