Hi All, Just a thought on this perennial subject. Rather than going
to dictionaries and debating what design *is*, why not ask what
designers do, and define design from that.
As a designer, I can tell you what I do. I'm sure other designers can
do the same. If, as a community, we agree that what I and others do
is designing, then we have a definition.
Such a definition would be anchored in practice rather than abstraction.
David
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