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Design- de-sign or to mark or as by a sign; indicate

a) organization or structure of formal elements in a work of art; composition

b) adaptation of means to a preconceived end

c) management of constraints by Dino Dini

d) is virtually everything you see, and it’s also almost everything you don’t see by  Tom Fisher

e) is art with a purpose by Jeremy Singley

f) thought before, the process or execution, as well as the outcome

which means that you eat, sleep, think design by Dsense