5 steps to designing the life you want

Name: 5 steps to designing the life you want
Uploaded: 2021-02-11T19:27:55Z
Duration: 25 min 23 s
Description: Designers spend their days dreaming up better products and better worlds, and you can use their thinking to re-envision your own life, says design professor Bill Burnett. He shares five tips to try, whether you're at the start of your career or contemplating your next act.

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TEDxStanford

• April 2017

Designers spend their days dreaming up better products and better worlds, and you can use their thinking to re-envision your own life, says design professor Bill Burnett. He shares five tips to try, whether you're at the start of your career or contemplating your next act.

This talk was presented to a local audience at TEDxStanford, an independent event.

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Bill Burnett

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Bill Burnett is the executive director of the Product Design program and an adjunct professor in Mechanical Engineering Design at Stanford. In addition, Burnett has worked at startups and Fortune 100 companies, including seven years at Apple designing award-winning notebook computers and a number of years in the toy industry designing Star Wars toys.

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