What is Design? A different take on its defination.

Alphesda Interactive | Amir
6 min readOct 26, 2020

Design is everywhere; it surrounds us both on the physical and the mental state. It dictates how we approach things, how we use things and how it affects us. Design’s effects are all over our daily lives. Design is fundamentally part of the universe. It is what we call the foundation of logic and emotion encapsulated into the one word: ‘Design’.

The design takes on many forms and in a variety of aspects; from a pen, we use to write, to the phone that’s in everyone’s pocket.

It is a stereotype belief that design is how something looks. It is so ingrained into our DNA, that people in some professional industries divide everything into Design and Function, where design is interchangeably referred to as the aesthetics. This is pretty much true when it comes to how consumers talk about things. If you are into design or just getting started, you might have then heard of the following terms: “functional design” and “User Experience Design”.

Functional design’s definition could vary from one expert to another but the mighty Wikipedia gives us an interesting definition of ” Functional Designis a paradigm used to simplify the design of hardware and software devices such as computer software and increasingly, 3D models. A functional design assures that each modular part of a device has only one responsibility and…

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