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Webinar - How to Design Your Career Using Design Thinking - Kathy Davies of Stanford Life Design Lab

Overview

Learn more about the online graduate course Designing the Professional: https://online.stanford.edu/courses/engr311b-designing-professional

Do you know what you want out of your career? Are you wondering how to choose a career? Would you be interested in learning how you could intentionally design it? In this fireside chat, Kathy Davies talks about applying design thinking to the “wicked problem” of designing your life and vocation. Throughout the conversation, Kathy answers audience questions.

You Will Learn:

-A basic overview of design thinking.

-Why design thinking is a good approach to hard problems like designing your career.

-Some tips for beginning to approach your life and career more intentionally.

Learn more about the Stanford Life Design Lab: http://lifedesignlab.stanford.edu/

00:13 Introduction

01:29 Overview of Design Thinking, what it would look like to design your life and career

06:36 Why is it important to approach thinking about your life in a structured way

08:21 Five steps: Empathize, Define, Ideate, Prototype, Test

08:41 Step 1: Empathize, understanding yourself, what you're looking for, and your world view and the narratives you use to define yourself.

12:49 Is it too late for me to "design my career"? What age can I begin this process?

#designthinking #career

Chapters 6

  1. 00:13Introduction
  2. 01:29Overview of Design Thinking, what it would look like to design your life and career
  3. 06:36Why is it important to approach thinking about your life in a structured way
  4. 08:21Five steps: Empathize, Define, Ideate, Prototype, Test
  5. 08:41Step 1: Empathize, understanding yourself, what you're looking for, and your world view and the narratives you use to define yourself.
  6. 12:49Is it too late for me to "design my career"? What age can I begin this process?

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  • The actual Stanford lectures (CS229, CS224N, CS231N…): the deepest free material on AI anywhere.
  • Taught by Stanford University, one of the strongest names in its field.
  • Completely free.
  • Self-paced: start any time.
  • A clear syllabus (6 parts) you can see before you start.
  • Hands-on: you build or practise, not just watch.

Disadvantages

  • No exercises or certificate: code along to make it stick.
  • Graduate level: needs linear algebra, probability and programming first.
  • No certificate.
  • Short (45 minutes): an overview, not deep coverage.
  • No graded assignments or feedback.

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Stanford University is in Tier 1: world-leading universities and India's top institutes of our institution ranking (97/100).

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