Each year, we compile insights and tips from interior design industry experts to help make the year ahead more seamless and profitable. We gather these contributions into our annual playbook, and in this blog, we’re sharing one individual expert insight pulled directly from that resource.

These are tips from a business lawyer and former litigation lawyer who specialises in supporting interior designers and creative business owners. Tracey touches on how the difference between a struggling design business and a thriving one often comes down to one thing: properly tailored contracts that actually work for how you operate.

Each year, we compile insights and tips from interior design industry experts to help make the year ahead more seamless and profitable. We gather these contributions into our annual playbook, and in this blog, we’re sharing one individual expert insight pulled directly from that resource.

These are tips from a CPA and accounting professionals at CVW Accounting, providing interior designers with premium quality services and personalized care to help you make sound financial decisions.

Each year, we compile insights and tips from interior design industry experts to help make the year ahead more seamless and profitable. We gather these contributions into our annual playbook, and in this blog, we’re sharing one individual expert insight pulled directly from that resource.

These are tips from a brand ambassador at Design Manager.

Each year, we compile insights and tips from interior design industry experts to help make the year ahead more seamless and profitable. We gather these contributions into our annual playbook, and in this blog, we’re sharing one individual expert insight pulled directly from that resource.

These are tips from the owner and designer behind CANB Design, a residential design and rendering studio. Specializing in creating realistic 3D renderings that help designers and homeowners visualize their projects with clarity and confidence.

Each year, we compile insights and tips from interior design industry experts to help make the year ahead more seamless and profitable. We gather these contributions into our annual playbook, and in this blog, we’re sharing one individual expert insight pulled directly from that resource.

These are tips from Dakota Design Company’s in-house certified interior designer, tenured design professor, and professional writer.

In 2025 we wrote 70 blog posts! It didn't realize we wrote that many but I think it's because of our 2x/month articles for The Design Brief® (the newsletter Dr. Gloria writes where she shares lessons from design school, w/o the tuition FTW). 

So that means approximately 25 articles for The Design Brief® plus 45 regular blogs. That's wild. I'm happy with that. 

Here are the top ten articles you guys kept coming back to in 2025. A few of them surprised me. 

Each year, we compile insights and tips from interior design industry experts to help make the year ahead more seamless and profitable. We gather these contributions into our annual playbook, and in this blog, we’re sharing one individual expert insight pulled directly from that resource.

These are tips from an operations consultant specializing in client experience and process design for interior designers, with experience supporting 100+ firms across the U.S. and Canada.

This post is about a topic I have been thoroughly fascinated with for the last several years—ever since I became aware of this topic’s existence. A few years ago, I read an article in The New York Times that left me astounded. How did I not know about this phenomenon, so closely tied to a creative professional’s abilities?

The illuminating phenomenon I am talking about is the ability, or in some cases, the inability to willfully bring an image of something into your mind’s eye—to see something in your head. I had never given this any thought at all, but have come to understand that I have a very agile mind’s eye, and that this ability has served me well over my career as an interior designer. And, I understand that many people are not able to conjure images in their mind’s eye at all! How many times have we designers had clients wring their hands and become paralyzed with indecision, and say, “OOOOH, I just don’t know. I just can’t see it!!!”? (I have often clients that I CAN see it, and they need to trust me.)