As with anything else, design skills are easier to learn when a person is still young. The school-going generation of today is more computer literate than their moms and dads were at that age.  It may be true that many parents now work with computers eight hours a day, but the kids learned to speak the language of computers with their first steps.


They could play computer games before the first time they were even introduced to scrabble.  It is a language like any… the earlier you begin to speak it, the easier it will be.  Rather than letting them play games all day long, we should introduce them to Photoshop or any other image editing or drawing program. They can fool their way around, and maybe create something spectacular!


The formal training can come later. Just imagine what design would be ten years from now if this generation kids start their first formal design job with ten years design experience already on their sleeves…