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

At last, a book that shows you how to build–design–a life you can thrive in, at any age or stage

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.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Start Where You Are
Chapter 2. Building a Compass
Chapter 3. Wayfinding
Chapter 4. Getting Unstuck
Chapter 5. Design Your Lives
Chapter 6. Prototyping
Chapter 7. How Not to Get a Job
Chapter 8. Designing Your Dream Job
Chapter 9. Choosing Happiness
Chapter 10. Failure Immunity
Chapter 11. Building a Team