{"id":1076,"date":"2026-01-07T13:15:24","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T12:15:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/joeabyvassallo.com\/?p=1076"},"modified":"2026-01-20T15:49:58","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T14:49:58","slug":"design-is-a-system-not-a-visual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joeabyvassallo.com\/?p=1076","title":{"rendered":"Design Is a System, Not a Visual"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Design is the ultimate tool &#8211; and I don\u2019t mean visuals, but the system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My architecture training has embedded the design process as a default go-to. For a building, we assess the context, create using models and plans, test, review and repeat. Design in and of itself is a repeatable reasoning framework, not a domain-specific expertise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This system has also worked for me when I worked on brand identities, event planning and also other problem solving. I love using it mostly to overhaul operations using the same process: audit the existing situation, create structure through the use of diagrams and tables, test and review.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Design provides a system that outperforms impulsive decision making and provides a structured test-pad for intuition alongside more technical solutions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A note on design as a repeatable reasoning system that outperforms impulsive decision-making and applies far beyond visuals or craft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1077,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[33,58,36],"class_list":["post-1076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-notes","tag-design","tag-framework","tag-process"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/joeabyvassallo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/joeabyvassallo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/joeabyvassallo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joeabyvassallo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joeabyvassallo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1076"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/joeabyvassallo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1078,"href":"https:\/\/joeabyvassallo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1076\/revisions\/1078"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joeabyvassallo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/joeabyvassallo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joeabyvassallo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joeabyvassallo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}