Design is often thought of as a tool for industry, to anticipate the needs of a composite humanity, and optimize technologic and material resources, with an aesthetic veneer that suggests choice, taste, and tribe, in order to sell as many units as possible. Alternatively, we might consider the choices that go into any act of creation, collection, or organization. 

Quantity is not the metric by which something is considered design, but it is via the landfills of mass production that we will be interpreted in the future. And yet, for most of us, the things that are important, or meaningful, are those items that are particular to us, whether that is a symbolic piece of jewelry, a childhood toy weathered with stories, a steadfast tool that might have been modified or repaired, or a token to memorialize a milestone.