The Design of Life is a game that focuses on starting a conversation about the interconnectedness of personal and professional changes over the course of a career.
The Design of Life stems out of frustration at a business course. The course only focused on academic and professional skills, taking the personal side out of the equation. This continued throughout: Personal and professional skills were kept separate.
These two skills are not mutually exclusive, but belong together. Your personal setbacks and wins in life influence your professional environment and vice versa. The game tries to show this with players trying to reach the top of the stairs, representing a (design) career. Players draw cards that makes them suffer setbacks or surprises, based on both personal and professional scenarios.
The Design of Life is a game that focuses on starting a conversation about the interconnectedness of personal and professional changes over the course of a career.
The Design of Life stems out of frustration at a business course. The course only focused on academic and professional skills, taking the personal side out of the equation. This continued throughout: Personal and professional skills were kept separate.
These two skills are not mutually exclusive, but belong together. Your personal setbacks and wins in life influence your professional environment and vice versa. The game tries to show this with players trying to reach the top of the stairs, representing a (design) career. Players draw cards that makes them suffer setbacks or surprises, based on both personal and professional scenarios.