1. design - Noun
2. design - Verb
To draw preliminary outline or main features of; to sketch for a pattern or model; to delineate; to trace out; to draw.
To mark out and exhibit; to designate; to indicate; to show; to point out; to appoint.
To create or produce, as a work of art; to form a plan or scheme of; to form in idea; to invent; to project; to lay out in the mind; as, a man designs an essay, a poem, a statue, or a cathedral.
To intend or purpose; -- usually with for before the remote object, but sometimes with to.
To form a design or designs; to plan.
A preliminary sketch; an outline or pattern of the main features of something to be executed, as of a picture, a building, or a decoration; a delineation; a plan.
A plan or scheme formed in the mind of something to be done; preliminary conception; idea intended to be expressed in a visible form or carried into action; intention; purpose; -- often used in a bad sense for evil intention or purpose; scheme; plot.
Specifically, intention or purpose as revealed or inferred from the adaptation of means to an end; as, the argument from design.
The realization of an inventive or decorative plan; esp., a work of decorative art considered as a new creation; conception or plan shown in completed work; as, this carved panel is a fine design, or of a fine design.
The invention and conduct of the subject; the disposition of every part, and the general order of the whole.
Source: Webster's dictionaryIt's really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don't know what they want until you show it to them. Steve Jobs
I don't design clothes, I design dreams. Ralph Lauren
Luck is the residue of design. Branch Rickey
Design and programming are human activities; forget that and all is lost. Bjarne Stroustrup
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. Douglas Adams
He that is kinder than he was wont hath a design upon thee. Italian Proverb