When you hear "design", what do you think about?

— Industrial design (eletronics, machinery)
— Interior design (furniture)
— Web / App design
— Other (systems, sound, games, architecture...)

I'm often surprised at the results of this conversation

I like to think about design from the broadest and most abstract point of view. For me practically everything that surrounds us has a design and someone has been part of the decisions of its form or its motives, whether good or bad...

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When I took a course on philosophy and design the ultimate goal was to create a synthetic definition of design. 

Almost everyone said that design is problem solving. 

But our professor said that solving problems didn't have to be design...

This reflection always resonates in my head. And the truth is that he is right. I even related it to the sculptor who removes pieces of marble until he reaches the final piece of art...

A philosopher who was invited to the course concluded that to design was to impoverish the world. 

I argue that of all the solutions and possibilities that exist, we, the designers, are eliminating options and selecting a final minimum.