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In this episode of The Optimal Path, Hannah Anokye joins host Ash Oliver to discuss her work on the Intuit Futures Team and the role of qualitative research in exploring emerging technologies, understanding users' needs, and identifying opportunities for new product developments.Hannah shares best practices for conducting moderated user interviews and how to generate insights that spark ideas and drive growth. Discover how integrating user-centric approaches in qualitative research nurtures innovation and redefines mental models, leading to more resonant and effective product solutionsAbout Hannah:Hannah is a product innovation practitioner with a unique background. Through a career with titles in product marketing, user research, and now product management, her through line has been user-centered experiences that drive meaningful impact.Most recently as a Senior User Experience Researcher on Intuit's Futures team, Hannah explored how Generative AI technology could be responsibly and meaningfully integrated across the Intuit product ecosystem.She recently transitioned into a product management role, focused on building the next generation of AI-driven products for Intuit's future customers.Connect with Hannah:You can connect with Hannah on LinkedInResources:Interviewing users by Steve PortigalDesigning Your Life - How to Build a Well-Lived Joyful Life by Bill Burnett and Dave EvanUnpacking User Interviews: Turning Conversations into Insights by MazeFollow Maze on Social Media:X: @mazedesignHQInstagram: @mazedesignHQLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/mazedesignTo get notified when new episodes come out, subscribe at maze.co/podcast.See you next time!
"Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life" by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans offers a fresh approach to living a fulfilling life by applying design thinking principles. The book invites readers to actively shape their lives rather than just going with the flow. It's all about trying new things, staying open to change, and building a life that reflects your values and interests. The authors highlight five key aspects of being a life designer. First, stay curious - approach life with a sense of wonder and exploration. Second, try stuff - don't be afraid to experiment and learn from mistakes. Third, reframe problems - look at challenges from different angles to find creative solutions. Fourth, recognize that it's a journey - designing your life is an ongoing process, not a one-time deal. Finally, don't be afraid to ask for help - seek support and collaborate with others when needed. The book also offers a practical 11-step guide to designing your life. Start by assessing where you're at right now, use the compass to figure out what really matters to you, break through roadblocks by challenging any limiting beliefs you may have, and other else. You'll learn how to make informed choices that fit with your life design and prioritizing happiness means focusing on what brings you joy and fulfillment in life. By embracing the mindset of a designer, you can tackle life's challenges with creativity and confidence.
Hey Book Lovers! Welcome to the Summer 2021 GrowGetters Book Club episode. As we are on a summer/winter break, we wanted to create an episode that would be jam packed full of inspiration and practical tips to apply whilst you are on your summer break or in winter lock down. We will be kicking off Season 4 on September 1st, 2021, so stay tuned as we have a banger of a season lined up for you. So getting right down to business, we recorded this episode as a live event inside the GrowGetters Club with some extra special guests. In our Book Club episodes, we normally invite some amazing special guests to help us unpack, dissect, and discuss some of the hottest non-fiction releases that have the potential to positively impact your careers, and your lives!In this special book club episode we discuss 'Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived Joyful Life' by the godfathers of Design Thinking, Bill Burnett and Dave Evans!Designing Your Life is a super-practical, step-by-step guidebook that uses design principles to help you build the future of your dreams! The book invites us to approach our own life design challenges with the same kind of curiosity and creativity that inventors and designers have used to create innovations like the lightbulb, iPhone, and even the Internet.By reframing challenges, shifting established mindsets, and foraying into the world of prototyping - Designing Your Life is the book for anyone wanting to shape a career and lifestyle of their dreams, and make it a reality.In this special episode we had not one, but TWO very special guests join us! Our first guest was Belinda Wall, who is the Founding Director of the Australian-based marketing and brand consultancy, Brand Amplified, AND she also sits on the Advisory Board of MaxMe, an online learning platform.Brand Amplified is a business that is literally obsessed with all things brand. With a passion for storytelling, creative collaborations and success, Brand Amplified loves nothing more than working with clients on their journey from business to brand.Our second guest is GrowGetters friend, seasoned book clubber, and all-round superstar, Keltie Maguire! Keltie is a clarity coach, speaker, and podcaster herself, whose purpose is to help small business owners & professionals cut through overwhelm, get clear on their desires, and take aligned action.And of course, as always, you'll be hearing from Tanya Garma (your Book Club host for today), and GrowGetters' own startup legend and digital accelerator, Tiffany Hart!So ladies, let's get started and let's get into the brilliant book DESIGNING YOUR LIFE!PLUSWe have been building something super exciting...and that is the brand new GrowGetters Club. Are you looking to learn the most in-demand skills of the future! Do you want to join a circle of like-minded GrowGetters and be part of a movement of women ready to rise up, skill up, and be future-fit? Then if your answer is heck yes - join the waitlist today as the Club officially launches out of BETA in Q4 2021.If you enjoy listening to the pod there are a few ways you would absolutely make our day (and week, and year!!) and help support us so we can continue to create kickass content just for you!The quickest way is to make sure you click that FOLLOW button on Spotify, and hit SUBSCRIBE on Apple Podcasts (or wherever you get your poddies) to make sure you never miss an episode!And if you are an Apple Podcasts user, we would be thrilled if you can take one minute to leave us a 5-star rating and a glowing review so even more of you fabulous GrowGetters can find us!If you're more of a social media maven, then you can follow us on LinkedIn and Instagram at @growgetters.io where we post a whole swag of tips, tools, advice, and hacks on future-proofing your career!We run a weekly Clubhouse room to discuss Future-Proofing, Future Skills, The Future of Thought Leadership, and much, much more. FOLLOW US @tiffanyhart and @tanyagarma so you are notified next time we go live.And finally, don't forget to subscribe to our GrowGetters Growth Hacks newsletter on growgetters.io for a fortnightly fix of the very latest hacks, tools, models, trends, and recommended reads to help you stay in demand and in the know!To stay in touch with Belinda and Keltie - you can follow them here: BelindaInsta: https://www.instagram.com/_brandamplified_Website: http://www.brandamplified.com.au/KeltieInsta: https://www.instagram.com/keltiemaguire/Website: https://www.keltiemaguire.com/
Today's guest is a former designer from Apple who is now the Executive Director of the Stanford Design Program, and he teaches a hugely popular course at Stanford called Designing Your Life. His name is Bill Burnett and he's the co-author of the book,Designing Your Life, How to Build a Well-Lived Joyful Life. Bill has taken the principles of design that he learned at Apple and he helps people apply them to design their life. IN THIS EPISODE, YOU'LL LEARN:The importance of curiosity and how to cultivate itWhy Bias to Action is so critical when it comes to designing our livesThe role that prototyping plays in helping us move toward our best lifeWhy finding our passion is hard, but following our energy is easyHow following that energy can help us build a better lifeBOOKS AND RESOURCESDesigning Your Life, How to Build a Well-Lived Joyful Life by Bill Burnett and Dave EvansCONNECT WITH BILL BURNETTTwitter AccountWebsite: designingyour.lifeFacebook AccountGET IN TOUCH WITH SEAN MURRAYSean's Twitter AccountSean's LinkedIn AccountEmail: seanm@realtimeperformance.comWebsite: RealTime Performance, Inc.Weekly Newsletter: RealTime Performance NewsletterSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
How to build a well-lived, joyful life? You can find the answer in one of the most popular courses at Stanford University––the life design class. The life design class teaches you to make career plans using design thinking, and also to find a suitable job and live a happy life. The course also offers a lot of specific instructions, helping many students find the direction of their life and career. This book is a summary of the life design class.
Go Help Yourself: A Comedy Self-help Podcast to Make Life Suck Less
This week, Lisa and Misty conclude their review of the #1 New York Times bestseller Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans. Bill Burnett is the Executive Director of the Design Program at Stanford as well as an adjunct professor in mechanical engineering. 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 Hasbro 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. In addition to his duties at Stanford, he is a on the Board of VOZ (pronounced “VAWS – it means voice in Spanish) a socially-responsible high fashion startup and advises several Internet start-up companies. Dave Evans is a lecturer at the Product Design Program at Stanford, as well as a management consultant and c-founder of Electronic Arts. Having participated in forming the corporate cultures at Apple and EA, Dave decided his best work was in helping organizations build creative environments where people could do great work and love doing it. So he went out on his own; working with start-up teams, corporate executives, non-profit leaders, and countless young adults. They were all asking the same question. “What should I do with my life?” Helping people get traction on that question finally took Dave to Cal and Stanford and continues to be his life’s work. Dave holds a BS and MS in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford and a graduate diploma in Contemplative Spirituality from San Francisco Theological Seminary. In the second part of this Designing Your Life book review podcast, we cover the following chapters: 5. Design Your Lives 6. Prototyping 7. How Not to Get a Job 8. Designing Your Dream Job 9. Choose Happiness 10. Failure Immunity 11. Building a Team Conclusion: A Well-Designed Life If you like what you're hearing, you can purchase the book here. If you'd like to learn more about the authors, you can visit their website here. Make sure to check out our Patreon community and grab some GHY merch, too. Thanks for supporting Go Help Yourself!
Go Help Yourself: A Comedy Self-help Podcast to Make Life Suck Less
This week, Lisa and Misty review the #1 New York Times bestseller Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans. Bill Burnett is the Executive Director of the Design Program at Stanford as well as an adjunct professor in mechanical engineering. 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 Hasbro 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. In addition to his duties at Stanford, he is a on the Board of VOZ (pronounced “VAWS – it means voice in Spanish) a socially-responsible high fashion startup and advises several Internet start-up companies. Dave Evans is a lecturer at the Product Design Program at Stanford, as well as a management consultant and c-founder of Electronic Arts. Having participated in forming the corporate cultures at Apple and EA, Dave decided his best work was in helping organizations build creative environments where people could do great work and love doing it. So he went out on his own; working with start-up teams, corporate executives, non-profit leaders, and countless young adults. They were all asking the same question. “What should I do with my life?” Helping people get traction on that question finally took Dave to Cal and Stanford and continues to be his life’s work. Dave holds a BS and MS in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford and a graduate diploma in Contemplative Spirituality from San Francisco Theological Seminary. In the first part of this Designing Your Life book review podcast, we cover the following chapters: 1. Start Where You Are 2. Building a Compass 3. Wayfinding 4. Getting Unstuck Make sure to tune in next week to hear the second part of this review! If you like what you're hearing, you can purchase the book here. If you'd like to learn more about the authors, you can visit their website here. Make sure to check out our Patreon community and grab some GHY merch, too. Thanks for supporting Go Help Yourself!
In episode #74, we share a book review on how to better design your life. Creating a life that is both meaningful and fulfilling is not easy. But this book, which originated from one of the most popular elective courses in Stanford, seemed to have found the hack to designing your life.Join us as we talk about this book in Singapore’s context and learn how you can design a better life moving forward. So you can live with less stress, and navigate well even in uncertainty. Book: Designing your life by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans Leave Some Feedback:What should we talk about next? Please let us know in our Telegram.Did you enjoy this episode? If so, please leave a short review. Connect With Us:Instagram @thefinancialcoconutFacebook @thefinancialcoconutThe Financial Coconut Community Telegram TFC stock geek-out Telegram Thefinancialcoconut.com
Discovering godly healthier pleasures. Assuring contextual balance of Ecclesiastes 8:15 “Then I commended mirth, because a man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry: for that shall abide with him of his labour the days of his life, which God giveth him under the sun.” Book Reference: Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived Joyful Life, Bill Burnett & Bill Evans.
When & How To Do A Career Pivot or Change Herminia Ibarra, Charles Handy Professor of Organizational Behavior at London Business School. Working Identity: Unconventional Strategies for Reinventing Your Career by Herminia Ibarra Strong and Weak Ties: Why Weak Ties Matter Why Every Employee Should Be Building Weak Ties at Work Weak Ties Matter Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived Joyful Life by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World by David Epstein Destination Unstoppable by Maureen Electa Monte If you’re interested in learning more about my course “How to Do a Career Pivot or Change” please drop me a note at angela@thescalpellogroup.com
Today's guest is a former designer from Apple who is now the Executive Director of the Stanford Design Program, and he teaches a hugely popular course at Stanford called Designing Your Life. His name is Bill Burnett and he's the co-author of the book, Designing Your Life, How to Build a Well-Lived Joyful Life. Bill has taken the principles of design that he learned at Apple and he helps people apply them to design their life. IN THIS EPISODE, YOU'LL LEARN:The importance of curiosity and how to cultivate itWhy Bias to Action is so critical when it comes to designing our livesThe role that prototyping plays in helping us move toward our best lifeWhy finding our passion is hard, but following our energy is easyHow following that energy can help us build a better lifeBOOKS AND RESOURCESDesigning Your Life, How to Build a Well-Lived Joyful Life by Bill Burnett and Dave EvansBrowse through all our episodes (complete with transcripts) here.Support our free podcast by supporting our sponsors.CONNECT WITH BILL BURNETTTwitter AccountWebsite: designingyour.lifeFacebook AccountGET IN TOUCH WITH SEAN MURRAYSean's Twitter AccountSean's LinkedIn AccountEmail: Sean@TheInvestorsPodcast.comWebsite: RealTime Performance, Inc.Weekly Newsletter: RealTime Performance NewsletterHELP US OUT!Help us reach new listeners by leaving us a rating and review! It takes less than 30 seconds and really helps our show grow, which allows us to bring on even better guests for you all! Thank you – we really appreciate it!See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
The Covid-19 outbreak has caused major upheaval in the lives of hundreds of millions of people. Things that seemed important only a few weeks ago have faded into the background. That massive dislocation has caused many to re-evaluate both the content and the context of their lives. Some people will re-evaluate their lives based on their own initiative. For many, that re-evaluation won’t happen until it’s forced upon them. Perhaps Covid-19 will be that forcing function, even if you don’t have the misfortune of contracting the disease, the disruption caused by it could be enough to cause a reset. The silver lining could be re-evaluating your life. This month’s book is “Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well Lived Joyful Life” by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans. Nothing could be more timely than re-evaluating and re-designing your life. Since life isn’t normal now, why would you want things to go back to normal. I actually don’t want things to go back to normal. I want my life to move forward so that what emerges from this dislocation in history is better than it was before. I fancy myself a designer. I used to design microchips. Then I designed systems that would process millions of phone calls per hour. I designed hardware systems. These days I’m designing subdivisions, and buildings, and apartments. Of course this is a team effort involving architects and engineers of many disciplines. Designers love problems. Every single item that you find in your house was the result of some designer somewhere encountering a problem and coming up with a solution. That’s why you have running water. That’s why you have a dishwasher and a toaster and a chair. These things would not exist if there were no problems. They were only created in response to a problem in each single case. So if you’re going to design your life, you absolutely need problems. Lord knows, there seems to be no shortage of problems at the moment. The book is based on a design methodology that has been taught at Stanford University for over 50 years. Design thinking starts with curiosity. Often times people are working on solving the wrong problems. So perhaps a re-frame of the question of the problem can get you unstuck. Connecting the dots to create a meaningful life involves getting connecting who you are, what you believe, and what you do. When these three are connected together, you will experience a more meaningful life. But if you’re never asking yourself the questions, you won’t get clarity. More importantly, life isn’t a destination, but a journey. If you spend your entire life chasing an elusive destination, then you will have missed it. You can’t solve a problem, you’re not willing to have. If you’re not willing to accept the problem, then it’s not really a problem and it’s merely a circumstance. It’s what you choose in life that makes you happy. Designing this requires evaluating several alternate futures. The obvious first choice is to take your current path that you’re on and simply making it better If your current reality was uprooted and you needed to do a plan B, what would that be? Finally, if you had no constraints and could design your wild-card plan, would that be? Things that come up on the other plans were items that were part of the past ideas that got lost along the way. By creating three alternative life paths you will generate enough ideas to figure out where you want to go next. Prototype your life. That is try it on for size so that you will know at an emotional level if the choice works for you. Choose well. That doesn’t mean making the best, choice, but it means making the choice in a way that you’re going to let go of the other alternatives and not second guess yourself. The book design your life might be the best thing you can immerse yourself in right now when your life has been disrupted.
On this edition of BWBW, meet my girl tribe Carla, Tia, and LaVonda as we take you on a journey of triumph, determination and desire to tackle life's many struggles. Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived Joyful Life by Bill Burnett & Dave Evans: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1101875321/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_U_.wy5Db7EEB737
In this week's episode, we dive into the navigation of our futures. Learning to live with intention without obsessing over future plans is a truth we have come to understand, especially in college. When we take on this perspective, it allows us to feel more present today! Books Mentioned:Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived Joyful Life by Bill Burnett & Dave Evanshttps://designingyour.life/the-book/The Next Right Thing: A Simple, Soulful Practice for Making Life Decisions by Emily P. Freemanhttps://emilypfreeman.com/the-books/Episode three of our All (Em)bracing series. Equipping women to lead extraordinary lives by embracing their whole selves through a healthy mind, body, and spirit. Music by www.bensound.com and cover art by Christa Tousley.
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In this interview, Dave Evans & Bill Burnett, Co-authors of “Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life” discussed: Design thinking How “dysfunctional beliefs” constrain our choices Design thinking tools: reframing, empathetic thinking, Odyssey Plans Idea generation Designing Your Life for Women
Authors Bill Burnett and Dave Evans put into print the lessons they teach at Stanford in the Life Design Lab.
Create a life that matters to you. The narrative we tell ourselves frames our life. Work can’t be about survival. Rethink work. Live differently. Capitalize on the small margins of your life, they add up. Stay curious. Live adventurously. Learn to play. Love the people that you’re with. Five years later, I know I’m onto something. Quantifiable Proof Meet Bill Burnett and Dave Evans, co-authors of the Stanford course turned book providing a methodology to Designing Your Life: How to build a well-lived, joyful life. Our conversation provided me a meaningful crescendo to my two hundred and forty field reports here on Work Life Play. This book is new quantifiable proof to my work. Everbody gets stuck, start where you are Learn how problem solving used in product design can be applied to designing your life The idea of Work-Life balance is totally wrong and approaches the problem with a win-lose outcome Understand why your life needs a dashboard in five categories: Work, Life, Play, and Health & Love Dysfunctional beliefs require Reframed Thinking in order to Design Your Life You're never too late to Design Your Life
Create a life that matters to you. The narrative we tell ourselves frames our life. Work can’t be about survival. Rethink work. Live differently. Capitalize on the small margins of your life, they add up. Stay curious. Live adventurously. Learn to play. Love the people that you’re with. Five years later, I know I’m onto something. Quantifiable Proof Meet Bill Burnett and Dave Evans, co-authors of the Stanford course turned book providing a methodology to Designing Your Life: How to build a well-lived, joyful life. Our conversation provided me a meaningful crescendo to my two hundred and forty field reports here on Work Life Play. This book is new quantifiable proof to my work. Everbody gets stuck, start where you are Learn how problem solving used in product design can be applied to designing your life The idea of Work-Life balance is totally wrong and approaches the problem with a win-lose outcome Understand why your life needs a dashboard in five categories: Work, Life, Play, and Health & Love Dysfunctional beliefs require Reframed Thinking in order to Design Your Life You're never too late to Design Your Life