It's one of the great dilemmas for a designer in any field: you take on a project with a list of client directives that will surely result in a design disaster. Your client thinks he knows best, but ...

Designers often speak of ultra luxury clients as if this is the holy grail to be considered successful and hit the revenue jackpot. But it simply is not the case. Focusing your energy solely on this ...

In the email, which I recommend is personalized with their name, you let them know that you’ve pivoted your business to virtual design. Then you mention that you know how challenging it is to be ...

FC: In your book, Make it Bigger, you devote a substantial amount of text–not to mention diagrams of org charts–to the Byzantine process you had to go through back in the 1970s at CBS Records trying ...

The best products are often sparked as ambitious ideas that are pushed up against guardrails while barreling along the product development highway. The Fast Company Executive Board is a private, ...

You must, must listen to your clients. But do not for a minute take them at their word. To rewind: Ours is a visual industry. Designers can cut through a lot of indecision with a photograph, a ...

Decision fatigue is the overwhelming sensation people experience when they are faced with making too many decisions. When this feeling arises, the quality of decisions can deteriorate. As an architect ...

At a conference several weeks back, I was talking with a seasoned wealth manager about his business. He had been running an independent practice for roughly 20 years and he had a great, profitable, ...