# The Aesthetics of Design Chapter 2 **Opening (not a real abstract):** We now have one piece of the puzzle in hand: a working definition of design as a phenomenon with sufficient particular characteristics to suggest that it merits separate aesthetic treatment. Because design can be distinguished in important regards from art and craft, and because it bears litt le relation to natural phenomena, I will argue that it is experienced or appreciated in a correspondingly unique way. But knowing what design is gets us only so far: there are good and bad designs just as there are excellent and awful works of art, beautiful and ugly things, and even pleasurable and painful experiences. We now need to turn to the question of our interaction with design, and what makes this interaction specifically aesthetic. This question takes us to the heart of philosophical aesthetics at its most complex. **Authors:** [[Jane Forsey 2012]]