- you may not have the budget for that (small company, student, open source project, side project...) - you may not be able to find the talent where you are (g

- you may not have the budget for that (small company, student, open source project, side project...) - you may not be able to find the talent where you are (good designers are not uniformly distributed, and remote may not be possible for you. Source: lived in Africa) - you may want/need to know the basics to evaluate the work of a designer, hire one or just communicate efficiently with one - you may just be curious, and want to learn that for you. Or transition to be, you know, a designer :)