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Bill Burnett (Author)
Bill Burnett is 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 original Star Wars
action 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 Evans is the Co-Founder 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 interactive and game software developer Electronic
Arts.
A gem amid self-help dross... The authors make the case that design
skills such as reframing, prototyping and brainstorming can help us
make better career and life choices, or undo bad choices before
they do more harm. One idea: keep a diary noting how much you enjoy
each task — and think about how to do more of the tasks you
love
*Financial Times*
You’re going to learn how to find a fulfilling career. You’re going
to learn how to better navigate life’s big-moment decisions and
kill your “wicked problems” dead... Design thinking, as rendered in
the book, is about treating life in a more improvisational way.
It’s a welcome counterbalance to the data-driven, engineering
mind-set gripping the culture. Follow Mr. Burnett’s and Mr. Evans’s
teachings, and the anxiety-ridden process of decision making
suddenly seems more playful. Their method is experiential and
accepts that failure is part of the process
*New York Times*
Their philosophy is that by applying a Silicon Valley-tested design
approach, we can all build lives that will suit us better –
regardless of our age... I sketched my own plans, which unearthed
dreams I’d never really articulated, or hadn’t thought about in
over a decade. I drew an alternative life, in which I would work
with photographers at a gallery or an art publisher. The process
gave me an ego boost – maybe I’m not a one-trick pony – and filled
me with a sense of possibility that reminded me of being a kid
*Pool*
Life has questions. They have answers
*New York Times*
A Designing Your Life class has become one of Silicon Valley's most
popular courses... Two academic studies have now proved its ability
to cut anxiety on the career front and help people each their goals
whatever their age... Crucially, your life is not a problem to be
solved. It's an experience, and the fun comes from designing it
*Daily Mail*
Numerous studies suggest we’re generally miserable at work... The
book was born out of the eponymous course Burnett and Evans teach
at Stanford and uses techniques that anyone familiar with design
thinking will instantly recognize to allow us to take control of
our lives... With change likely to be a growing presence in all of
our lives, the basic design principles outlined above could prove
invaluable in helping us to create the kind of life we want
*Forbes*
[Bill Burnett and Dave Evans] bring a rigorous approach to
rethinking your life (with a major focus on work) and have been
credited with revolutionising careers coaching in American
universities... [Designing Your Life] teaches you how to change
what’s not working by turning ideas on their head. I think of it as
Bill and Dave’s Excellent Adventure: How To Stop Driving Yourself
Mad With Unnecessary Drama And Anxiety
*Pool*
Everyone should read this book!
*Ina Garten, Barefoot Contessa*
Bill and Dave's session was one of the highlights of FutureFest
2016. Hundreds of people packed into The Social Stage, a relatively
small space, to see them; the laughter from their audience was
heard throughout the venue. Clearly they made a significant impact
as they managed to sell more books than all the other speakers at
FutureFest combined
*FutureFest*
There is no design problem more challenging than figuring out what
we are going to do with our life . . . Bill Burnett and Dave Evans
are bringing their powerful insights to readers everywhere to help
them create a productive and happy life . . . This [is] the career
book of the next decade and . . . the go-to book that is read as a
rite of passage whenever someone is ready to create a life they
love --
*David Kelley, Founder of the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at
Stanford*
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