I'm a designer, big MD fan, and I'm dying to see some decent design in OS desktop land. But I don't get it either. Design is all about understanding a problem/

I'm a designer, big MD fan, and I'm dying to see some decent design in OS desktop land. But I don't get it either. Design is all about understanding a problem/context and creating a solution to match it. MD is a great answer to a completely different problem than this project is solving.