Design is a problem-solving, life-enhancing dicipline providing innovative solutions for systems, products, and services; contributing to manufacturers, consumers, users and environment.
Thus an idea for innovative solutions is needed and one can not produce an idea without an exact definition of the problem.
If you want to design a chair, you can produce an infinite number of solutions, but if you understand the problem that the chair, as a produc,t has resolved – which is the need of someone to sit – then one can come up with a more innovative solution.
In order to produce an innovative idea, there is the need for perspective, systematic, experiential work and, most importantly, a passion to discover something new.