Design the Life You Love, Ayse shares her tools to help you see things from fresh perspectives—which often is where new ideas start to emerge.
With Design the Life You Love, designer Ayse Birsel brings her creative process, Deconstruction:Reconstruction™, to show how to think about life with imagination - in a book, online workshop and online tea time conversations. She uses metaphors to help you think about your viewpoint on life, playfully, and connects you to inspiration through your heroes and role models to help you align yourself w
Every game has two opponents. The one in front of you—and the one inside your head.
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04/22/2026
What if time is not something to manage, but something to design?
We often try to fit more in, when what we really need is to make space.
Delegate. Delete. Defer.
To receive something new, you first have to put something down.
If this season feels too full, this newsletter is for you. Link in bio.
With love,
Ayse
04/19/2026
03/31/2026
I’m speaking at Create in LA, April 16, 11:15 AM.
Topic? The biggest 🤫 in design.
(You’ll also see me dance, sing, and do karate.)
Hoping to see you, my peeps, and also make new friends.
🙏 Thank you team for making this happen.
03/02/2026
Excited to be speaking with on March 18 at 2PM 💛
We’ll be talking about designing the life and work you love — and how design thinking can shape the future of organizations.
If you’re curious about turning ideas into action and designing with intention, join us.
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01/13/2026
Hello designers of life and work,
I wanted to start the new year with these six small cognitive tricks with big benefits that help us trick our mind for our own good in 2026.
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11/29/2025
A new kind of design the life you love is designing the future and me loving it!
If you’re in Dakar come to and visit his vision of the future, PAKKA CITY!
11/29/2025
Hanging out w/my dear friend at ’s opening at Gallery in Dakar, hugging one of Bibi’s sculptures of a floating building between us, and me rocking Selly’s skirt while she looks like she can live inside one of these buildings in 2151.
11/27/2025
My life is better because of all of you!
Thank you!
Happy Thanksgiving!
Riffing on a Turkish saying — damlaya damlaya göl olur — about how little pieces add up to a bigger whole.
11/26/2025
Back in Istanbul w/my friends at !