Design is Yin + Yang

In fact any thing in existence has the Yin + the Yang. In design though the concepts work in a deeper way than most think.

Most people think design is restricted to the final visual rendering of the way something looks - but most designers and some other enlightened ones would know that design has more to it.

Steve Jobs once said,

Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.

Quite honestly, the more I work as a designer, the better I see this truth.

Let’s break down this, apparently difficult, construct of cause + effect.

The cause -

Design is the experience of what you are trying to achieve. Of course there is abstract, almost instantaneous, designs but even that is surrounding a bigger experience, that of life most arguably. But in essence it is the overall vibe of what you are about to build, that you are experiencing. Like, right now I am designing this post.

This cause of design is omni-present - it is always existent, always demanded and therefore, always. It appears out of moments, magic, thoughts, provocation, mannerism, discipline, shapes, sizes, here+now, the list is absolutely infinite.

The effect -

This is a multitudinous result of the moment, the experience.

The factual overdrive, the unconscious engine, the present of the past and the future. It’s basically a phenomenon, when done in the best of all these contexts.

The balance -

The place between cause and effect, between the past and the future, YIN AND YANG.

This is basically created every moment, every moment is an opportunity for us to balance out the construct of our mind, or I’d like to say the construct of our construct - the design, in other words, every design that has ever come out.

An on-going, evolutionary process…