DESIGN:

The term describes all of the decisions that determine how a particular object, space, or
building will be. It includes most purposeful changes to the physical environment. Design can
also be described as determination of ‘form’. Form is understood to mean every aspect of every
quality, including size, shape, material, structure, texture, and color, that makes one particular
physical reality different from any other. For example, when we speak of a house, an office,
chair, or vehicle, we refer to certain general characteristics, and the useful purposes they serve;
but nothing of the specifics that make them unique, different, special. It is the ‘design’
differences that make them different, so that we can compare them as better or worse.

Designers represent a variety of approaches and aesthetic attitudes. But

they share an understanding at some basic level of what a good design is:

A Good Design Satisfies 3 Essential Criteria:

1. It works well, serving the needs and requirements of its users,

2. It is well made of good and appropriate materials,

3. It is aesthetically successful.

So basically, when we analyze and evaluate a design, we view it in terms of

three qualities:

1. FUNCTION

2. STRUCTURE AND MATERIALS

3. AESTHETICS