Life Experience Design (LED) - Apply design thinking to your daily life
By Hannah Chen & Lia Fetterhoff
Life Experience Design (LED) - Apply design thinking to your daily lifeAug 02, 2020
LED #10: Iteration, refine, and redesign
In this episode, we focus on what happens after you deliver. We’ll cover what it means to move from a version 1 to a version 2 in software, and how you can do this in your own life. Through reflecting, evaluating, refining, and redesigning, you’ll be able to navigate the next step, and the next one after that as you live out your ideal life.
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LED #9: Execution and making it happen
In this episode, we focus on execution and implementation. Once you’ve launched the first step of your design solution, what’s next? How do you make sure you keep the momentum going? How do you measure and gauge if you’re successful? We explore “life hacks” in getting things done, and how a successful execution feels like.
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LED #8: The Handoff of project plans
In this episode, we move to the Deliver phase and discuss design briefs and project plans. In our day jobs, the handoff is when different teams align on how to move forward, clarify deadlines and expectations, and so on. In Life Experience Design, you get to wear all the hats! We’ll cover how to pick your design solution (the project you want to move forward with) and how to frame it for success.
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LED #7: Design different solutions in your focus area
In this episode, we wrap up the Design phase by coming up with a few different solutions or projects to tackle in your chosen focus area. We discuss why you want to have a few solutions, things to consider when exploring alternatives, and how to go both broad and deep.
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LED #6: Picking a focus area
In this episode, we start the Design phase and discuss why focus areas are helpful when approaching your life experience design project. We go over examples of past work projects where focus mattered, chat about our personal focus areas and how they’ve evolved over time, and present an exercise of how to start designing for your own focus areas. We also talk about user journeys and how they help illustrate priorities for an experience.
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LED #5: Create your own mission and vision statement
In this episode, we go deeper in the Define phase, covering vision and mission statements. We go over values and vision statements of some well-known companies, and tie this back why it’s also important to define these in your own life. As with values, having a vision and mission statement will help you gain clarity on how to design for your life. We use values that we came up with in Episode 4 to start framing our own vision and mission statements, and encourage you to do the same.
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LED #4: What you stand for and why this matters
In this episode, we move into the Define phase, which includes defining your values and principles. This helps you stay true to the design you want for your life, especially in those moments where you’re not sure how to move forward. Values help you guide your choices. We cover the heroes exercise and walk you through how you can begin to articulate your values.
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LED #3: Reflect and find the gap
In this episode, we talk about identifying the gap between the current and ideal states of our “product”, in this case our lives. When you’re first trying to figure out what to change in your life, you need to consider scope, reflect on what’s working and what isn’t, and how to prioritize what area changes first. We talk about reflecting using the rose, thorn, and bud framework. We also cover Discover phase exercises including empathy mapping, four quadrants, and timeline mapping.
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LED #2: Dream about your ideal life
In this episode, we talk about how to find inspiration for making a change. We go over examples on how we’ve used design to improve on and innovate with new digital products and found inspiration to do the same in our lives by staying curious. As part of the Discover phase, we also talk about exercises you can try to discover your ideal life including competitive analysis, persona development, and ideal day roadmaps.
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LED #1: Discover where you are right now
In this first episode, we talk about how we each came to the realization of designing our own lives! Learn about how we apply design processes and tools as product designers into life planning to achieve our goals. We also walk through how you can take an audit of your life with a mind-mapping exercise and our own personal examples and insights.
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