Design is a culturally-dependent problem-solving activity and as such is unconcerned with decoration, be it "beautiful", "pretty" or "ugly", these are interpretations of a final result.
In its broadest and most ambitious goal, the academic discipline of remembering, of learning and knowing, of experiencing events of reality consciously, non-consciously and unconsciously, of reasoning and problem-solving, of dreaming, and a host of other physiological activities that we associate with the University of California at Berkeley offers an undergraduate degree-granting major in— Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
Ideal candidate should have strong math and problem-solving skills.— Programmers Heaven latest news
In Experiment 1, all subjects received success feedback after their initial problem-solving attempts, thus creating one condition in which the success appeared to be accidental (noncontingent on performance) and one in which the success appeared to be contingent on appropriate knowledge.— CiteULike: Everyone's library
Inbound Signaling, or searching Twitter for conversation threads about a particular company or product, and then using that information for problem-solving and feedback.— eWeek - RSS Feeds

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