《Design-Driven Innovation，設計力創新》Chapter 1 Design and Meaning
Klaus Krippendorff, Design Issues, 1989
The etymology of ‘design’ goes back to the Latin ‘de’ + ‘signare’ and means making something, distinguishing it by a sign, giving it significance, designating its relation to other things, owners, users or gods.
Based on this original meaning, one could say: design is making sense (of things).設計 (design) 的詞源可以追溯到拉丁文的 de 和 signare，意思是製造某個東西，並以符號讓他與眾不同，給予它意義，並界定這個東西與其他東西、擁有者、使用者或神祇的關係。
根據這個原意，我們可以說，設計是賦予 (事物) 意義。
