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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

When Bennett Hu registered for this year’s Metaproject course, he was excited about the opportunity to be more abstract with his designs. He drew influence from his childhood to address the prompt ...

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, ...

Identifying your hot and buying ideal client is the fast path to design success. You can stop spinning your wheels trying to be all things to everyone and focus on those clients you enjoy the most.