The curse of many a designer is that they're too right-brain, unwilling to let the realities of business interfere with their creativity. Online education platform The Skool is attempting to counter this by teaching business skills to creatives. (Insert joke here about proper spelling.) As part of their mission, The Skool has a YouTube channel where they, well, school creatives on skills they should be practicing in order to further their careers.

A recent episode is "What Do I Need to Learn in Design School?" where award-winning designer Chris Do, the founder of UX and business design consultancy Blind, Inc., imparts several important principles to a group of Art Center students. While this is not industrial-design specific, Do's advice still applies, and it's sound: