To me, Design is an important process that requires you to take ideas from your mind and transform them into tangible, visible objects or drawings that will propose your new idea.
It is all around us and it is undeniably one of the most important and often uncosidered industries, which is quite humourous seems as the very chair that I am sat at and the keyboard that I am have been designed. Features such as the shape of the back of this chair have been painstakingly researched and studied anthropometrically to ensure optimum comfort and yet it wouldn't be widely considered as a designed product.
Even though design is all around us, designers take a unique approach to how they would like to convey their ideas. Some may begin with looking at the work of others, which can be highly important in discovering what the market already has to offer, what works, what is popular and why. It also allows you to decide what materials are widely used within your target market as well as looking for new and innovative materials/product ideas that have yet to hit the market, allowing you to fill a newly identified gap.
Some designers may begin with drawing. Drawing is such an important way of communicating your ideas to manufacturers and fellow designers. Fashion designers use the aid of illustrations and flats when designing in order to determine what they would like their new garment to look like. On the technical side, they use flats and technical drawings to allow a manufacturing techinician to see how the garment will be put together and created.
I find that designing is a time consuming process and inspiration can be drawn from absolutely anything that inspires you. Projects can begin with looking at something so far removed from the product that is designed, but I think that this is one of the most interesting aspects of design.
http://www.designcouncil.org.uk/about-design/What-design-is-and-why-it-matters/
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