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.