Design to me is the consideration and respect shown to others through gestures and use of space. It is an attitude inherited from childhood where younger ones make room for elders during family gatherings. Design provides opportunities to serve people by initiating new ways to perceive needs and make life easier, as pioneers like Newton and Da Vinci did. It can also introduce new tastes for good living, as through innovators like Raymond Loewy and Steve Jobs. Ultimately, design has a strong association with human users, so it requires a human-centered approach.

1. WHAT IS DESIGN TO ME?
Course: Design Concepts and Concerns
Duration: 5th to 18th Sep. 2011
Name: Nauka Baxi
Furniture and Interior design
Design:.
de.sign (noun.) purpose, planning, or intentions that exists or its thought
to exist behind an action, fact or material object.
de.sign (verb) Do or plan with a specific purpose or intentions in mind.
Purpose:.
pur.pose (noun.) a particular requirement or consideration
Perception of what is design to me, is unconsciously have been
inherited in me. From the childhood, when you see and
understand the seating pattern at times of family gathering and
functions. When the younger ones get up to make a room for
the elder ones. It is a considerate and disciplined manner to
owner and celebrate the presence of elder one, by the younger
one!. Design to me is that “gesture”, design to me is that
attitude and considerations to the people, environment and
space that surrounds us.
Keeping that in mind, because need to good lifestyle is
universal, Design also is an opportunity to serve to the people
as well. There are many layers by which one can touch upon
the design factor in several ways. It can be an initiation like
Newton or Da vinchi, which gives a society a new direction to
perceive their needs and make their life easier and more
productive. It can also be what Raymond Lowey or Steve jobs
did, like to give the society a new taste or way of perceived
good living. But by all means, it does have a very strong
association with human being as a user. Hence, there has to be
a very human approach to it.