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Bill Burnett

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Bill Burnett is the Executive Director of the Design Program at Stanford. He got his BS and MS in Product Design at Stanford and has worked professionally on a wide variety of projects ranging from award-winning Apple PowerBooks to the original Star Wars action figures. He holds a number of mechanical and design patents, and design awards for a variety of products including the first ‘slate’ computer.

Books by Bill Burnett

Designing Your Life

This really works! In book form for the first time, the simple, scientifically proven method that has already changed thousands of lives

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Designing Your Work Life

#1 New York Times bestselling authors Bill Burnett and Dave Evans show us how design thinking can transform our present job and our experience of work in general by utilizing the designer mindsets: Curiosity. Reframing. Radical collaboration. Awareness. Bias to action. Storytelling

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The Designing Your Life Workbook

Dig deeper into the life design process that Bill Burnett and Dave Evans have made so popular with their New York Times bestseller Designing Your Life. This necessary companion to the book includes all of the option-generating tools written about in the book, so you can revisit your goals and track your progress and goals.

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