Question: What do the following four things all have in common?

1) The mouse nestled under your hand

2) Your customer relationship management (CRM) software

3) The construction of the desk in front of you

4) Your last medical procedure

Answer: Someone somewhere spent a significant amount of time designing its shape, application, construction and process. Each of the above functions better than its equivalent did several years ago. The mouse you use today is much improved over the mouse you used five years ago, as is your software, ergonomically friendly furniture and doctor’s visit. In fact, every thing and every service under the sun continues to improve in design because in the mind of the designer, the best can still be better.

If you don’t think of yourself as a designer, think again. If you’ve ever purposely bent, modified, drilled, shaped, sketched, fabricated, molded, installed, configured, programmed or re-arranged, you are a designer.

So if it ain’t broke, break it, and put it back together better than it was before, because he who has the best design, wins.