A View of Design Career: Employed or Start-up by Design

The purpose of this paper is to suggest that educators in the design field should be aware that it is important for students to develop their multiple capabilities and design career plans early in their school life. This paper is to address how designers can start a business on design through the interaction between employed by design and design start-up during these two different stages. There are seven essential capabilities recommended by several scholars for designers. They are as followed: expertise, business abilities, management abilities, social abilities, mental abilities, personalities, and characters. Thus, we suggest that the educators should help students develop these capabilities earlier in their school life in order to be successful and satisfied in their design careers.