Burnett, William (Consulting professor of design),
Designing your life : how to build a well-lived, joyful life /
Bill Burnett and Dave Evans.
- First edition.
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2016.
- xxxi, 238 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Includes bibliographic references and source notes.
Introduction: life by design -- Start where you are -- Building a compass -- Wayfinding -- Getting unstuck -- Design your lives -- Prototyping -- How not to get a job -- Designing your dream job -- Choosing happiness -- Failure immunity -- Building a team -- Conclusion: a well- designed life.
Outlines strategies for enabling a thriving life by incorporating "design thinking" habits that promote fulfillment and meaning by emulating the examples of the engineers of today's most popular technologies.