How do you feel about collaborating? No, wait. How do you really feel about it? Teams collaborate more than ever to solve tougher and tougher problems. Team members are scattered across cities, and the conversations about the content feel scattered. Solving problems with a team can be incredibly satisfying, but the process of working together can feel really hard.

SVA's Steven Heller has helped launch dozens of high-profile design careers. To his protégés, he seems like the ultimate insider - but he didn't start out that way. S teven Heller is sitting in his office at Manhattan's School of Visual Arts, sipping iced green tea and editing a draft of his latest book.

I'm often asked to review designer portfolios from students anxious to lock down a dream job, and young designers looking to move up the ladder. I'd love to review each one in detail, but it takes too long. In both cases though, my feedback tend to be the same, and it's inspired by product marketing principles.

Animation creates energy within an interface and lets the user know what's happening before, during and after an action - IBM Motion is an inescapable element of design these days. The days that motion design sat squarely in the domain of animators and VFX specialists are long gone.

What's your passion? Written in large letters along the wall of our office in Palo Alto is the phrase, "Great stories move the world forward." On the facing wall, floor-to-ceiling photographs depict defining moments in our history - the Mars Curiosity rover crawling across the sands of the red planet; David Bowie as Ziggy Stardust; Jackie Robinson leaping to catch a fly ball.