# How educating your environment makes you a better designer - IDology #14

- Show: [IDology](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/idology)
- Published: 2024-01-23
- Length: 36m
- Episode: 14
- Page: https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/idology/2024-01-23-how-educating-your-environment-makes-you-a-better-designer-idology-14
- Listen: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mindsailors/episodes/How-educating-your-environment-makes-you-a-better-designer---IDology-14-e2e55f6

## Summary

Voytek Hołysz, Mikołaj Wiewióra, and Rafał Piłat of the industrial design studio Mindsailors discuss the critical importance of educating clients and internal teams to ensure mutual understanding in product development. They emphasize that assuming shared knowledge leads to misunderstandings, particularly regarding definitions like 'prototype,' and advocate for setting a baseline through workshops and clear communication. The founders highlight the need to manage expectations, define responsibilities, and recognize that clients are experts in their specific domains, requiring designers to act as facilitators and connectors to other specialists.

## Chapters

- [0:00](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/idology/2024-01-23-how-educating-your-environment-makes-you-a-better-designer-idology-14#t=0) Introduction: The Role of Education in Design
- [2:07](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/idology/2024-01-23-how-educating-your-environment-makes-you-a-better-designer-idology-14#t=127) Establishing a Baseline of Knowledge
- [5:14](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/idology/2024-01-23-how-educating-your-environment-makes-you-a-better-designer-idology-14#t=314) The Danger of Assumptions and Misunderstood Terms
- [9:45](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/idology/2024-01-23-how-educating-your-environment-makes-you-a-better-designer-idology-14#t=585) Educating First-Time Hardware Founders
- [14:13](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/idology/2024-01-23-how-educating-your-environment-makes-you-a-better-designer-idology-14#t=853) Managing Experienced Clients and Egos
- [20:32](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/idology/2024-01-23-how-educating-your-environment-makes-you-a-better-designer-idology-14#t=1232) Listening and Respecting Client Expertise
- [28:24](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/idology/2024-01-23-how-educating-your-environment-makes-you-a-better-designer-idology-14#t=1704) Workshops and Defining Responsibilities
- [29:59](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/idology/2024-01-23-how-educating-your-environment-makes-you-a-better-designer-idology-14#t=1799) The MoSCoW Method and Scope Management
- [33:13](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/idology/2024-01-23-how-educating-your-environment-makes-you-a-better-designer-idology-14#t=1993) Communication as the Key to Success

## Topics

- [Validation & product-market fit](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/validation-and-product-market-fit)
- [Leadership, teams & culture](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/leadership-and-culture)
- [Marketing & brand](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/marketing-and-brand)
- [Careers & education](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/engineering-careers-and-education)

## Most relevant to

established companies

## Mentioned

- Mindsailors (company)
- Clabra (company)

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- [#004: Why We Need to Be Tinkering More: Industrial Designer Jorge Paricio - Open-Ended Exploration, Sketching and Ideation, Material Knowledge, Confirmation Bias, and Getting Out To Talk With End Users.](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/designing-in-the-wild/2022-01-24-004-why-we-need-to-be-tinkering-more-industrial-designer-jorge-paricio-open-ende) (Designing in the Wild)
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