![]() So, when graduated from college, she worked in marketing and, as the design director at IDEO, led teams of designers to create products and services for clients like American Express, Condé Nast and PepsiCo. “She was really a big influence, but I had no idea that there were careers that drew from that.” “We would come home with a bunch of supplies, and they would let me play with whatever I was interested in at that moment,” she says. Every summer, Fetell Lee would spend a month with her grandparents where they would go to the craft store. Her parents were doctors, and that’s where the science side of her comes in - but she did grow up in a creative family: her grandmother was a milliner and she taught Fetell Lee a lot of crafts like quilting, knitting and sewing. ![]() ![]() I wanted to make things and would always come up with crazy ideas for inventions,” says Fetell Lee. “When I was a kid, I said I wanted to be an inventor. To be fair, she didn’t even know that design was something one could do. It wasn’t as if Ingrid Fetell Lee was drawn to design as a child. Lend an ear and bring a little more joy into your life. Seventeen million people have tuned in to hear her TED Talk, “Where Joy Hides and How to Find It,” and listening to her is an aha moment. As the author of Joyful: The Surprising Power of Ordinary Things to Create Extraordinary Happiness and the founder of the popular website The Aesthetics of Joy, Ingrid Fetell Lee is trying hard to help people find more joy in life and work through design. ![]()
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