Mike Monteiro

Transparency is a key component to working together.

A designer will be more willing to take a risk and try something new if they know they’re tethered to a check-in and won’t be allowed to go off course irrevocably.

A lesson on how to treat clients and work with a client instead of for a client.

Challenging the designer’s work in the most productive way possible is the essence of being a client.

Every design presentation should start with some form of: “Here’s what we need your feedback on today.”

A good designer finds an elegant way to put everything you need on a page. A great designer convinces you that half that shit is unnecessary.

The clearer our path to the goal, the more likely we are to reach it.

Do you know where you are? Do you know what you can do there? Do you understand how things relate to each other?

If you want people to notice something, make the things around it smaller.

Clients and designers have different vocabularies.