Mark Lopresto

…that moment, and any other time that I’ve felt stuck, is to remind myself that it’s about the work. Because if you’re worrying about yourself — if you’re thinking: ‘Am I succeeding? Am I in the right position? Am I being appreciated?’ — then you’re going to end up feeling frustrated and stuck. But if you can keep it about the work, you’ll always have a path. There’s always something to be done.”

Expensive degrees are being replaced on those schools by a track record of shipped work achieved through iterative, hands-on learning. No transition to the real world is needed when your work has already been there. The opportunities for design students that understand what those changes bring have grown exponentially. The focus is shifting now onto acquire the necessary skills which will allow students to make use of those opportunities.