Design
- A plan or drawing produced to show how something will look, function or be structured before it is made.
- A decorative pattern (This meaning does not apply in the software engineering domain).
- The activity of creating a design.
In software product development, we distinguish between creative design which determines the functions as well as the look and feel of the product, and technical design (also called software design) which determines the inner structure of the product, in particular the software architecture.