#DesignThyselfApplying Design Principles

to Personal Growth

Lee-Sean Huang@leesean

http://www.skillshare.com/DesignThyself-Applying-Design-Principles-to-Personal-Growth/42321712/1585544573/

#1Introduction to the Course

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The “Why”

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Know thyself

Heal thyself

Design thyself

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cura_te_ipsumhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Know_thyself #DesignThyself

Use design principles to acquire a new habit/behavior, make it stick, and document it online.

The “What”

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a process/program to make an intentional and proactive personal change in your life

new skill, habit, or behavior

Health, sport, language, cooking, reading, emotional life, meditation, creative practice, etc.

Design

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Keep an ongoing blog

Document the before, during, and after of your project

Share insights, challenges, and breakthroughs and engage in dialog with your classmates

Document

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1. Have a defined scope and time span.2. Start small and fast. Break it down into chunks, missions, episodes, or quests.3. But have a big goal/epic quest in mind.4. Make it public. Make it social.5. Use existing forces, tendencies, habits.6. Build off what you know. 7. Restart something you have left behind.8. Make it emotional. FUN!9. Automate as much as you can. 10. Follow the freaks.11. It’s ok to cheat.

Project Cheat Sheet

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is is not• an experiment • a supportive creative community • an iterative work in progress• FUN

• self-help• lifehacking• an original idea• dogma

http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/08/10/10-rules-for-students-and-teachers-john-cage-corita-kent/ #DesignThyself

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“Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.”Bruce Lee

#DesignThyselfApplying Design Principles

to Personal Growth

Lee-Sean Huang@leesean

http://www.skillshare.com/DesignThyself-Applying-Design-Principles-to-Personal-Growth/42321712/1585544573/

#2What is Design?

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“You're born naked # the rest is drag.”

RuPaul

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“You're born naked ! the rest is design.”

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Design changes the defaults.

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a plan for arranging elements to best accomplish a particular purpose

Charles ! Ray EamesDesign

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What are the boundaries of design?What are the boundaries of problems?

Charles ! Ray Eames

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0. Starts with empathy1. Serves human needs2. Solves problems3. Tells stories4. Makes meaning5. Has a point of view6. Iterates

Design

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“One of design's most fundamental tasks is to help people deal with change.”

http://www.economist.com/node/17509367#

Paola Antonelli

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design changeartifactscommunicationsconversationsinteractions

attitudeshabitsbehaviorsculture

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change = growth?something new?

something different?something better?what is “better”?

How does a new habit or skill, or other change help you grow?

What is “change”?

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“Change is not merely necessary to life- it is life.”Alvin Toffler

“Change is easy. It happens by itself.Progress is difficult and deliberate.”Jeffrey O’Brien

What is “change”?

#DesignThyself http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/99420-change-is-not-merely-necessary-to-life---it-ishttps://twitter.com/alinawheeler/status/137159238698008576

“It is not for me to change you. The question is, how can I be of service to you without diminishing your degrees of freedom?”

#DesignThyself http://www.buckyfullernow.com/1/post/2012/5/it-is-not-for-me-to-change-you-the-question-is-how-can-i-be-of-service-to-you-without-diminishing-your-degrees-of-freedom-bucky-fuller.html