*Part I of the seven part series: What Spending a Decade Inside Our Design Firm Taught Our CFO My career was in business, not design. I saw little practical value in design beyond décor at Christmastime. But over the past decade, I had a front-row seat to the work of an unusually gifted designer: the founder of the design firm Thirteen and Crowne. That experience completely changed my assumptions about designers and design. I thought that hiring a designer meant I w