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Designing your life.

Design and prototype your life using design thinking based on Bill Burnett and Dave Evan's book.

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What is Designing Your Life about?

Designing Your Life is a 2016 book by Bill Burnett and Dave Evan that is based on the course they teach at Stanford university.

The book walks readers through the process of designing a fulfilling and joyful life using design thinking methodology that is usually applied only to products and services. Design thinking is a human-centered problem-solving approach that focuses on understanding the needs of the user, in this case you, then identifying problems, generating ideas, creating prototypes and testing solutions.

How do I use this template?

The template we provide follows the structure of the book and makes it easy to follow along and complete the exercises. We've also included some notes and definitions in case you don't have the book open while you do the exercises.

If you complete the steps in the template you should get right up to the point where you start considering jobs that align with your ideal life.

Be sure to check out the Designing your life website for more information on the book.

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