He joined the faculty after 22 years of experience in the product design and development industry, 14 years of which he operated his own full-service product development consulting firm. His clients included Kodak, Fisher-Price, Federal Express, Motorola, AT&T, Xerox and Hewlett-Packard, to name a few. Skaggs is the current chair of industrial design program at Brigham Young University. He has published numerous papers on the subject of creativity and innovation. Skaggs is the recipient of the Abell Innovation Professorship at Brigham Young University.