Applying design thinking to your personal life
summary
Claim: using product-design rituals makes personal change manageable by breaking life into parts and recombining them. Workshop tools include a deconstruction map and timed exercises to list 15–20 “ingredients,” a four quadrants grid (emotional, physical, intellect, spirit), hero-attribute sketches, metaphors for today vs. tomorrow, and a choice of vision graphic to-do list or manifesto. Participants build concrete next steps (short/long term, playful/serious); the method is practised live and repeatedly iterated.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Introduction to life design
- 1:32The deconstruction method
- 3:39Deconstruction map activity
- 7:31Mapping life quadrants
- 10:40Identifying opportunity gaps
- 13:42Reframing through heroes
- 17:12Visualizing the present
- 20:05Visualizing the future
- 22:58Reconstruction and selection
- 27:13Creative expression
- 31:18Q&A and final conclusions
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