Design the Life You Love: A Step-by-Step Guide to Building a Meaningful Future

Ayse Birsel

Oct 2015 · Sold by Ten Speed Press

About this ebook

An interactive journal that serves as a joyful, inspirational guide to building the life you've always dreamed of, using the principles and creative process of an award-winning product designer.

Life, just like a design problem, is full of constraints -- time, money, age, location, and circumstances. You can’t have everything, so you have to be creative to make what you want and what you need co-exist. Design the Life You Love is a joyful, inspirational guide to building the life you’ve always wanted, using the principles and creative process of an award-winning product designer. Through four steps that reveal hidden skills and wisdom, anyone can design a life they love!

Ratings and reviews

It's a fantastic book with soft reading and light humor. You can enjoy a design process backstage while deconstructing your life as a project - what it can bring interesting insights and outputs! I have a physical version to keep myself redoing sometimes as a creative exercise (and different life moments) as well I usually lend it to many different people who is looking for creative ways to rethink their lifes!

Excellent visual instructional that keeps you involved each step of the way through short exercises that encourage you to view your life from various lenses. As someone who works best visually, this was a great book that helped me gain some interesting new perspectives.

About the author

AYSE BIRSEL has been designing award-winning products for over twenty years. She is the co-founder of Birsel + Seck, an innovative design studio in New York that partners with leading brands and Fortune 500 companies. She teaches at SVA and has taught at the Pratt Institute. Her work is in the permanent collections of the MOMA and Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum. She has received numerous design awards, including the IDEA Gold Award, ID Magazine Excellence Award, and Athena Award for Excellence in Furniture Design from RISD.