Slightly OT, but I think the designer training is especially relevant to 2). The main method of assessment in design school is the critique. You design somethin

Slightly OT, but I think the designer training is especially relevant to 2). The main method of assessment in design school is the critique. You design something, pin it on a board, then have to explain it to 20 classmates and your professor. If you slack it is immediately visible. You also start thinking about how you will communicate it while you work which informs the process. I'm sure this is more the case with CS folks now that the web is a central distribution channel vs. when project output was a compiled file shared on floppy.