Ayse Birsel

"Design the Life You Love is a recipe for happiness and fulfillment. Ayse has architected an experience that will turn you upside down, shake out your pockets, then invite you to reassemble yourself into a new and more satisfying order. It is the opportunity of a lifetime, to examine what is truly important to you and to craft a life that puts you on the path to achieving it. And Ayse does this all with great charm, creativity and skill. Bravo!"

"Ayse Birsel's warm, affirming tone convinces readers that a deeply fulfilling life is possible. . . Design the Life You Love would be the perfect gift for anyone in a rut, at a crossroads or about to embark on a new career path."

"Ayse Birsel has a unique gift for making the complex simple and the simple beautiful. This book will help you to a better life and unleash your hidden creative talent."

"If you want to stoke someone's imagination, give them a picture book. If you want to feed their intellect, give them a book of literature. But if you want to fuel their future, give them this book. Design the Life You Love is an invitation to prioritize what's important in your life-to literally put it down on paper through four simple but ingenious steps-and emerge with a kind of personal mission statement that will give you clarity, power, and purpose."

"Ayse Birsel's talent as a designer and her unique worldview collide perfectly in Design The Life You Love. For anyone who is looking for an imaginative yet logical way to think through life's challenges, this is for you. Learn how to shift your perspectives with design-thinking, and be inspired by her illustrations along the way."

"Ayse led a Design the Life You Love lecture at our annual sales meeting. I had hoped that it would provide an introduction to design thinking to our associates...It accomplished that, but it also did so much more. We laughed, we cried (no real tears but many profound and emotional insights), we danced, we bonded, we shared, we learned-it was a powerful and inspiring journey and Ayse is a delightful guide. I can't wait to do it again!"

"Ayse Birsel is a designer who knows how to find elegant solutions for complex issues not only with products, but also with everybody's search for serenity, inspiration, and fulfillment in life."

"Ayse Birsel has designed furniture, office systems, cookware and even a toilet seat. Taking what she's learned from product design, she has developed a fun, playful approach to designing a life you love. Who else but a designer could give you the tools you need to examine your life and make it the best it can be?"

"Remember when people used to tell each other impatiently to 'Get a life!'? Well, with this engaging book, Ayse Birsel provides a well-wrought strategy for doing precisely that. In the process, readers gain some precious insights into what design is and what designers do."

"Ayse Birsel's book costs very little money, takes almost no time to go through and may have a gigantic impact on your life. This is good design: a tiny investment featuring enormous possibilities."