The Ohio State University Department of Design is dedicated to purposeful, systematic, and creative activity. Designers give form to products, spaces,and messages. Their designs involve the analysis of problems; the transformation of findings into solutions; and the expertise to devise compelling visual forms and to advance applications of new technologies in our lives.
We define design as a purposeful, systematics and creative activity. The process is purposeful — designers give form to products, spaces and messages, and satisfy the functional, psychological and aesthetic needs of users.
{Paul Nini, Professor, Design}