What is design?

After my first week of design classes in college, the main focus has been what is design? As i've learned design is a very tricky thing to explain let alone understand. Design has many levels and mediums of thought. The more i think about it the more I start to see it. Design is everywhere we look and everything we see. Design can be very simple but yet very complex. The backpacks on our backs, the shoes on our feet, the buildings we live in, the food we eat, the landscaping outside, like many many other things were all designed