Using Design Thinking for Life
from Talk Cocktail Hosted by Jeff Schechtman
Look around your home or office, or even your car. Everything there was designed. Albeit not always well. Sometimes with an eye towards function, sometimes looking at form and sometimes with thought into the human interface. Wouldn't it be great if everything was designed with equal parts engineering, aesthetics and a real understand of how human beings will interface with whatever it is? That methodology, that combination of humanity and art and engineering is what’s now called Design Thinking. It’s an important part of Silicon Valley’s disruption and progress But imagine if the same concepts could apply not just to computers or to a mouse or a phone, but to your entire life? In many schools today these idea of Design Thinking are combining with project based curriculum and human centered collaborating and producing the future leaders of the 21st Century. Two of the leader in all of this are Stanford’s Bill Burnett and Dave Evans. They are the authors of Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life. My conversation with Bill Burnett and Dave Evans: Get full access to Talk Cocktail Podcast at jeffschechtman.substack.com/subscribe
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