Design your life

Applying Design on Life

Ever questioned your life choices? A designer’s mindset can bring creativity and clarity, transforming challenges into opportunities to get yourself unstuck. Regardless of your background, age, or experience, adopting this mindset allows you to design and navigate your personal and professional journey.

A Designer's

Mindset

in Action

A Designer's

Mindset

in Action

A Designer's Mindset

in Action

Why not use a designer's Mindset for yourself?

Everything around you exists because someone, potentially a designer or a team, wanted to solve a problem to enhance our lives. Otherwise we might be still sitting on rocks and wonder why our butts hurt. We are already the designers of our lives, reshaping the use of products in our daily routines like sticking a candle on top of an empty whine bottle and reuse it as candle holder. There countless examples like this that you may know from yourself.

How to go from your
vision to reality?

Check your life
Evaluate where you stand and what needs improvement. Focus on what matters most to you to avoid feeling overwhelmed. For example, if considering a career change, rate your satisfaction and identify where change is needed.
Sort Must-haves from Nice-to-haves
Keep it real. Determine what is achievable given your circumstances to maintain a realistic approach. If you work full time but aspire to be an ever-present parent, align your goals with the available time otherwise it will be a losing game battling against facts. So prioritize your essentials, in the example of career change you might want to gather information first.
Open your mind to possibilities
Let your creativity flow. Explore any idea that brings you closer to your vision. Use visuals, jot down thoughts, or draw to capture your thoughts. For a career change, ideas may include networking, scheduling coffee dates, assessing required skills, and reaching out to mentors.
Check for practicality
Take a closer look at your ideas. What is short-term and what is mid-term? Consider the gains from each idea and achievable withing your given time frame. For instance, increasing your network can provide valuable insights, critical feedback, and potential job opportunities may take longer but add value to your job applications.
Create small experiments
Start trying out your experiments in a quick and practical manner to collect insights. Set specific goals for each of your experiments to know when they are done and give you the information you need. In the case of career change, it could be talking to a set number of people to gather information about the industry.
Check what worked, what didn’t, why
Reflect on your experiments outcome. Determine what aligns with your vision and what needs to be discarded. This step refined your next moves. For instance, evaluate the information gathered from networking to refine your next steps, you may want to talk to very specific people now.
Refine and narrow down your ideas further
Now eqipped with new insights, conduct more trials to refine your ideas. Narrow down your options, keeping the ones that bring you closer to your vision.

By continually experimenting and evaluating, you filter possibilities, inching closer to the life you want to design or a vision you want to make reality. The bonus: with each trial you find new insights that open up your radius of possibilities and you may find something along the way that enhances your idea you want to bring to life.

How to go from your
vision to reality?

Check your life
Evaluate where you stand and what needs improvement. Focus on what matters most to you to avoid feeling overwhelmed. For example, if considering a career change, rate your satisfaction and identify where change is needed.
Sort Must-haves from Nice-to-haves
Keep it real. Determine what is achievable given your circumstances to maintain a realistic approach. If you work full time but aspire to be an ever-present parent, align your goals with the available time otherwise it will be a losing game battling against facts. So prioritize your essentials, in the example of career change you might want to gather information first.
Open your mind to possibilities
Let your creativity flow. Explore any idea that brings you closer to your vision. Use visuals, jot down thoughts, or draw to capture your thoughts. For a career change, ideas may include networking, scheduling coffee dates, assessing required skills, and reaching out to mentors.
Check for practicality
Take a closer look at your ideas. What is short-term and what is mid-term? Consider the gains from each idea and achievable withing your given time frame. For instance, increasing your network can provide valuable insights, critical feedback, and potential job opportunities may take longer but add value to your job applications.
Create small experiments
Start trying out your experiments in a quick and practical manner to collect insights. Set specific goals for each of your experiments to know when they are done and give you the information you need. In the case of career change, it could be talking to a set number of people to gather information about the industry.
Check what worked, what didn’t, why
Reflect on your experiments outcome. Determine what aligns with your vision and what needs to be discarded. This step refined your next moves. For instance, evaluate the information gathered from networking to refine your next steps, you may want to talk to very specific people now.
Refine and narrow down your ideas further
Now eqipped with new insights, conduct more trials to refine your ideas. Narrow down your options, keeping the ones that bring you closer to your vision.

By continually experimenting and evaluating, you filter possibilities, inching closer to the life you want to design or a vision you want to make reality. The bonus: with each trial you find new insights that open up your radius of possibilities and you may find something along the way that enhances your idea you want to bring to life.

How to go from your
vision to reality?

Check your life
Evaluate where you stand and what needs improvement. Focus on what matters most to you to avoid feeling overwhelmed. For example, if considering a career change, rate your satisfaction and identify where change is needed.
Sort Must-haves from Nice-to-haves
Keep it real. Determine what is achievable given your circumstances to maintain a realistic approach. If you work full time but aspire to be an ever-present parent, align your goals with the available time otherwise it will be a losing game battling against facts. So prioritize your essentials, in the example of career change you might want to gather information first.
Open your mind to possibilities
Let your creativity flow. Explore any idea that brings you closer to your vision. Use visuals, jot down thoughts, or draw to capture your thoughts. For a career change, ideas may include networking, scheduling coffee dates, assessing required skills, and reaching out to mentors.
Check for practicality
Take a closer look at your ideas. What is short-term and what is mid-term? Consider the gains from each idea and achievable withing your given time frame. For instance, increasing your network can provide valuable insights, critical feedback, and potential job opportunities may take longer but add value to your job applications.
Create small experiments
Start trying out your experiments in a quick and practical manner to collect insights. Set specific goals for each of your experiments to know when they are done and give you the information you need. In the case of career change, it could be talking to a set number of people to gather information about the industry.
Check what worked, what didn’t, why
Reflect on your experiments outcome. Determine what aligns with your vision and what needs to be discarded. This step refined your next moves. For instance, evaluate the information gathered from networking to refine your next steps, you may want to talk to very specific people now.
Refine and narrow down your ideas further
Now eqipped with new insights, conduct more trials to refine your ideas. Narrow down your options, keeping the ones that bring you closer to your vision.

By continually experimenting and evaluating, you filter possibilities, inching closer to the life you want to design or a vision you want to make reality. The bonus: with each trial you find new insights that open up your radius of possibilities and you may find something along the way that enhances your idea you want to bring to life.