Designing Your Life (E-Book, EPUB)

eBook - Build a Life that Works for You
ISBN/EAN: 9781473522312
Sprache: Englisch
Umfang: 240 S., 6.99 MB
Format: EPUB
DRM: Nicht vorhanden
A well-designed life means a life well-lived.Whether youre 20, 40, 60 or older, many of us are still looking for an answer to that perennial question, What do I want to be when I grow up? The phenomenally successful Life Design course, devised by Silicon Valley design innovators Bill Burnett and Dave Evans, has been tried and tested by thousands of people, from students to mid-career professionals to retirees contemplating a whole new future. Now in book form for the first time, their simple method will teach you how to use basic design tools to create a life that will work for you.Using lots of real-life stories and proven techniques like reframing, prototyping and mind-mapping you will learn how to build your way forwards, step-by-positive-step, to a life thats better by a design of your own making.
Bill Burnett (Author) Bill Burnettis the Executive Director of the Design Program at Stanford. He got his BS and MS in Product Design at Stanford and has worked professionally on a wide variety of projects ranging from award-winning Apple PowerBooks to the originalStar Warsaction figures. He holds a number of mechanical and design patents, and design awards for a variety of products including the first slate computer.Dave Evans (Author) Dave Evansis the Co-Director of the Stanford Life Design Lab and holds a BS and MS in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford. Early in his career he worked for Apple, where he led the mouse-design team and introduced laser printing to the masses. He then helped found the pioneering video games developer Electronic Arts.