Defining Design

One of the books that defines the design of Victor Papaneck is focused on the elements of "design"; in this book he gives his views, definitions and facts based on design. Below, I adopted and supported several ideas of Papaneck (given in the "What is design?" Chapter)). In this supporting article, I tried to use the opinions of other people to support Papanek's view. The main definition of the design of the papanek given in this chapter is "Design is consciously imposing meaningful instructions".

Discussion about the definition of instruction design is not new in our field. The Association of Educational Communication Technology (AECT) defines educational design as "a systematic process of designing, developing and providing educational materials." There are many tasks in the design and development of the curriculum. This created unique skills and people needed to make the course development successful.

Let's define the design pattern quickly before you start. Design pattern was originally introduced by architect and design theorist Christopher Alexander. He noticed that many of our activities are based on patterns. He adjusted his observations according to his work and published a wonderful book on this topic "A Pattern Language". Since then, design patterns have found their position in many areas of our lives, and can be found in the design and development of the user interface.

In the early 2000s design was just beginning to be defined as a broad professional. Nobody knows what it is. Is it a visual design? Are you designing interactions and experiences? What is the user experience? Are these people a web designer? A visual designer? Applications and mobile designs are not yet available. When we arrived in 2010, the design began to summarize itself in the spectrum. The line is still blurred but we have seen the emergence of various occupations. There are graphic designers, visual designers, web designers, and UX / UI designers. However, companies still do not know who they adopt and what type of design they need. As a designer, we do not know what to call myself.