Vanguard presents
Designing better ways to work & live.
FRICTIONLESS.
50 Small Shifts for a Life That Runs Itself.
Life doesn't have to be this complicated.
Digital PDF · $19.99 · An Idea by Vanguard
A little less resistance.
A better way through the everyday.
01 / The problem
Your life is already
running on systems.
Some make things easier.
Some get in the way.
The routines you repeat. The decisions you make again. The things you can never quite find. Small obstacles, repeated every day, add up.
That's friction. And sometimes, the way forward begins with changing what surrounds the effort.
01 — Routines
The things you repeat.
The patterns that quietly shape your day.
02 — Decisions
The things you reconsider.
The choices that ask for your attention, again.
03 — Environments
The things around you.
The spaces and tools that make an action easier—or harder.
02 / The philosophy
EVERYTHING
IS A SYSTEM.
Designing better ways
to work and live.
A better life doesn't always come from doing more. Sometimes, it comes from changing the systems that shape your everyday.
03 / Introducing the book
FRICTIONLESS
50 Small Shifts for a Life That Runs Itself.
Vanguard's first digital publication brings our thinking about better systems into everyday life.
Fifty small shifts exploring habits, decisions, routines and personal systems—with a simple idea at their centre: remove unnecessary resistance.
- The idea
- 50 small shifts
- The format
- Digital PDF
- The price
- $19.99
04 / The digital edition
Less friction.
More life.
$19.99 Frictionless
Digital PDF
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05 / The company behind the idea
Built by
Vanguard.
Everything is a system.
We create thoughtful digital solutions that help businesses work better.
FRICTIONLESS brings that same interest in design, efficiency and simpler systems to everyday life. A new expression of the same philosophy.