More interestingly, these same commonalties are also found in the processes of designing buildings, and even organizations. In some fields, such as building architecture and industrial design, there is currently a lot of study of the design process. Perhaps by studying the process, across the various media in which designs are realized, we can learn how to better practice, teach, and design.
Engineers have a simplistic, deterministic model of their own design processes.
As soon as one expresses the model, real designers acknowledge it, and recognize its gross inadequacies. Architects rejected it decades ago. Through the centuries, designers have debated the fundamental issue of whether design should be rational or empirical, a question with many corollaries and implications. This talk fiercely defends the empirical side.