Over the last 7 weeks I have been exploring, reading, viewing, and consuming thoughts and information from designers, people and industries about what they believe design is. Throughout this process I have found myself lost in phrases, words, haikus, theses, visuals, etc. The most common expression I keep stumbling upon about design, is that it is an idea or problem waiting to be solved. So, if design comes from an idea or problem, whether your own or someone else’s, design must be the solution.
Solutions in design appear in many different forms such as:
- Mass media distribution
- Engineering
- Architecture
- Programming
- Self-expression
- And the list continues
We, as designers, are the problem solvers; providing the solutions we feel and understand to be the best possible. Without design there is no solution and we lack the building blocks necessary to bring our ideas to fruition.
Therefore as my revised statement to what “design is” is:
Design is a solution.
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