Reading 1 response

In the reading 1 assignment, the article talks about what design is. It says that there are many people that know about design, but have little agreement exists about exactly what is understood by the term design. Design is one of the basic characteristics of what it is to be human, and an essential determinant of the quality of human life. Design affects people every day in every detail of every aspect of what we do. The article also says that there are very few aspects that are not capable of improvement in some significant way. The word design itself has so many levels of meaning that it is a source of confusion. Then the article goes on to tell about the design on different levels, on how when talking about design, one usually leads into one of two directions. First, defining generic patterns and second tracing these patterns through history to understand how and why the present confusion exists. It says that most of the confusion in understanding design stems from the pattern of historical evolution.