Design Your Life

Community dinner + Workshop

Life is full of uncertainty. We live at a time that career changes are increasingly common. More often than not, the career we aspired to five years ago may not even exist by the time when we are ready for it. In a rapidly changing world, how should we think about our long-term goals?

The truth is, you can’t control the wind, but you are in control of the sail. Design thinking is all about dealing with uncertainties and actively influencing what the future might look like. Shanfan Huang, a designer and software development consultant, will guide us through a fun hands-on life designing activity. We are not just envisioning the happy ending, or planning a step by step process. At this workshop, we will learn how to anticipate changes and still feel in control, and to live to our full potential.

Stories

Stories
Manage Expectations So You Can Do More - You Have Nothing To Lose
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Manage Expectations So You Can Do More - You Have Nothing To Lose
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One of the 10% of international students who pursue art and learn how to manage her expectations so that she can do more.

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Define Your Own Success. With Jilly Traganou. Part III
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Define Your Own Success. With Jilly Traganou. Part III
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Seek a new identity means to define a new (and your own) success.

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The Personal Boundaries In America. With Jilly Traganou. Part II
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The Personal Boundaries In America. With Jilly Traganou. Part II
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A Greek immigrant mother and her American-born daughter on whether and when to say no.

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Does Our English Accent Matter? With Jilly Traganou. Part I
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Does Our English Accent Matter? With Jilly Traganou. Part I
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How do our foreign/local accents impact the perception of our message? A Greek-born, Japan-visited, and New York-based architecture professor thinks it depends.

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Belonging Nowhere Makes Me Who I Am
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Belonging Nowhere Makes Me Who I Am
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Junwei, a young designer who embraces the fact that she and her work don’t easily belong to a location or a culture. Through her design, she celebrates belonging nowhere, because that’s what makes her who she is.

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The Falling of Elizabeth Holmes and What We Learn from It
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The Falling of Elizabeth Holmes and What We Learn from It
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When one has such a strong conviction of what she does, she will do whatever it takes almost religiously. 

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Events

Events
Dinner and Design (of Life) workshop
Jul 7
Dinner and Design (of Life) workshop
The Art of Waiting
Nov 15
The Art of Waiting

As the second panel of the Empower Communication Skills In The Product World, we invite three product experts who have not only survived this struggle but also are able to lead teams that share a mutual trust among members. How did they do that? Let’s ask!

Know Thyself
Oct 17
Know Thyself

In a product team, how do we build and earn trust through our communication? What are the strategies to stay true to our fact-based decisions rather than giving in to pressure or power from stakeholders like supervisors, executives, and clients? How do we find our own path to be professionally acknowledged, versus being “popular”, likable or compliant (product manager’s talking here)?