Designing Your Life
by Bill Burnett & Dave Evans · Bill Burnett & Dave Evans
Stanford design-thinking instructors Bill Burnett and Dave Evans adapt d.school methods, including prototyping, reframing problems, and bias toward action, to career and life planning. Readers learn exercises for generating and testing multiple possible life and career paths.
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