5 Critical lessons your design professors never taught you

Lesson 1: Clients pay the bills, but the customer’s not always right.

Lesson 2: You don’t have to present your design process when presenting your designs.

Lesson 3: You don’t have to have decades of experience to land some great design gigs.

Lesson 4: Your elevator pitch is as important (or more important) than your design portfolio.

Lesson 5: Great designers steal.