If design is so important, how do you know when a company invests in design?

At this point, I shouldn’t need to spend too much time explaining why design is so important, so I’ll be fast. It’s the only thing that your consumers, users, clients, and B-to-B partners can see. And what’s that beautiful idiom that people say all the time? “A picture is worth a thousand words,” or the one that goes like “everyone is a designer,” or just the…