I think your stumbling there logically a bit. 0_o Graphic designers also use the word design, so do fashion designers and so on, but similarly to architects a

I think your stumbling there logically a bit. 0_o Graphic designers also use the word design, so do fashion designers and so on, but similarly to architects and engineers they also use the word design to denote the overarching scheme of their entire project, not just the aesthetic aspect of it (as these programmers I am referring to do). Typographers had a lot of other technical factors to worry about in their design apart from just the visual appeal and clarity, similarly fashion designers must design their clothes to accomodate a certain 3d shape and withstand all sorts of structural stresses and deformations. You're reaching. And the only thing sillier than us arguing about this is you being upset that someone is using the word design as it appears in the dictionary: 1. a plan or drawing produced to show the look and function or workings of a building, garment, or other object before it is built or made 2. an arrangement of lines or shapes created to form a pattern or decoration The article is about the very real problem with the confusion between hard real-time vs soft real-time systems, which is about the suitability of a tool to a set of requirements. Your complaint about the word design doesn't seem to apply.