What is Design?

To design is to pull together something new or

to arrange existing things in a new way to

satisfy a recognized need of society.

You have equilateral triangle shaped blocks with you. There is a need to make stable seat

Arrange existing things in a new way Pull together something new

What are other challenges you can predict that could be faced by the
designer while designing the seat?
Recognized Needs of the society
 The ability to design is both a science and an art.

The science can be learned through

techniques and methods……

…….but the art is best learned by doing!

 Design and Discovery. Are they same?

Discovery is getting the first sight of, or the first knowledge of something!

We can discover what has already existed but has not been
known before!

But a design is the product of planning and

work.
Design and Invention

Design may or may not involve invention

To obtain a legal patent on an invention requires that the

design be a step beyond the limits of the existing knowledge
(beyond the state of the art)
• Who Discovered America?

• Who Discovered North Pole?

• Who Invented Steam Engine?

• Who Invented Telephone?

 Classify following as discoveries and inventions
Proton
Sea route to India 3D Printing Electricity
Big Bang Theory

Gravity Radio Printing Press

X rays Robot Electron

Telephone
Theory of Relativity
Fire Internet
Computers Chlorophyll
Ludo
Mobile Phones Penicillin Furniture

Pacemaker
 “A scientist can discover a new star but he cannot
make one. He would have to ask an engineer to do it
for him!”
- G.L. Glegg (1969)
IMPORTANCE of Design
Process
Why study the design process?

Dr. Abhinav Varshney, MANIT Bhopal

Which of the following products would have been designed?

2 3
1

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Development of every product has to undergo
the design process! Be it a simple toy or complex
machines/equipments!

Dr. Abhinav Varshney, MANIT Bhopal

If people have been designing for past 5000 years and there are
billions of objects available that work and work well, why study
the design process?

Dr. Abhinav Varshney, MANIT Bhopal

• Rising needs of the society

• Continuous need for new, cost effective, high quality

products.

Dr. Abhinav Varshney, MANIT Bhopal

Dr. Abhinav Varshney, MANIT Bhopal
Dr. Abhinav Varshney, MANIT Bhopal
With the development, products are becoming so complex
that it requires a dedicated design process!

Most of the these complex products require involvement

of people from diverse fields.

Dr. Abhinav Varshney, MANIT Bhopal