When I started out as a graphic designer in school one of the biggest things that was preached to me was the importance of a sketchbook. And daily, for four years, I would sit and draw on scraps of paper. I would draw during class. I would draw because I was bored. And then something interesting happened when I went into the real world: my sketchbook started to get thin.

It's tough having to work with people who don't fully understand the creative process. Here's five tips I've learned over the years that help when you're working with non-creatives.

How would you react if your mistake was approximately 53 feet in width and about 14 feet tall? And it was so obvious, you could only hope that anyone who wasn’t a designer wouldn’t notice it?