designed

adj 1: planned or created in an artistic or skilled manner; "a

beautifully designed dress"; "some Italian designed

sandals have cushioning"

2: done or made or performed with purpose and intent;

"style...is more than the deliberate and designed

creation"- Havelock Ellis; "games designed for all ages";

"well-designed houses" [syn: {intentional}] [ant: {undesigned}]

3: carefully practiced or designed or premeditated; "a studied

reply" [syn: {designed(a)}, {studied(a)}]

4: organized so as to give configuration to; "a magnet is

surrounded by a configured field"; "a vehicle designed for

rough terrain" [syn: {configured}]

design

The approach that engineering (and some other)

disciplines use to specify how to create or do something. A

successful design must satisfies a (perhaps informal)

{functional specification} (do what it was designed to do);

conforms to the limitations of the target medium (it is

possible to implement); meets implicit or explicit

requirements on performance and resource usage (it is

efficient enough).

A design may also have to satisfy restrictions on the design

process itself, such as its length or cost, or the tools

available for doing the design.

In the {software life-cycle}, design follows {requirements

analysis} and is followed by implementation.

["Object-Oriented Analysis and Design with Applications", 2nd

ed., Grady Booch].

(1996-12-08)