### activity | creation:

Design
* acts as a medium for cultural investigation and visual expression.
* are arrangements
  - decoration
  - designing
* are done by designers
  - system designers
* are located in plates
  - rugs
  - sketchs
  - software development
* change over time
  - years
* come from ideas.
* create hot spots
* demonstrate power.
* feature flat surfaces
  - garlands
* follow patterns
  - requirements
* have advantage
  - benefits
  - brief descriptions
  - cost
  - further advantage
  - initial cost
  - sides
  - slight variation
  - texture
* incorporate characteristics
  - details
* increase numbers.
* integrates people, their dwellings and the social and natural environments.
* involve assumptions
  - compromises
  - several assumptions
  - stages
  - tests
  - various stages
* make more senses
* may have advantage.
* meet requirements.
* occurs at the atomic or microstructural level of solid materials.
* offer advantage
  - knowledge
* play roles
  - significant roles
  - vital roles
* plays a key role in successful growth companies
  - major role in almost all aspects of communication
  - pivotal role in the quality of our cities and the quality of our lives
* provide details
  - solutions
* refers to some of the design guidelines for making web pages, graphics, and multimedia.
* refers to the intended characteristics of the output
  - pictorial image of a trade mark design
* require components
  - decisions
* shapes the physical as well as virtual environment of business.
* solve problems.
* use analyses
  - instruments
  - optical instruments
  - principles
+ Diesel-electric: Motors
  * Some designs also store braking energy in a flywheel, which can also charge a battery. However, these make the engine even more complex, and add weight to the vehicle, so are more appropriate for city driving where service stations are always available and there is much stop and go driving.

### activity | creation | design:

Building design
* can also serve as trademarks or service marks.
* matter of life and death.
* plays a key role in sustainability.

Database design
* field very closely related to hypermedia design.
* has nothing to do with using computers.
* is foreign to most people, even computer science students.
* process consisting of many steps.

Design research
* focuses on design theory, methods, and practice.
* is the invention of artifacts to solve problems.

Ecological design
* begins with the intimate knowledge of a particular place.
* occurs in planetary time.
* source of work which is just beginning to get off the ground.

Environmental design
* can discourage crime.
* impacts the quality of life in an area.
* is also a mixing or melding together of different elements.

Ergonomic design
* depends upon knowing the motions available to different regions of the human body.
* fits most body shapes and sizes.
* reduces both bending and fatigue

Experimental design
* critical component of scholarly research.
* involve assumptions
* is an essential part of research in the behavioral and health sciences
  - fundamental to the practice of statistics
* refers to the general experimental strategy.

Good design
* combination of all kinds of different things.
* is an honest expression of the true values of an organization or an artist
  - important source of economic value and competitive advantage
  - integrated approach to materials, fabrication, and logistics
  - interaction among responsible people
  - as much about how something works as how it looks
  - essentially part of society, with it's ideas, passion, form, and function

Green design
* applies to both products and buildings.
* reduces the dependence on resource intensive products and materials.