Ayse Birsel

Ayse Birsel is the Co-founder and Creative Director of the award-winning design and innovation studio, Birsel+Seck, and the creator of Design the Life You Love, a coursework and book that teaches non-designers how to create a meaningful life using her design process, Deconstruction:Reconstruction™, and its tools.

Debbie Millman talks to Ayse Birsel about her expansive career as an industrial designer and how she uses art and design to reconstruct her personal and professional life around a core idea. "Your values are your foundation, so how do you capture what your values are?"

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I have always found design roles perplexing. Too much technical things going on. I prefer a clear set of instructions and a tried and tested formula to follow. Probably explains why I ended up with a self storage franchise! Hopefully can't go wrong with a winning brand haha!

Nathan Davidson
02.29.16
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Debbie Millman is a designer, author, educator, strategist, and host of the podcast Design Matters.

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