Explaining the nature of design

This paper argues that design is about methods for creating aesthetically acceptable forms (industrial design) and modes of behaviour (service design).
Curiously, Cross (1982) does not discuss the one thing that designers do that most other professions don´t, namely to draw a lot.
The arguments made here lead to an understanding of design that is consistent with the common experience that designers draw things and want things to look as one would draw them. Drawing regains the place it had when design was understood as applied art. Designers are also freed from wondering if the discipline is just a branch of science. They are also freed from defining design in exclusive terms that do not do justice to the fact design synthesizes science, art and the humanities.