Resources
Here are some of the curriculum tools and organizations we partner with on campus.
LIFE DESIGN
Book: Designing Your Life
Can't take the class? Check out the book, a #1 New York Times Bestseller.
"At last, a book that shows you how to build—design—a life you can thrive in, at any age or stage Designers create worlds and solve problems using design thinking. Look around your office or home—at the tablet or smartphone you may be holding or the chair you are sitting in. Everything in our lives was designed by someone. And every design starts with a problem that a designer or team of designers seeks to solve.
Training: Life Design Studio
Are you a university educator looking to bring Designing Your Life to your campus? We offer a Life Design Studio for University Educators, a highly immersive educational experience for leading innovative educators in institutions of higher learning looking to be intentional about how students reflect on their experiences and build their future.
Videos: Designing Your Career
Based on content from our Life Design courses, these animated videos are a resource for vocational wayfinding and career education.
Video: Designing Black Experiences
This video steps though the design thinking process as students in Designing Black Experiences tackle a real world design challenge.
Videos: Odyssey Planning
Based on the Odyssey Plan project, these videos outline how to create and explore your own alternate futures.
Online Module: Designing Your Career
Based on content from our Life Design courses, these animated videos are a resource for vocational wayfinding and career education.
Online Module: Odyssey Planning
'Odyssey Plans' to help you explore curiosities and design the life (or lives) you want.
Class: Designing Your Life
Take the online course with Life Design Lab Co-Founders, Bill Burnett and Dave Evans, via a CreativeLive class.
Common Ground: Designing Your Family Life
A talk by Stanford Life Design Lab’s co-founder Dave Evans and Managing Director Kathy Davies on Designing Your Family Life for the Common Ground Speaker Series.
Webinar: Prototyping Your Life
A 1-hour webinar from Lab Fellow, Gabrielle Santa-Donato, filmed for the Harvard Alumni Association, on our tools around how you can prototype in your life.
Berkeley NOW Keynote: Designing Your Life
A 30 minute keynote delivered by Kathy Davies to the UC Berkeley NOW Conference, sharing 3 dysfunctional beliefs and 4 big ideas from Designing Your Life.
DESIGN TOOLS
Video: Virtual Crash Course in Design Thinking
This d.school resource is an amazing 90-minute video-led cruise through the design thinking methodology. You can access the video, handouts, and facilitation tips, which will take you step by step through the process of hosting or participating in a 90 minute design challenge.
collaborators
BEAM | Stanford Career Education
BEAM is the student career education hub at Stanford. Career Educators connect students with the people and knowledge needed to help them explore career paths, identify and apply for opportunities, and cultivate personalized networks that shape their professional journey. Check out their Career MythBusting Campaign that help students to reframe dysfunctional career myths.
d.school | Stanford Institute of Design
The d.school is a hub for innovators at Stanford. Students and faculty in engineering, medicine, business, law, the humanities, sciences, and education find their way here to take on the world’s messy problems together.
Stanford Institute for Diversity in the Arts
We invite guest lecturers on improvisation and embodiment design.
The O'Donohue Family Stanford Educational Farm
The educational farm is Stanford's home for hands-on learning in sustainable agriculture.