what is the point of design?
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- comicsans0
Design, all design, is about finding a solution to a problem.
Different people have different problems (or goals) be they commercial, aesthetic, whatever, hence the different definitions. There are many solutions to a given problem and it is a matter of opinion which you prefer. The rest is arguing about personal preference.
- BIGGESTDOGINTHEWORLD0
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to sell shit
- set0
Saying that design is to sell stuff is like saying that the sea is for star fish. Very very limited and short sighted view.
Design is absolutely everywhere, not just marketing. You could say that design is problem solving yes. I mean, when some heavy browed smelly human invented the wheel, he designed it, but Im pretty sure it wasn't to sell it.
- ribit0
When I studied industrial design, our lecturers instilled in us that design was like a calling, that we had a responsibility to "save the world from bad design", solving mankind's pressing social and environmental problems, or something (and if we did it well, having fun and making money too)... I'm sad when I see the profession being treated as if its just a superficial commercial thing that doesn't help society or even harms it..
- akrokdesign0
to make a change. to make something better.
- CGN0
to tickle you of course
- marychain0
*yawn.......wut?
- Ranger0
I'd love to say design is problem solving but often it isn't. It should be. Often it is decorating, polishing or elvolving for the sake of keeping things moving. Again - to sell stuff.
I'd love design to exist without the need for it to generate an income, but then it wouldn't be design in the modern sense of the word. If someone designs a product, it has to sell. If someone typesets a book, it is to make it more appealing/functional so that it may sell more.
Being a designer means using your problem solving skills or however you choose to approach the task and satisfy someone elses brief. You pick up a pay check for this.
I didn't get into design to help sell things, but I wouldn't make a living if it didn't.
- Khurram0
Gosh, there's a lot of problems in this world to be designed away!
- Morning_star0
Design is the process in which solutions are created that marry both form and function in perfect balance.
- I like this, however to me its not a process, its an interchangeable set of processes, methods and mediums...so I call it a framework...and to put it simplly for purposeful creation...duhsign
- ...a what?Morning_star
- ukit0
Puts lipstick on the pig
- lowimpakt0
" Design is a from applied creativity. Sort of like physics is a from applied mathematics. "
I like that - it's about providing movement to something potetially position neutral (creativity)
I was having a debate yesterday with an "entrepreneurship" consultant that sets up/incubates small creative businesses and he was saying design is a shit "term" because it is so fluid and that even most designers don't know what it is/means/does/can be.
he was challenging the "point" of design and was looking for the deeper meaning and flattening out the actions of design (creative thinking, knowledge exchange, protoyping, refinement etc etc).
We then got onto the fragmentation of design and how it evolved into an industry/sector aiming at ever decreasing complexity and value - basically the role of creative thinking is being directed at increasingly meaningless problem and the capacity for "designers" to tackle the "big" problems is being evolved out (by education and practice).
anyway - i was trying to defend design but wondered if i should have bothered.