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Is designing life simply evidence based?

  • Writer: Lisa
    Lisa
  • Oct 20
  • 2 min read

Updated: Nov 1

H​i​, welcome to ​Simplify Simplify​-ing. If you're stressed, craving more time, energy and space, but simplifying feels too complicated, you're not alone.​ Simplifying can feel simpler, if you take small, messy steps, colour code the mental load on one page & outsmart decision fatigue.


But is simplifying life using the design process, in self care fitness food style home admin work and love evidence based? Yes! Institutes such as the Stanford Life Design Lab, have been applying "design thinking to tackling the "wicked" problems of life" for decades.


I've been designing and dreaming about Simplify Simplify-ing, since studying Industrial Design at UTS in Australia, and TU Delft in the Netherlands. My lecturers were renowned practicing designers, across design theory, philosophy, ethics, process, practice, sustainability, materials, product life cycle, communication, human and user centred design.


The concepts I resonated most with were around simplicity, minimalism, replacing product with service, way finding, behaviour change, personal choice, community and the impact of design on health. Through my thesis project, I explored these ideas, developing an early version of a fitness wearable, based upon mindfulness psychology, and applying design thinking to wellness and lifestyle.


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SIMPLIFY DESIGN PROCESS

I love the Design Process and applying it in simplifying life. By defining, problems, constraints and opportunities on one page, new connections and simple solutions appear. In design, the constraints guide beautiful solutions, as much as the opportunities, because they encourage creativity. So I categorise and colour coding mental load in self care fitness food style home admin work and love with the Simplify in One Page PDF (subscribe in the footer).


Subscribe on Spotify to Simplify Simplify​-ing the Podcast so you don’t miss an episode, and let’s make simply sexy!


I'd love you to check out the Simplifying Cards, Blog articles, and to connect on Instagram, Facebook or Pinterest.

Simplify Simplify-ing content & products, apply the design process to different aspects of life. Visualising problems, constraints & opportunities on a page, to create simple solutions, in doable steps.

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Please obtain professional advice tailored to you in specific areas, such as a Dietician, Personal Trainer or other, as needed.

All Simplify Simplify-ing content, across platforms, is written from personal experience, and is general information, not professional advice. Lisa is qualified in the following.

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  • Designer B Hons 2006 Industrial Design, Sustainability & Communication. 

  • Design Consulting 2010-24 to small business, corporate and not for profits.

  • Yoga Teacher 200hr Australian Yoga Academy

  • Nutrition Coach Australian Institute of Fitness    

  • Health Coach Institute for Integrative Nutrition

  • Chronic illness, Ehlers Danlos Sydrome hEDS, Mast Cell Activation MCAS, POTS

Outsmart overthinking with cards

Bye analysis paralysis!  Simplifying Cards (preorder) let you choose an area of your life to take steps in, whenever you have a moment, or an afternoon.

 

Touchable & colour-coded, perfect for your white board. When you complete a card, pop it back in the acrylic holder, to simplify more in future.

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Colour code mental load, on one page

Use the design process to see the mental load on one page, colour coded  in selfcare fitness food style home admin work & love.

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Subscribe by email below for your Simplify in One Page PDF, so you see which tasks feel sticky, ones to batch, and easy wins to start simplifying.

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