Top 5 Design skills you should work on:
1. Storytelling
2. Storytelling
3. Storytelling
4. Storytelling
5. Storytelling
I’m not even kidding.
I've seen designers with killer ideas backed unable to convince anyone.
Good ideas need extraordinary stories.
Normalize people switching jobs for better salaries instead of guilting them.
Not everybody takes up a job thinking, "This seems like a great place to do some charity."
Not everyone has the privilege of working purely for passion or for fun.
Some of us have bills to pay.