Young adults have the potential to be valuable contributors to a library planning and design process – not just for teen spaces but for the library as a whole – but both librarians and designers have struggled to come up with successful ways to meaningfully involve them. For the past few years, architects at Noll & Tam have collaborated with youth specialist Anthony Bernier of SJSU SLIS, as well as librarians, to develop a successful model for incorporating young adults into a design process: the Youth Opportunity Design Approach (YODA). In this session we will describe our research, share our evidence-based inclusive design guidelines, and walk you through key steps for implementing the YODA process at your own library. By the end you will be convinced that, in the words of Yoda, “Overlook the wisdom of youth, we should not!”