Why soft skills help you thrive as a designer

Traditional design education may help you generate ideas, refine your craft and populate your portfolio – but if all of that happens in a vacuum, it simply can’t prepare you for the realities of the design industry.
A crucial part of that are the ‘soft’ skills that many courses don’t have the capacity – or the inclination – to teach in a formalised way. The beating heart of any successful design project, these are essential for meaningful interactio