For these designers, the business advice they didn’t know they needed came from the other side of the desk. Listen up: The clients are talking.  

Sometimes designers are so focused on educating clients—about color, form, scale—it can be easy to forget that learning is a two-way street. A homeowner, especially one who works in a field like law, finance, marketing or entrepreneurship, can be a font of business advice. To prove that point, we’ve tapped six designers who learned on the fly about how to strengthen their firms from the people on the other side of the process.

Time Is Money