Definition of the word design

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A design is a plan or specification for the construction of an object or system or for the implementation of an activity or process or the result of that plan or specification in the form of a prototype, product, or process. The verb to design expresses the process of developing a design. In some cases, the direct construction of an object without an explicit prior plan (such as in craftwork, some engineering, coding, and graphic design) may also be considered to be a design activity. The design usually has to satisfy certain goals and constraints; may take into account aesthetic, functional, economic, or socio-political considerations; and is expected to interact with a certain environment. Typical examples of designs include architectural and engineering drawings, circuit diagrams, sewing patterns and less tangible artefacts such as business process models.^[1]

Designing[edit]

People who produce designs are called designers. The term ‘designer’ generally refers to someone who works professionally in one of the various design areas. Within the professions, the word ‘designer’ is generally qualified by the area of practice (so one may be, for example, a fashion designer, a product designer, a web designer, or an interior designer), but it can also designate others such as architects and engineers (see below: Types of designing). A designer’s sequence of activities to produce a design is called a design process, using design thinking and possibly design methods. The process of creating a design can be brief (a quick sketch) or lengthy and complicated, involving considerable research, negotiation, reflection, modeling, interactive adjustment, and re-design.

Designing is also a widespread activity outside of the professions, done by more people than just those formally recognised as designers. In his influential book The Sciences of the Artificial the interdisciplinary scientist Herbert A. Simon proposed that «Everyone designs who devises courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones».^[2] And according to the design researcher Nigel Cross «Everyone can – and does – design», and «Design ability is something that everyone has, to some extent, because it is embedded in our brains as a natural cognitive function».^[3]

History of design[edit]

Study of the history of design is complicated by varying interpretations of what constitutes ‘designing’. Many design historians, such as John Heskett, start with the Industrial Revolution and the development of mass production.^[4] Others subscribe to conceptions of design that include pre-industrial objects and artefacts, beginning their narratives of design in prehistorical times.^[5] Originally situated within art history, the historical development of the discipline of design history coalesced in the 1970s, as interested academics worked to recognize design as a separate and legitimate target for historical research.^[6] Early influential design historians include German-British art historian Nikolaus Pevsner and Swiss historian and architecture critic Sigfried Giedion.

Design education[edit]

Institutions for design education date back to the nineteenth century. The Norwegian National Academy of Craft and Art Industry was founded in 1818, followed by the United Kingdom’s Government School of Design (1837), Konstfack in Sweden (1844), and Rhode Island School of Design in the United States (1877). The German art and design school Bauhaus, founded in 1919, greatly influenced modern design education.^[7]

Design education covers the teaching of theory, knowledge and values in the design of products, services and environments, and focusses on the development of both particular and general skills for designing. It is primarily orientated to preparing students for professional design practice, and based around project work and studio or atelier teaching methods.

There are also broader forms of higher education in design studies and design thinking, and design also features as a part of general education, for example within Design and Technology. The development of design in general education in the 1970s led to a need to identify fundamental aspects of ‘designerly’ ways of knowing, thinking and acting, and hence to the establishment of design as a distinct discipline of study.^[8]

Design process[edit]

Substantial disagreement exists concerning how designers in many fields, whether amateur or professional, alone or in teams, produce designs.^[9] Design researchers Dorst and Dijkhuis acknowledge that «there are many ways of describing design processes», and compare and contrast two dominant but different views of the design process: as a rational problem solving process and as a process of reflection-in-action. They suggested that these two paradigms «represent two fundamentally different ways of looking at the world – positivism and constructionism».^[10] The paradigms may reflect differing views of how designing should be done and how it actually is done, and they both have a variety of names. The problem-solving view has been called «the rational model»,^[11] «technical rationality»^[12] and «the reason-centric perspective».^[13] The alternative view has been called «reflection-in-action»,^[12] «co-evolution»,^[14] and «the action-centric perspective».^[13]

Rational model[edit]

The rational model was independently developed by Herbert A. Simon,^[15][16] an American scientist, and two German engineering design theorists, Gerhard Pahl and Wolfgang Beitz.^[17] It posits that:

1. Designers attempt to optimize a design candidate for known constraints and objectives.
2. The design process is plan-driven.
3. The design process is understood in terms of a discrete sequence of stages.

The rational model is based on a rationalist philosophy^[11] and underlies the waterfall model,^[18] systems development life cycle,^[19] and much of the engineering design literature.^[20] According to the rationalist philosophy, design is informed by research and knowledge in a predictable and controlled manner.^[21]

Typical stages consistent with the rational model include the following:^[22]

• Pre-production design
  • Design brief – initial statement of intended outcome.
  • Analysis – analysis of design goals.
  • Research – investigating similar design solutions in the field or related topics.
  • Specification – specifying requirements of a design solution for a product (product design specification)^[23] or service.
  • Problem solving – conceptualizing and documenting design solutions.
  • Presentation – presenting design solutions.
• Design during production.
  • Development – continuation and improvement of a designed solution.
  • Product testing – in situ testing of a designed solution.
• Post-production design feedback for future designs.
  • Implementation – introducing the designed solution into the environment.
  • Evaluation and conclusion – summary of process and results, including constructive criticism and suggestions for future improvements.
• Redesign – any or all stages in the design process repeated (with corrections made) at any time before, during, or after production.

Each stage has many associated best practices.^[24]

Criticism of the rational model[edit]

The rational model has been widely criticized on two primary grounds:

1. Designers do not work this way – extensive empirical evidence has demonstrated that designers do not act as the rational model suggests.^[12][13][25]
2. Unrealistic assumptions – goals are often unknown when a design project begins, and the requirements and constraints continue to change.^[11][26]

Action-centric model[edit]

The action-centric perspective is a label given to a collection of interrelated concepts, which are antithetical to the rational model.^[13] It posits that:

1. Designers use creativity and emotion to generate design candidates.
2. The design process is improvised.
3. No universal sequence of stages is apparent – analysis, design and implementation are contemporary and inextricably linked.^[13]

The action-centric perspective is based on an empiricist philosophy and broadly consistent with the agile approach^[27] and methodical development.^[28] Substantial empirical evidence supports the veracity of this perspective in describing the actions of real designers.^[25] Like the rational model, the action-centric model sees design as informed by research and knowledge.^[29]

At least two views of design activity are consistent with the action-centric perspective. Both involve these three basic activities:

• In the reflection-in-action paradigm, designers alternate between «framing», «making moves», and «evaluating moves». «Framing» refers to conceptualizing the problem, i.e., defining goals and objectives. A «move» is a tentative design decision. The evaluation process may lead to further moves in the design.^[12]
• In the sensemaking–coevolution–implementation framework, designers alternate between its three titular activities. Sensemaking includes both framing and evaluating moves. Implementation is the process of constructing the design object. Coevolution is «the process where the design agent simultaneously refines its mental picture of the design object based on its mental picture of the context, and vice versa».^[13]

The concept of the design cycle is understood as a circular time structure,^[30] which may start with the thinking of an idea, then expressing it by the use of visual or verbal means of communication (design tools), the sharing and perceiving of the expressed idea, and finally starting a new cycle with the critical rethinking of the perceived idea. Anderson points out that this concept emphasizes the importance of the means of expression, which at the same time are means of perception of any design ideas.^[31]

Philosophies[edit]

Philosophy of design is the study of definitions of design, and the assumptions, foundations, and implications of design. There are also many informal ‘philosophies’ for guiding design such as personal values or preferred approaches.

Approaches to design[edit]

Some of these values and approaches include:

• Critical design uses designed artifacts as an embodied critique or commentary on existing values, morals, and practices in a culture.
• Ecological design is a design approach that prioritizes the consideration of the environmental impacts of a product or service, over its whole lifecycle.^[32][33]
• Participatory design (originally co-operative design, now often co-design) is the practice of collective creativity to design, attempting to actively involve all stakeholders (e.g. employees, partners, customers, citizens, end-users) in the design process to help ensure the result meets their needs and is usable.^[34]
• Scientific design refers to industrialised design based on scientific knowledge.^[35] Science can be used to study the effects and need for a potential or existing product in general and to design products that are based on scientific knowledge. For instance, a scientific design of face masks for COVID-19 mitigation may be based on investigations of filtration performance, mitigation performance,^[36][37] thermal comfort, biodegradability and flow resistance.^[38][39]
• Service design designing or organizing the experience around a product and the service associated with a product’s use.
• Sociotechnical system design, a philosophy and tools for participative designing of work arrangements and supporting processes – for organizational purpose, quality, safety, economics, and customer requirements in core work processes, the quality of peoples experience at work, and the needs of society.
• Transgenerational design, the practice of making products and environments compatible with those physical and sensory impairments associated with human aging and which limit major activities of daily living.
• User-centered design, which focuses on the needs, wants, and limitations of the end-user of the designed artifact. One aspect of user-centered design is ergonomics.

Relationship with the arts[edit]

The boundaries between art and design are blurry, largely due to a range of applications both for the term ‘art’ and the term ‘design’. Applied arts can include industrial design, graphic design, fashion design, and the decorative arts which traditionally includes craft objects. In graphic arts (2D image making that ranges from photography to illustration), the distinction is often made between fine art and commercial art, based on the context within which the work is produced and how it is traded.

Types of designing[edit]

See also[edit]

References[edit]

Further reading[edit]

• Raizman, David Seth (12 November 2003). The History of Modern Design. Pearson. ISBN 978-0131830400.

Hence, If you are a graphic designer, they should know that Design is a work process that has a user perspective and drives development based on your specific customers’ needs. So the main thing is this is the process of imagining and planning the creation of objects, systems, buildings, vehicles, etc.,

so basically, It is about creating solutions for people, as the mansion in below what is design and definitions of design and the main thing is why is important for you.

So A meaning of Design is basically major types of document for a Discerption overall project to be developed by an all types of person or all types of team, in other words,

Further, They basically totally outline the all types of multiple deliverables types of ideas and multiple types of the scope of the overall all types of project including any types of multiple types of products or multiple types of works under this including overall timing and over budget also.

However, Design is creating an element, either physical or virtual, but in a certain way. This design is carried out through the creativity, knowledge, and skills of a person or group.

The design is somewhat complex and ambiguous. Well, there are many types of design, and each element represents a concept or simply obeys a particular taste.

Definitions of design

There are several definitions of what it means. Some say that is the creative activity that aims to project objects that are useful and aesthetic. Hence, Others refer to design as the set of studies necessary to achieve the title of designer and exercise that activity. Therefore,  In any case, we are talking about official definitions because we can all define it in a certain way since it is a fairly abstract concept.

A simple definition of design

The simple definition of design, in my view, is the ability of people to show their creativity in deciding the shape of an object, whether physical or virtual.

Hence, The fact that computers and the Internet have shaped a change in society as a whole has caused people’s lives to change. And as a consequence, the ways of working, of designing, of thinking have also changed. Now many young people play video games, watch movies, watch all kinds of videos.

However, Many consider that they waste time because I do not see it this way. When you watch a movie or play a video game, you discover new things that you are not accustomed to perceiving in your reality. Discover new situations, new events, new designs, new objects, see original graphics, among a multitude of aspects.

Therefore, while you play, you are developing your creativity. Well, you are more creative than you think; what happens that perhaps, yet, you have not discovered what your creative side is.

What is design thinking?

To not only need creativity, but we also need to develop our creativity. For that, it is necessary to think, and it is necessary to consider what we want to represent and how we want to do it. However, it is necessary to consider what the vision that people may have of our Well, nobody thinks like us, therefore, we must make sure that what we are going to transmit will really be transmitted to our audience.

What is the design in art?

Design moves people because, in many cases, it represents ideas, ways of thinking, desires, and situations. If you look at the media, many include satirical vignettes. Normally they do so in protest or refer to a political, economic, or social context or event. But vignettes are a representative element used by the media.

In them, without the need to incorporate any text, many people understand what the media wants to convey with that vignette. Well, that is creativity, that is design, and in short, it is an art since it is about transmitting a concept, idea, circumstance, or a series of values to society.

Design definition in art

According to an official definition, design is the art of the possible. In more technical terms, design is the conscious and deliberate process by which elements, components, potentials, trends, etc., are intentionally arranged in the space-time continuum to achieve the desired result. Well, it makes perfect sense because, through design, we transmit values or a message, just like art.

What is the design in pdf?

Imagine that we want to make a PDF, present a project, present our work as a portfolio, present our CV, or a PDF that contains professional information. Surely, we want to keep a good impression on the part of our client. Therefore, it is very likely that we design that PDF, that is, that we decide in which part of the document, we will include everything, that we decide how we are going to represent it, with what colors, with what graphics, etc.

Therefore, the design becomes important, even in the presentation of our projects.

What is the design process?

The design process is complex. As each person is creative, some people are more creative than others. Some people are very creative, but they still don’t know it. You must discover your own creativity, we are all creative, but you must discover your own creative side. The design process is complex.

It is very difficult for you to make a good design at the beginning unless you are very creative or have very clear what you want to represent.

Therefore, it is good to go practicing. Well, as you design, you will improve your creativity and, at the same time, discover what your creative part is. Once you have discovered it, you will make good designs, come up with new ideas, and achieve success without any doubt.

Therefore, if you want to generate a good design, you must work hard. It will be in the design process where you discover the ideas, the best designs, and the best ways to design what you want.

Types of design

I am going to finish this essay explaining the several types of design, which are the following:

– Architectural Design: Project living spaces for the human being: buildings, parks, public squares, houses.

– Design of Spaces: It is responsible for carrying out projects of the use and adaptation of the spaces according to specific needs of its usefulness: commercial, residential, educational, labor.

– Industrial Design: Projects industrial production objects for human use from a spoon to the body of a car or the fuselage of an airplane, through furniture, tools, artifacts.

– Graphic Design: Reproduce significant visual messages: logos and brands, posters, magazines, book covers, websites.

– Fashion Design: Design and make clothes and clothing accessories: clothes, shoes, jewelry.

– Textile Design: Combination of some methods of Graphic Design with some others of Industrial Design and Fashion Design, consists of conceiving and configuring fabrics and patterns for the textile industry: prints, yarns, embroidery, fibers.

– Interactive Design: Focused on the design of digital interfaces and software.

What Is Design Thinking

Guys, you know Design is a work process that has a user perspective and drives development based on your specific customers’ needs. Then Design is the process of imagining and planning the creation of objects, systems, buildings, vehicles, etc., so It is about creating solutions for people.

If we don’t know that Design isn’t just about making things look appealing, or just about usability, or even just delight. So It is about taking products from usable to delightful, and then beyond that — to meaningful.

What Is Design: Your Opinion:

According to you, What is design in one sentence? Thinking about the moral responsibilities in design, I need a precise definition. Then Design Thinking is being taught at leading universities around the world. So Here we’ll cut to the chase and tell you what it is, as well as why it’s so in demand. The best thing is that Why design? What purpose does it serve? It is not purely aesthetic, nor wholly analytical and functional.

When considering the design of your projects, you must think about how everything fits together, so Design is all around us as we have more than making things pretty. To learn more about what design is and its role in our world today, so Mission,

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For Example:

Although every type of designing multiple types of website, for example, so overall major thing and first thing, and most importantly, the effective thing you design for is user types of experience. I’m every way, and these are effectively enhancing things.

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Importance

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It may be unnecessary to some, totally, but to most, its overall purpose is obvious as its outcome leads to a much better life.

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So overall, Businesses do not always require a creative type of element to be overall successful. However, while your multiple businesses overall run as normal as a way, a designer can explore different types of new and different ways of turning your overall multiple ideas and thought into a real way and different types of products or different types of services.

Importance of design in art

So Basically overall They learn to different types of think and different types of activities as an artist way, different types of makers and different types of designers, to be working way creatively and intelligently way .so although to be overall

Hence, They develop a basically in appreciation of and engagement in creating art, creativity craft, and creativity overall design as critical types of different consumers and multiple audiences and an understanding of its overall role in the multiple creative and multiple cultural of industries that shape and overall enrich their overall lives.

Importance of Design in Marketing

So overall, It’s multiple types of design decisions like these that are very responsible for the overall experience multiple types of customers have once they interact with your multiple product and services. So although it makes the overall multiple purchase types of the process easier and more and more viable for your multiple customers, so totally but it can help to provide overall important multiple types of information that can impact all types of aspects of your overall business process.

Importance of design in school

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Importance of Design in College

So the importance of design in college totally depends on effective design and creativity of these areas.

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Importance of Design in Graphic Design

Graphic design plays a more important role in today’s modern types of different types of the competitive global environment. So overall, The graphics types of designing have become an integral part of any types of multiple types of business and multiple types of occasion.

Also, a good type of graphic type design should have effectively communicated to overall the message of the overall all types of the sender to the main target overall multiple types of the audience using effective types of tools of visual types of communication in overall areas.

Importance of Design in Career

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Types Of Graphic Designing:

Well, Good types of design are so much and much more than creating multiple types of good-looking products in different ways. Moreover, It is totally about making an overall positive type of enhancing the experience for all types of users at every type of touchpoint, with every type of interaction. So overall multiple types of Design influence what types we think, the total way we can feel, and the different types of decisions we make.

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A good design some plus points:

• The first one Innovative types
• The second one is the product useful
• Further, The third one is making different types of products understandable
• The fourth one div Honest
• The fifth one is Long-lasting
• Hence, The sixth one is Environmentally types of friendly

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Humans speak through languages and things speak through design. It seems today that nobody claims to speak a foreign language they haven’t studied but everybody thinks they know design.

Let’s dive deep into the world of design and try to understand why it is so important and what purposes it serves.

• The many-sided nature of design
  

• THE PURPOSE OF DESIGN
  
  • Your design doesn’t have to be original
  • Designers are not like their users
    
  • UX design is more than just usability
    
  • Design is not a stage of the project
    
  • Eye candy design works
    
  • Simple doesn’t mean minimal in design

• USER INTERFACE DESIGN
  
  • Color in design
    
  • Typography in design
    
  • Icons in design
    
  • Animation in design
    
    • For attention
      
    • For feedback
      
    • For progress

• UX WRITING

The many-sided nature of design

In simple and brief words, a design is a plan to make something.

“Design is a plan for arranging elements in such a way as best to accomplish a particular purpose.” 

― Charles Eames, American designer, architect, and filmmaker

Meanwhile, the meaning of design depends on the context and can also mean a variety of other things. Design is the creation of an experience. It’s also the process of the said creation and how well it’s organized. On top of that, design is the result, i.e. the things we see, hear, and feel.

The meaning of design is so multifaceted, to the point that you can no longer say if a universal definition is at all possible. You can, however, try to look at the sum of the parts to come up with a more realistic picture. So, Charles Eames said that design is all about purpose. Let’s dive deeper into this idea. 

The purpose of design

Every type of design exists to solve problems. To see the problem and find a solution, designers rely on data. So the toolset of the designer is based on research, not prettification.

Your design doesn’t have to be original

It’s a common misconception that novelties and hype in design will sell a product. The only reason conventional and textbook design patterns exist is because they are tested, proven, and they work. According to Jakob’s Law of Internet User Experience, users spend most of their time on other sites, so it makes perfect sense to design for patterns for which users are accustomed.

We only implement new approaches if we are 100% positive they are better than the existing ones. This alone comes from a great deal of research.

The great design solution you are looking for is out there.

The real challenge is to find it.

Every time you make a user think through an ‘innovative’ navigation pattern or an unorthodox menu placement, it’s a chance to lose them. Not because they are dumb but because we gravitate to familiar things more than we do to the unknown. If we do go for it though, we make sure everything about the new design is bulletproof.

Designers are not like their users

Everybody has biases and it’s okay. Cognitive biases reduce the load and help us stay sane. That being said, it’s important to know whether your bias is damaging your design work.

Designers and owners know their product inside out. Their bias is called the Curse of Knowledge. It’s when you find it extremely difficult to think about problems from the perspective of lesser-informed people. On top of that, your goals are entirely different from those of the people you are building for.

People want to get things done, not listen about how cool you are.

What makes us different? If you are reading this, you are top of the food chain when it comes to computers. Most people are not and they don’t care. They don’t know what it takes to build a digital product just like we don’t know what it takes for our computers to work off the power line. Everybody knows something no one else does.

Oddly enough, the more employees a design company has, the stronger their detachment from real users. No matter how good they think they are. Ask Google about Buzz.

That is why it’s vital for design agencies to keep it humble and always research their users, study their goals and pains. The more we know about our users, the less biased we are. Eventually, people will have their own habits and biases about our product. But we have got to convert them first.

UX design is more than just about usability

Usability is about making a product for people to accomplish their goals. UX design is a lot more robust than just that. It brings delight and meaning to ordinary things. Good UX design matters because it makes every step enjoyable, even the negative ones. If there is no network connection, the website should not die. If a page doesn’t exist, the 404 should not be a bummer. That’s a UX design job. It goes further beyond the familiar definition of user experience.

Why UX design is important and what makes good design:

• Good design will crack you up. User satisfaction is no longer a goal. It’s a default every design solution should be in line with. However, the fun and delight are the goals. The hard sell times are past. Modern design seduces and brings pleasure.
• Good design will eat your money and make you feel good about it. Practical value is only a part of what people are willing to pay for. Another part is happiness. If your design makes people feel good, they will forgive you for technical issues and bad updates. How to make them happy? Be genuine and honest about your work. Listen. Change.
• Good design feels like a person. For people to care, they have to empathize with something. If a product is designed in a way that favors everything, it favors nothing. You make a social impact by having a strong distinctive voice, promoting the right kind of values, and identifying with your audience. No matter what type of business you do, there has to be a human side to it.
• Good design has meaning. Meaning connects people with objects. If that connection is meaningful, it will stay for years. The design should empower people to establish the connections they need to feel free, capable, and enlighted.

Design is not a stage of the project

Even in deep tech circles, there is an idea that design is a time in the project when they draw sketches of the interfaces. It is not. Design starts when the owner first puts together the image of the product and ends when the project is done which is never.

The choice of a business model can’t rely on the goals of the owners. There might be a natural talent and an insane gut feeling but it would be foolish to rest on them.

Knowledge of how the product could fit into people’s lives is UX. Knowledge of how to implement it is UI.

UX does not result in UI. It penetrates production, testing, analytics, support, and updates that follow the creation of just interfaces. Those who realize that a designer is more than just a pencil, end up with a consistent and reliable product as opposed to a patchwork of narrow tasks.

A business owner shouldn’t be surprised when no other than a designer will start asking them about their business strategy. In fact, a designer will only be drawing the UIs for 12.5% of the time they’ll be involved in the project.

Eye candy design works

It might appear that design, especially the digital one, takes itself too seriously. Indeed, there are usability geeks who don’t believe aesthetics have any impact. They exemplify it by the unattractive likes of Reddit and Craigslist.

Design is no place for extremities. When there’s looks not backed by proper functionality, it’s empty. When it’s just handy and useful, there’s no emotion tied to it and it is also bad. To find the balance between usability and aesthetics, we need to know how attention works and what makes something perceived as beautiful.

To reach more people, your expertise has to spread thin and let emotions onboard users. The visual design drives emotion.

This is how web design works. The vibe of a website decides whether a person will stay and discover the features. Design is engineering in the sense that we know how to engineer delight. Through visual design, we bring meaning to ordinary things and help people find value.

An illustration is a shell for something that it represents on a deeper level. When we designed a professional platform for architects, we created an animation of elements that mimics the behavior of a construction site.

It might look subtle and may not seem worth the struggle at the early stages of design like wireframing and prototyping. But it’s important for a designer to keep in mind the image of the finished product. More so, the way you visually present your digital product says a lot about the brand in general.

No matter how good the service, if it doesn’t care for itself, neither will the people.

For skeptics, no attractive things don’t work better but they are always worth a try. Beautifully designed products get half of their credibility because of the visual appeal. It’s the developer’s job to pull the rest of the features to that level. Most people think if it looks good, it has to work well as well.

“Usability is not everything. If usability engineers designed a nightclub, it would be clean, quiet, brightly lit, with lots of places to sit down, plenty of bartenders, menus written in 18-point sans-serif, and easy-to-find bathrooms. But nobody would be there. They would all be down the street at Coyote Ugly pouring beer on each other.”

– Joel Spolsky

The point is, how the product works is important but how it looks while doing that is a game-changer.

Simple vs minimal in design

If you make a rating of comments on Dribbble, the ones that feature the words ‘clean’ and ‘simple’ will be well ahead of the rest. Simplicity has long become one of the staples in design. Because of that, there appeared a bunch of false beliefs that use the term ‘simplicity’ with regard to things that end up being far from simple. So what design is simple and what is minimal?
It’s important to know the distinction between the two main concepts of design optimization:

• Simplicity is a reduced complexity

• Minimalism is a reduced quantity

The practice of reducing and decluttering is a discipline of its own. To know what to reduce means to have confidence there will be no tension put on a user as the result of our design experiments. It’s called friction. Every design decision we make has to reduce friction. Sometimes it coerces designers into minimalism, hence the thriving trend for minimalism in web and app design. But it’s important to know where to stop.

Reducing the volume of text on buttons means substituting it with icons. But how universal are the icons? Are you 100% confident your mute icon is unambiguous and won’t mean radar to some? The Floppy Disk “Save” Icon is starting to lose a whole generation of people who have never seen one in real life.

Minimal interface design is not purpose-driven. It’s a style. Simplicity comes from our understanding of the experience no matter how multi-elemental the UI is.

The design has to be visible first so that it won’t do harm. The notorious hamburger menu has taken a beating but made its way into the designers’ minds and earned respect. What this shows is you can’t force minimalism and count on simplicity.

All Adobe products are insanely non-minimalistic. At the same time, they are perfectly clear in terms of performance and functionality. You can research the interface and make it simple, yours. But you can’t make yours something that’s not there.

To demonstrate the magnitude of the issue with simplicity and minimalism, let us bring Nielsen Norman Group’s UX case study of Tesla Model S’ 17-inch screen car interface. The main idea is that by mounting this tablet-like device on the dashboard, Tesla tapped into a realm of drivelessness and made the experience way more simple. They minimized the driver’s input but created a new pattern of behavior that might appear dangerous.

Take lane assistance. It minimizes the driver’s efforts to change lanes on one hand and dissolves their attention on the other. An engineer’s urge to minimize the pattern might cost someone their life.

Designers have to step in and take responsibility for the mental state we put people in with our products.

If it’s driving, we can’t simplify it and give people a full sense of security because. We can’t know all the possible outcomes of all the possible scenarios. Let people stay in charge, but make the experience clear and enjoyable.

User interface design

A user interface is the main touchpoint of a designed product and a user. The UI design is about providing a user with the simplest and most efficient way to interact with a product. In that sense, a designer has to be well aware of the following three concepts of user interface design:

• Condition or where the UI exists.
• Content or what the UI looks like.
• Context or who operates the UI.

Understanding each of these three gives a designer the most important tools to build a visual solution for any type of product.

To become visual, elements have to be designed. Those which are visible by nature, need design even more.

The UI (user interface) consists of several fundamental elements that all have to be addressed with high-level awareness.

Color in design

What most people and, sadly, many designers know about color does not do it enough justice. Color is the first thing we’d notice but the last we’d understand. Colors can’t be explained and described unless seen. They can’t be changed but can be learned and used. This is how nature communicates with you, and that is why color is so important in design. Ben Hersh wrote a great guide to color in design, you might want to check it out to better understand the question.

“Colors are powerful symbols by which you live or die; they’re worth paying attention to.”

– Ben Hersh

Psychology separates color studies into a standalone discipline. Marketers know the basics of color theory in design and use it to stimulate people’s sense of security, alert, and so on. Designers use color to speak instead of words. Yet, colors don’t exist outside our consciousness.

Before the age of digital screens, people used colors as attributes of physical objects. That’s why there are so many color names attached to the toponyms (names of places). Like umber named after the soil in the Italian region of Umbria and turquoise from the French for “Turkish”. To become a recognized color, it had to exist in the real world.

As our understanding of color grew stronger, color theories began to pop out attempting to define, systemize, and classify colors.

From the Middle Ages to the 1970s’ advent of HSL and HSV color models, all the exploration and discovery lead us to the three colors: red, green, and blue.

Out of the combinations of these three, you can get virtually any color. However, this is the set we decide to stick to today. It has been different before and it might change in the future. There is no such thing as primary colors apart from those we decide to consider as such.

We differentiate the current color models depending on the media they will be displayed on and the purpose of the visual presentation. We might leave out some colors which are not visible on the screens or include those which are not visible by the eye. Modern color technology is controlled by mathematics. But the problem is the variability of conditions under which we see these colors.

A modern color theory puts our brain in charge of our color perception depending on the context and looks to find the schemes and methods of producing colors accordingly.

“The color spaces we can see look more like psychedelic pinecones.”

– Ben Hersh

For a designer, to know color means to be able to mathematically select the colors and have the choice backed up by data. At the same time, we as designers have to be keenly aware of how colors are perceived in different cultures and how that perception changes over time.

Colors are the products of physics and mathematics but also intuitive and elusive enough to never let us rest.

Typography in design

Another thing that pops up every time there’s a talk about digital product content is typography. Technically, being just a shell for the meaning, it sometimes can be as significant as the meaning itself. Because if it doesn’t represent that meaning in good fashion, it will go unnoticed.

Text is the strongest medium of information. It might not be so much in terms of emotive response but definitely is in terms of being informative. Text is delivered by means of fonts, or typefaces, in general – typography.

Certain things only exist in one representation – text.

Typography is a design patrimony. Like any other design-specific method, typography is purpose-driven but also aesthetic. As a functional element, typography in the UI is used to guide people, invoke an action, and help them through the entire experience. That’s about the headings, titles, text in menus, buttons, CTAs, and so on.

When it comes to typography as an aesthetic element in web design, we implacably steer towards branding. Words express individuality which is the core of identity. Designers can boost that individuality through the usage of typefaces to reflect the unique character of a brand.

Typography as part of branding helps the product stand out.

Icons in design

Because nobody has time. We have lists everywhere. Lists are how we make sense of the abundance around us. We list foods, apps, TV channels, even friends of Facebook. This helps us structure the information and memorize it better. No wonder lists have made their way into web design where everything can be categorized. That’s how features, services, advantages, and payment plans started being aligned in lists.

Turned out, lists are good for structuring but do no good in the visual aspect.

For a list to become an attention anchor, it has to have a visual element to it. Compare the classic heading-text combo and an icon-heading-text combo:

Designers give icons a chance to give a quick snapshot of what the point is about. In this case, icons are Metaphoric Substances. This is the least icons can do. In fact, you can encode a lot of information in them in the context where the estate is a factor.

Game designers took it even further and created systems of logically-connected icons representing different in-game assets. This is called Visual Synonymity.

There is a fine line between icons that convey a metaphor allowing designers to cover all bases in case the textual meaning is missed and pure decorative-functioning icons. We make sure icons work in the first place, which means they motivate a user to do what we expect from them.

Ideally, icons should work the way emojis do – as a universal language flexible enough to deliver any message cross-culturally and obvious enough to leave no second guesses 💡

Animation in design

Every physical object moves. They might be still technically, but in relation to the environment, they all move. As the Sun goes over a stone in the woods, the game of light and shadows enlivens the dead stone.

Our eyes and brain are designed to capture movement because it bears a lot of information. It’d be a shame to leave it unaccounted for.

Motion is the first thing we see in the product along with color, images, and typography. These four are the main contributors to the brand’s/product’s personality. It’s important for a product to have a stance on how it’s elements move and what stands behind that movement. But first, why animation is important in UX design:

• Illustrative. It can demonstrate the functionality or help understand it better.
• Amusing. Value can be expressed in many ways. Positivity is one of them.
• Familiar. We expect certain reactions from certain actions. Animation familiarizes.
• Engaging. We tend to follow patterns and animation is a great source of those.

The reason to animate the interface depends on the goal of that specific interaction. Let’s take engaging a user and directing their attention. Since movement is something we instantly see, it makes sense to use animation for things like banner ads and spams. Ads aren’t expected to sell the product, as much as they hunt for views. A view is a sell and they will get it from you by using cheap tricks. Banner ads animation is definitely a cheap trick that works.

How and when to use animation:

• For attention

The principle itself is innocent though. More so, if we use animation to direct users in a way that helps them, the same banner ad principles might contribute to a good UX. For example, a file sending gone wrong does not have to be a pop-up with an error code or a “whoops” type message. We can attract attention to this by using a meaningful motion graphic.

This animation won’t get you confused about the success of your sending and will make sure you address the issue whatever that is. At the same time, it won’t be too intimidating because the animation is done in a friendly way.

• For feedback

Animation magnifies the satisfaction you get from successfully performing a task. The more complex the task, the more rewarding it should be. Motion is how we convey the mood and the attitude of a product to the user’s actions.

Such animation can cover up the time needed to complete the technical request or form submission. The spinning bubble ensures there is work going on and appeals to our natural feeling of completion.

• For progress

Most web processes have designated patterns that people recognize and expect. At the same time, with a variety of devices and screen media, it’s extremely challenging to maintain the same behavior with a lesser estate. This means we have to divide certain processes into comprehensible bits while mapping the entire progress.

This is how Google addresses a rather complicated and long process of copying information to Pixel phones.

Since this is a phone, you won’t be able to just switch to a different tab and keep yourself busy with something else. Still, you have to know what exactly is happening and why it is important.

The animation is a huge part of modern UI/UX design and we are just getting started with it. It’s a natural process of evolution that will ultimately make all animation meaningful and purposeful, forever cutting the ties to decoration. Added complexity will be replaced with modalities and subtle messages a well-thought-out animation certainly brings.

UX writing

UX writing is a process of creating copy for user interfaces. Some of you might be surprised to see writing listed among the fundamental aspects of interface design. However, writing is the most important accomplishment in human history. We are surrounded by products that are just the recreation of someone’s ideas. Sometimes those ideas are centuries old. Ideas travel by words.

The reason why animal life is finite is the inability to pass the experience of one animal to another after it. As humans, we can do this.

We pass knowledge and multiply it. This is called collective thinking and it has writing in its core.

Words are how we think and define the world around us. Words are human experience coded in something massive and yet extremely fluid – the language. The design relies on such elements and shares a long and dramatic history with writing.

Just like designers build a collection of methods, principles, and tools, they tend to do the same with a vocabulary used in interfaces. Indeed, some companies have style guides. Then there are acknowledged guides like the Chicago Manual of Style, Microsoft Manual of Style, and Associated Press Manual. They contain general recommendations for writers and designers working on specific things – documents, guides, and other user-facing assets. They teach how to avoid confusion and ambiguity but while doing that, they put a lid on the actual voice of the product.

Design values individuality equally to usefulness. Tech culture took away individuality in writing only leaving it to the creative sphere. However, if the design speaks to the emotive perception, writing has to follow.

This is how UX writing was born. At some point, designers started using a specific vernacular to name the UI elements. Good or bad, they were authentic bits of text, specific for the product. We call it microcopy and it works like a regular copy with a tweak. The tweak is that even though the text is clear and simple, you can’t reuse it for another product. It won’t feel right, like something is missing. That something is context. Microcopy says things differently and exudes topicality.

All of a sudden the unification everybody was going for gave way to individuality through one of the best ways to pass information – words. Because words matter.

Some designers went astray and became… UX writers. And they started approaching writing with all their knowledge and skills of visual influence. The UX writing principles quickly found their form in a pyramid.

There are two layers. UX writing does not have to be personal. The essence of the product can be fulfilled by the UX writing principles alone. If it is clear, it’s helpful and if it helps, it becomes significant. The top layer is what UX writing is amplified by – the socially pleasing brand voice.

On paper, it’s quite simple but how do you put it to practice with real words and real problems?

Why we need design

Why do we use design in our everyday lives? As has been said at the beginning of this article, the meaning of design is basically about planning the most optimal way to reach a certain goal. From this perspective, everything that surrounds us is the result of design, and we design one thing or another every day, be it your breakfast or a complex report needed for your job. It’s something that is always around us holding everything together. Design is important in life because it’s an incredibly powerful force, forever changing and being changed.

Web and app design is about business goals at its heart. The value of good design is the heightened chances of success. It matters because, without an adequate design survey, every business venture is a shot in the dark. Maybe you get lucky, maybe you don’t. Professional web and app design give a company’s customers a better experience, and that’s what matters. Entrepreneurs are proud of their businesses, so why not make them perform even better, reflecting the companies’ personalities?

A good design can make people trust you more, alter customer perception, make you memorable, get your message across, make your product work to the fullest, and shine. A great one can do even more.

* * *

What is design? Every professional and author, every team, and every company has its own definition of design and understanding of what it does and what it’s all about. Each of them addresses the question of the meaning of design very differently.

But it seems that it all comes down to the simple fact that the meaning of design however it may vary depending on different projects, fields, and theories is not about beautification as such, but more of solving the specific tasks and making the lives of users better, clearer, more enjoyable.

The article was originally published in January 2020 and was updated in November 2020 to make it more relevant and comprehensive.

He says that, even though in practice inferring design is the first step in identifying an intelligent agent, taken by itself _design does not require that such an agent be posited. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Every fragment of life has its completing part somewhere, given its place in the scheme of the universe by intricate design — always by _design! ❋ Anonymous (N/A)

«Professor Haeckel maintains,» says Mr. Wallace, «_that the struggle for existence in nature evolves new forms without design, just as the will of man produces new varieties in cultivation with design_.» ❋ Samuel Butler (1868)

The inference of intelligence from marks of design in nature is not one of analogy, but of strict and proper _induction_; and accordingly we must either deny that there are marks of _design_ in nature, thereby discarding the _analogy_, or do violence to our own reason by resisting the fundamental law of causality, thereby discarding the inductive inference. ❋ James Buchanan (1837)

It may be how the Nu Gundam is a very solid design in the first place, making the converted Rebornnu Gundam looking more attractive now than the original Reborns Gundam, in Gundam 00 style mecha design~ ❋ Unknown (2010)

Harness PLM for CATIA, transforms the wiring diagrams to harness design• process of designing electrical harnesses The topology modules in SEE Electrical by leveraging the power of CATIA to For more information: www. harness-design.com Harness allow users to generate and significantly reduce cycle times. ❋ Unknown (2009)

My reverend friend is wrong in supposing that I admit DESIGN, and yet refuse to admit the force of the _design argument_, «On the supposition, then, that _law and order_ are manifestations of _design_, the design argument might be valid and conclusive: but» _no conceivable order_ «could prove the existence of God; why? ❋ James Buchanan (1837)

This design is an exquisite example of modern design, but unfortunately it completely ignores the human factor in design. ❋ Unknown (2009)

It’s not often, after all, that a «new» whisky is a painstaking recreation, from flavor down to the label design, of a whisky that was buried in ice for a full century by the great Antarctic explorer, Sir Ernest Shackleton. ❋ Tony Sachs (2011)

In response to this work, one of IDEO’s founders coined the term «design thinking» to represent an approach to problem solving that moved away from the analytical and rational and evoked a more «human-centered» outlook. ❋ Dylan Kendall (2011)

Other wineries have used crowd sourcing for things like naming a wine or choosing a label design, but not to decide on things like which strain of yeast or how far apart the rollers are on the grape crusher. ❋ Mary Orlin (2011)

Poetry in design is explored by studying the transformative properties of the wind and applying them to a common piece of furniture that typically does not communicate above a functional level. ❋ Unknown (2009)

ÂOther wineries have used crowd sourcing for things like naming a wine or choosing a label design, but not to decide on things like which strain of yeast or how far apart the rollers are on the grape crusher. ❋ Mary Orlin (2011)

myself and [countless] other graduates Australia-wide. ❋ Dj (2003)

i just [got to] [buy] these new [designer] …. ❋ Zohar David (2005)

Design is an aesthetic [delineation] of materialism. In [liminism] it can also be a «materialistic» a-lineation of [aestheticism]. ❋ Sandrashine (2019)

that’s [the most] [wacked] design i’ve [seen]. ❋ VEA (2003)

verb: He was [designated] as [prime minister]
adjective: The Director [designate] ❋ DieKry01 (2010)

[Abu], I’m [touching cloth] here my friend, where is the [designated] shitting area? ❋ ScatTalk (2016)

«Our [company] uses a Designeering [method]»
» You’re [such a] Designeer» ❋ Perpetualtikkaa (2020)

Someone: «I ate your [cupcake].»
Me: «You’re the design.»
Thing: *looks like a lion with a [wig] playing the [oboe]:
Me: «That’s the design.» ❋ Uht, Rude (2021)

I am [wearing] a designer [hand bag]. It looks so [expensive]. ❋ GalleriaofArtCOM (2014)

I want [the wash] [rags] [designative]! ❋ Maddie3299 (2011)

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD DESIGN

From Latin dēsignāre to mark out, describe, from de- + signāre to mark, from signum a mark, sign.

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Design is a verb and can also act as a noun.

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Definition of design in the English dictionary

The first definition of design in the dictionary is to work out the structure or form of, as by making a sketch, outline, pattern, or plans. Other definition of design is to plan and make artistically or skilfully. Design is also to form or conceive in the mind; invent.

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• Defenition of the word design

  • The visual representation of a person or an object.
  • To lay out or plan.
  • To make or work out a plan for; devise.
  • To assign for a specific end, use, or purpose; to design or destine.
  • To make a (graphic) design of.
  • The way in which something is composed, shaped, or made.
  • something intended as a guide for making something else; «a blueprint for a house»; «a pattern for a skirt»
  • a preliminary sketch indicating the plan for something; «the design of a building»
  • intend or have as a purpose; «She designed to go far in the world of business»
  • design something for a specific role or purpose or effect; «This room is not designed for work»
  • conceive or fashion in the mind; invent; «She designed a good excuse for not attending classes that day»
  • create the design for; create or execute in an artistic or highly skilled manner; «Chanel designed the famous suit»
  • create designs; «Dupont designs for the house of Chanel»
  • the act of working out the form of something (as by making a sketch or outline or plan); «he contributed to the design of a new instrument»
  • a decorative or artistic work; «the coach had a design on the doors»
  • an arrangement scheme; «the awkward design of the keyboard made operation difficult»; «it was an excellent design for living»; «a plan for seating guests»
  • make a design of; plan out in systematic, often graphic form; «design a better mousetrap»; «plan the new wing of the museum»
  • the creation of something in the mind
  • make or work out a plan for; devise; «They contrived to murder their boss»; design a new sales strategy»; «plan an attack»
  • an anticipated outcome that is intended or guides your planned actions; «his intent was to provide a new translation»; «it was created with the conscious aim of answering immediate needs»; «he made no secret of his designs»
  • an anticipated outcome that is intended or that guides your planned actions; «his intent was to provide a new translation»; «good intentions are not enough»; «it was created with the conscious aim of answering immediate needs»; «he made no secret of his d
  • make or work out a plan for; devise; «They contrived to murder their boss»; «design a new sales strategy»; «plan an attack»
  • the act of working out the form of something (as by making a sketch or outline or plan)
  • a decorative or artistic work
  • a preliminary sketch indicating the plan for something
  • an arrangement scheme
  • something intended as a guide for making something else
  • an anticipated outcome that is intended or that guides your planned actions
  • intend or have as a purpose
  • plan something for a specific role or purpose or effect
  • conceive or fashion in the mind; invent
  • make or work out a plan for; devise
  • make a design of; plan out in systematic, often graphic form
  • create the design for; create or execute in an artistic or highly skilled manner
  • create designs

Synonyms for the word design

• • aim
  • blueprint
  • conceive
  • conception
  • construct
  • contrive
  • create
  • designing
  • device
  • devise
  • draft
  • draw up plans
  • drawing
  • end
  • enterprise
  • excogitation
  • fabricate
  • figure
  • goal
  • innovation
  • intend
  • intent
  • intention
  • invent
  • invention
  • mean
  • model
  • motif
  • object
  • originate
  • outline
  • pattern
  • plan
  • point
  • project
  • proposal
  • propose
  • purpose
  • shape
  • sketch
  • strategy
  • target

Similar words in the design

• • design
  • designation
  • designation’s
  • designations
  • designed
  • designing
  • designs

Hyponyms for the word design

• • argyle
  • argyll
  • bear claw
  • blueprint
  • concert
  • concoction
  • configuration
  • constellation
  • contrivance
  • cross-purpose
  • cut
  • damascene
  • decal
  • decalcomania
  • device
  • draft
  • draught
  • emblem
  • engineer
  • final cause
  • herringbone
  • herringbone pattern
  • hotel plan
  • idea
  • layout
  • linocut
  • make up
  • mandala
  • map
  • map out
  • marking
  • meal plan
  • mihrab
  • mind
  • motif
  • motive
  • planning
  • plot
  • polka dot
  • pyrograph
  • redesign
  • sake
  • screen saver
  • snare
  • sunburst
  • tailor
  • tattoo
  • tetraskele
  • tetraskelion
  • trap
  • triskele
  • triskelion
  • view
  • weave
  • will

Hypernyms for the word design

• • arrangement
  • conceive
  • conceptualise
  • conceptualize
  • create
  • create by mental act
  • create mentally
  • creating by mental acts
  • creative thinking
  • creativeness
  • creativity
  • decoration
  • designate
  • destine
  • end
  • gestate
  • goal
  • ideate
  • intend
  • make
  • mean
  • organisation
  • organization
  • ornament
  • ornamentation
  • plan
  • program
  • programme
  • sketch
  • specify
  • study
  • system
  • think

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