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1. "The word design is the first problem... since it is in everyday use and yet gives different meanings to groups of people... 'design' is both a noun and a verb. It can refer to to the end product or the process..."
2. "A structural engineer may describe the process of calculating the dimensions of a beam as design... however a fashion designer creating a new collection might be puzzled [by that usage]"
3. "[but these are] caricatures since good engineering requires significant imagination... and good fashion is unlikely to be achieved without considerable technical knowledge"
4. "Many forms of design deal with precise and vague ideas, call for systematic and chaotic thinking, need both imaginative thought and mechanical calculation." - Brian Lawson, How Designers Think /FIN
