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The trick following of consumers place their trust to satisfy what to living a better life, it would seem, is going with the choices they want or need out of a product. Most of us know that aren’t the easiest way out; the decisions that aren’t just about Designers from the area of fashion, but the concept the best solutions for you at that moment in time, but rather also exists in other industries even though the D-word the ones that will be good for you many years into the future. is not commonly applied. For instance, Apple would Things that are worthwhile take effort, and making decisions that commit you to making an effort will open up more choices be considered a Designer in the Computer industry, down the line, if not immediately. perhaps garnering as much blind faith in the quality and People often do start off with such tragic situations, and/ prestige of its products as would a handbag by Prada, or or make such poor decisions that their lives can spin out of shoes by Louis Vuitton. control. True, bad things do happen to good people, but most However, design is the natural process that goes hand in good people that I know, naturally accumulate others who hand with the implementation of just about anything manmade truly care about them, and can help them get through tough – an object, a process, an idea. A design can be the result times. The whole concept of bad Karma is an accumulation of of meticulous planning, or it can take shape purely as a consequences from past decisions that strangle your ability to consequence of its needed function. A good design satisfies its move forward – it is how people guarantee their own failure for objective with relative ease, while a bad design perhaps defeats the rest of their lives. its own purpose. Designs are solutions to specific problems, In reality, Mother Nature’s safety net, when you can no longer and thus can never be perfect for all applications. However meet your minimal requirements for life, is death. Of course, they can be gradually improved and expanded through an even making all of the right decisions can’t put it off forever – we evolutionary process of use, feedback, and renewal. are designed to die. Nevertheless, the simple brutal rule of life So many, if not all of us are designers (lower-case “d”). In our is to either adapt, or die to make room for those who can. everyday lives we may rely on other people’s designs a great deal, But in the society that we know, while people may deserve but there is still room or requirement for us to create our own many things, dying is not one of them. Even when a person designs in order to solve unique and unexplored problems. wrongs us in the most grievous way, I think it is safe to say Informally, a designer can collect and combine other designs that most of us would rather see them live and change, than to be used as pieces in a larger design of their own. For see their life extinguished, and their memory languishing in instance, a drag queen or drag king designs their performance error for eternity. This is what we try to do to keep them away as a patchwork of outfits, makeup, songs and props, all weaved from Mother Nature’s solution to weakness, even if it means together by their own stylings. taking away control by force until they are no longer a danger to In business, where we stand to profit from design, we have themselves and others.