Dave Evans

Dave Evans, early Apple engineer, Stanford lecturer and cofounder of the Life Design Lab, outlines using design thinking to craft a meaningful life. He explores wayfinding versus navigation, prototyping life choices, reframing mistakes as moves, and diversifying sources of meaning like wonder, flow, community and impact. Practical mindsets and signs it’s time to redesign your life are also discussed.

Dave Evans, Stanford professor and Life Design Lab co-founder, and Bill Burnett, Stanford design professor and course co-creator, share practical life-design tools. They explore designing multiple possible lives, prototyping low-risk experiments, the Odyssey Plan and wild-card ideas, and exercises to clarify priorities. Short, actionable conversation about expanding possibilities and taking small steps toward a meaningful future.

Bill Burnett, educator and product designer who co-founded Stanford's Life Design Lab, and Dave Evans, life design co-founder and career strategist, join to explore design thinking for life. They discuss loneliness, curiosity as a portal to wonder, transactional versus flow ways of living, tiny prototypes to overcome fear, and designing small moments to create aliveness and meaning.

Bill Burnett, Stanford adjunct and life design teacher, and Dave Evans, co-founder of the Stanford Life Design Lab and design-thinking instructor, offer practical ways to craft a more meaningful life. They discuss applying design thinking to everyday choices. They explore radical acceptance, savoring small moments, shifting from transactional to flow experiences, and building coherence and community to foster purpose.

Bill Burnett, Stanford Life Design Lab director and design-thinking professor, and Dave Evans, co-founder of the Lab and product design lecturer, share practical approaches to crafting a meaningful life. They discuss purpose as direction, the compass and coherence tools, prototyping futures with odyssey plans, and the four ingredients of meaning: coherence, wonder, flow, and community.

Join Stanford design professors Bill Burnett and Dave Evans as they explore how design thinking can lead to a more meaningful life. They share insights from their bestselling books, emphasizing the importance of curiosity, flexibility, and prototyping life choices. Discover the concept of creating multiple life plans to break free from binary thinking and FOMO. The duo discusses the generational shift towards seeking impactful work and equips listeners with practical strategies to navigate choices and discover personal coherence.

Dave Evans, a behavioral scientist and design-thinking teacher at Stanford, shows how to design a life that feels alive and flexible. He explores why success can feel empty, how radical reinvention often misses the point, and why prototyping small life changes, embracing limits, and crafting moments matter more than chasing big impact.

Dave Evans, design thinker who teaches reframing and practical prototyping for meaningful living, and Bill Burnett, design educator who applies human-centered design to life planning, discuss why people feel stuck. They tackle radical acceptance, reframing the passion myth, designing small moments of meaning, prototyping life choices, and standing in heartbreak with an open heart.

Sarah Schnitker, psychologist who studies patience, returns to answer practical questions about waiting, recovery, and long-term growth. Dave Evans, design thinker and author, discusses radical acceptance as the starting point for meaningful living, telling stories about confronting denial, choosing honesty, and aligning life and work. Short, story-driven conversations about presence, coherence, and when patience pairs with action.

Dave Evans, Stanford educator and former Apple engineer who co-wrote Designing Your Life, returns with a fresh take on purpose. He contrasts “meaning of” vs “meaning in,” and explores flow, wonder, coherence, and deep community as sources of present-moment meaning. He also covers radical acceptance, the aliveness meter, and practical ways to cultivate everyday engagement.