Good Design: Timeless Wisdom for Holistic Wellness & Modern Innovation

By Praneet Chhiba

How can better design create better lives?

Whether you're seeking personal growth, leading change, designing products, educating others, building a business, shaping communities, or simply striving to make better decisions, Good Design offers a timeless framework for thinking more clearly, creating with intention, and building a healthier, more sustainable future-for yourself, your organisation, and the world around you.

This book is for:

- Lifelong learners seeking personal growth and intentional living
- Leaders, managers and organisational changemakers
- Educators, researchers and students
- Entrepreneurs, founders and business leaders
- Designers, architects and innovators
- Product, strategy and transformation professionals
- Anyone interested in systems thinking, sustainability, biomimicry, ancient wisdom, Indigenous knowledge and holistic wellbeing

Written by philosopher, designer and entrepreneur Praneet Chhiba, Good Design brings together timeless wisdom, systems thinking and modern innovation to help you make better decisions, solve complex problems, and create products, organisations and communities that flourish for generations.

Inside, you'll discover:

Timeless Wisdom for Modern Challenges

Discover practical lessons from Egypt's Maat and Isfet, Africa's Ubuntu, India's Vastu Shastra, and China's Feng Shui-revealing principles that continue to shape resilient people, organisations and societies.

Ancient Sustainability, Modern Solutions

Learn how past civilizations created self-sustaining cities, climate-responsive architecture and regenerative systems that continue to inspire today's circular economy, sustainable innovation and biomimicry.

Nature's Blueprint for Better Design

Explore sacred geometry, biophilic design and nature's patterns to create environments, products and systems that foster wellbeing, clarity, resilience and human flourishing.

The Good Design Framework

A practical framework for applying timeless principles to today's challenges-helping individuals, leaders and organisations create solutions that are resilient, purposeful and sustainable.

Practical Tools You Can Use

Every chapter includes reflection questions, practical exercises and real-world case studies to help you apply the principles immediately in your work, leadership, business and everyday life.

About the Author

Praneet Chhiba is a philosopher, author, multidisciplinary designer and entrepreneur with more than two decades of experience spanning technology, business strategy, digital transformation and human-centred design.

Driven by a simple but profound question-How can better design create better lives?-he developed the Good Design Framework, combining timeless wisdom with systems thinking to help individuals and organisations think more deeply, design more intentionally and create lasting positive impact.

"The world we inherit is shaped by those before us.
The world we leave is shaped by us.
Good design is not just a practice-it is a promise.
A promise to live with purpose, build with wisdom,
and shape a world future generations will cherish and sustain."

- Praneet Chhiba

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1037059131
• ISBN13: 9781037059131
• Release Date: March 2025
• Publisher: Collective Ambition Network
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.61 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"