Design is easy to define, relatively. Design is creating with a purpose. I am sometimes surprised by the importance of these words. Is more because the negative also exist. There are things without purpose, without reason, love or desire, or even a bias. Undesigned,.. maybe random things that where once random, and later they where copied. Or maybe originally had a purpose, but the act of copying lost enough information that the purpose was lost. Not just the purpose, the intention.

Good design is elegant design with great solutions, but also is just design. Just making choices and giving everything a purpose, that the result is not random, but choices made by somebody. Sometimes these decisions are not correct. Or are not correct for what we want. One car can be designed to look big and remember a rocket, but for modern sensibilities thats wrong, we want more functionality in less space. Design sometimes create qualities without fans. But thats okay, something can be good independent of people preferences, in the absolute. Maybe?

2026-02-09 22:13:51

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