Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life [B0843]

2016 HCDJ in nice clean condition. 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.

From recent Amazon/GoodReads reviews: "I started reading this book over three years ago. Not sure why I didn't finish it back but this time, it came to me at a moment when I felt a bit lost, faced with thousands ideas of how to change my career and unsure which to choose and how to start. After reading the book, I feel much more confident about the future and the changes I want to make in my life. It acted like a coach or mentor. It asked the right questions at the right time and offered really nice frameworks that helped me get my ideas down on paper and see them in perspective."; "Honestly good, helped me come up with ways to decide what career might suit me best. Recommend if you are stuck in your career or choosing one."; "It's hard to review a book that promises so much. There are some good practices in here, and I think revisiting some of the exercises over time will be helpful!"; "The book was interesting but not really for me since I just retired. There are other books that fit my stage of life better. The authors mention that the methods can be used for many things but the focus is on finding a career."