Answering the base question - everyone is a designer - a Hacker, a civilian, all. All persons I know of (where I am currently located) are hackers - whether th

Answering the base question - everyone is a designer - a Hacker, a civilian, all. All persons I know of (where I am currently located) are hackers - whether they know how to write computer code, or otherwise. The way I see it, 'hacking' is a means of getting around an existing system - Gandalf and the white-cloaks wrote the machine language of Middle Earth, as do the jay-walkers of New Delhi write the unwritten civilian traffic codes, in the presence of abstract rules. 'Design' too, is nothing more than creative problem-solving. Anyone is engaged in the act of 'designing' as much in figuring out the best way to tie shoelaces in record time - as figuring out user interaction in a computational setting. Just apply the art. And science. Together. A hundred years ago, they were called Architects - of building, because code did not exist, and building was the only code available. Cheers!