Thoughts on design

Designing is a means by which the lived-worlds of a variety of people are changed without those people necessarily having a say in the changes. It is a practice that requires deep thinking about ethics because of this. When a product, service, or system is changed through a design process, it is changed in order to do something with it. It may not be a change that is needed by the system or the entities connected to it. It is a change that is desired by whomever started the design process. Like research, design is biased in its approach (design goals = research aims).