What are the Types of Design?

Design is everywhere: the phone in your pocket, the chair you are sitting on, the websites you visit daily with the help of this world and many more. But how then can the word ‘design’ be defined and what are the various types of design? Have you ever asked questions about the world behind the things you use and see? If not, this article shall provide you with the answers you didn’t yet seek.

What is design? 

Design is essentially the practice of construction of usable solutions which are at the same time aesthetically pleasing. Design is the solution to a problem as well as the question to make life better and beautiful: that is whether in the form of an app interface, logo, or on a building.

What Do You Need to Know About Types of Design?

The understanding of the types of design can help people, students, professionals, or any other interested individual to learn about the roles and the skills that are required to design the world people live in. It can also advise your career choices in case you are planning to join design. 

Types of Design

1. Graphic Design

• Focus: Imagery.
• Examples: business cards, logos, book covers, posters.
• Scope: To convey messages using images, typography and layouts.
• The colours used in graphics and fonts and shapes are used to attract your attention and present information in a legible way.

2. Product Design

• Focus: Designing all types of products.
• Examples: smartphones, kitchen appliances, furniture, decor, etc.
• Purpose: Producing new products that are worthwhile, appealing, and intuitive.
• Product designers hear the voices of users and enhance the attributes of products to share the experience.

3. Web and UI/UX Design

• Focus: Online life.
• Examples: Web sites, applications, dashboards. 
• Mission: To simplify digital products and make them attractive.
• UI (User Interface): As regards the appearance: buttons, icons and displays.
• UX (User Experience): Makes the product effortless and pleasurable to utilize.

4. Interior Design

• Focus: Indoor spaces.
• Examples: Residences, workplaces, hotels. 
• Objective: To design comfortable, functional, and beautiful surroundings.
• Interior designers use space, lights, colours, and furniture to create inspirational interiors.

5.Fashion Design

• Focus: Fabric clothing, accessories.
• Examples: Clothes, jewels, purse, shoes.
• Purpose: To fuse fashion, comfort, and trends on wearable art.

6. Industrial Design

• Target: Mass-marketed products.
• Examples: vehicles, home appliances, electronics.
• Purpose: To be both efficient as well as cost effective and aesthetically appealing.
• Industrial designers make it so that mass-produced commodities are safe to use and can be manufactured in large quantities.

7. Motion Graphic Design

• Focus: Image visualisations.
• Examples: Titles of movies, animated videos, explainer videos.
• Use: To bring illustrations to life and to clarify concepts with movement.

8. Architectural Design

• Focus: Design the architecture 
• Target: Buildings and constructions.
• Examples: Houses, schools, shopping centers.
• Purpose: To unify purpose, safety and the art of our built environment.

New Types of Design

There are new forms of design that are becoming more significant as technology advances:

• Game Design: The design of the engaging game to mobiles, consoles, and computers.
• Service Design: To make services (banks, hospitals) more user friendly.
• Environmental Design: To design the environment including the indoors, outdoors, and other spaces. 
• AI-powered Design: Designing something like an ad, videos, graphics, etc with AI to make it more impactfully creative. 

Design touches our lives in ways we often do not recognize, whether in the design of simple items, or grand spaces. Knowing its forms assists us in knowing the ingenuity and work that went into the things we are using and makes us act as designers in our lives.

Whether your aim is to make a career or just be up-to-date, awareness of various kinds of design is step one. Keep your eyes open, you never know where the next awesome design idea will come.  

If you thought this was useful, recommend it to someone interested in learning about design. More creative minds are required in differential!