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L I FE D ESIGN
What do you want to
be when you
grow Up?
H
ow do you find a job you like - or
maybe even love? How do you
find a balance between work
and life? Whether you are 20 or 50,
these are fundamental questions and can
be the source of anxiety.
Nobody can predict the future, but the
good news is you can look to inventors
(designers) to help answer these questions.
ENGI NEERI NG CHANGE
Many great innovations start with a
reframe. For instance, you start out
thinking you are designing a product
(such as a new coffee blend and new coffee
machine) and reframe when you realise
you are actually redesigning the coffee
experience (that's the story of Starbucks).
The reframe is the key to opening up the
possibility of new and innovative solutions.
This idea of reframing, prototyping and
designing your life comes from a class that
myself and lecturer, Dave Evans, have been
Life is ever-changing
so it needs a creative,
flexible approach to
career planning, says
Bill Burnett, executive
director of the Design
Programme at
Stanford University
Four-fifths of jobs
are never advertised,
so don't waste hours
on the internet
searching for roles.
Get networking
instead
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teaching at Stanford University, California,
for the past eight years, offering a pretty
simple framework and some neat design
tools for 'Life Design'.
MU LTI P LE C H OI C E
The biggest reframe we teach our students is
that your life can't be planned, that there
isn't one solution, and that's actually a good
thing. There are many possible designs for
your life, all filled with hope for the kind
of creative and unfolding reality that
makes life worth living.
Your life is not a problem to be solved,
it's an experience, and the fun and learning
comes from designing with the experience.
So the question, 'What do I want to be
when I grow up?' becomes, 'Who or what
do I want to grow into as my life unfolds?'.
We developed the class for Millennials
in the US, but students in the UK face
many of the same challenges. With high
unemployment, a post-Brexit economic
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