In my experience it quantifies it, makes it easy to see, and identify where I can actually save time. How much of that design time is multitasking and moving inches per hour instead of targeted goals and moving full speed. Process design creates efficiency. Here's what I mean. There's a distinction between putting on your calendar “design time 11am-5pm” and “revamp example.com homepage”, “rebuild php script on current project” ect. and quantify your proposed time. One is specific, one is not so much. It's okay if your times are off, some types of work always will be, but you've set yourself a target, an egg timer to fit into. I forget the principle offhand, but there's a rule that says work expands to fill the hole or time you give it. It sounds silly, but seeing it in black and white on the calendar with a clock to accomplish a specified goal really does make a difference over a chunked, “design time” and then the nonsense of figuring out what that actually means and the distractions therein. Lifestyle design speaks to getting the most you can get done effectively, and realizing what takes 8 hours, doesn't actually have to take 8 hours. Questions like, what preparations can I do to biologically tune my work time, is there any pre-steps I can outsource, am I turning off all forms of communication to zero in on work…and so on.

Thanks again Jeremy!