Designing Your Life

Designing Your Life is the #1 New York Times Bestseller 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 Designing Your Life, 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.

At more than 1 million copies in 24 languages, Designing Your Life has made a truly global impact in empowering people to design a better life. We hope it will for you, too.

• About the Authors
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• Improvs and Warm-ups
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• The Wall Street Journal excerpt, “Design Your Way to a Happier Life.”
• The New York Times feature, “Want to Find Fulfillment at Last? Think Like a Designer.”
• Fast Company Design feature, “Designing Your (Mid) Life, No Porsche or Crisis Required.”
• The Diane Rehm Show, “Using Design Theory to Build a Better Life.”