Design vs. Develop — What's the Difference?

A design is a plan or specification for the construction of an object or system or for the implementation of an activity or process, or the result of that plan or specification in the form of a prototype, product or process. The verb to design expresses the process of developing a design.

Grow or cause to grow and become more mature, advanced, or elaborate

A plan or drawing produced to show the look and function or workings of a building, garment, or other object before it is made

Start to exist, experience, or possess

A decorative pattern

Treat (a photographic film) with chemicals to make a visible image

Purpose or planning that exists behind an action, fact, or object

Bring (a piece) into play from its initial position on a player's back rank

Decide upon the look and functioning of (a building, garment, or other object), by making a detailed drawing of it

To bring from latency to or toward fulfillment

To conceive or fashion in the mind; invent

To expand or enlarge

To formulate a plan for; devise

To aid in the growth of; strengthen

To make a graphic or schematic representation of (something), especially as a plan for its structure

To improve the quality of; refine

To create or contrive for a particular purpose or effect

To cause to become more complex or intricate; add detail and fullness to; elaborate

To have as a goal or purpose; intend

(Music) To elaborate (a theme) with rhythmic and harmonic variations.

To make or execute plans.

To bring into being gradually

To create designs.

To set forth or clarify by degrees

A drawing or sketch.

To come to have gradually; acquire

A graphic representation, especially a detailed plan for construction or manufacture.

To become affected with; contract

An ornamental pattern.

To influence the behavior of toward a specific end

The purposeful or inventive arrangement of parts or details

To cause (a tract of land or a building) to serve a particular purpose

A particular plan or method

To make available and effective to fulfill a particular end or need

The art or practice of designing or making designs

To convert or transform

A reasoned purpose; an intent

(Games) To move (a chess piece) to or toward a more strategic position.

Deliberate intention

To process (a photosensitive medium such as exposed film) in order to produce a photographic image.

Often designs A secretive or underhanded plot or scheme

To produce (a photographic image) by use of a photosensitive medium or by printing from a digital file.

A specification of an object or process, referring to requirements to be satisfied and thus conditions to be met for them to solve a problem.

To grow by degrees into a more advanced or mature state

A plan (with more or less detail) for the structure and functions of an artifact, building or system.

To increase or expand

A pattern, as an element of a work of art or architecture.

To improve; advance

The composition of a work of art.

To come gradually into existence or activity

Intention or plot.

To come gradually to light; be disclosed

(particularly) Malicious or malevolent intention.

To progress from earlier to later stages of a life cycle

The shape or appearance given to an object, especially one that is intended to make it more attractive.

To progress from earlier to later stages of evolution

The art of designing

To acquire secondary sex characteristics. Used especially of a girl.

(transitive) To plan and carry out (a picture, work of art, construction etc.).

To discover, find out; to uncover.

To plan (to do something).

(intransitive) To change with a specific direction, progress.

To assign, appoint (something to someone); to designate.

(ambitransitive) To progress through a sequence of stages.

To mark out and exhibit; to designate; to indicate; to show; to point out; to appoint.

(transitive) To advance; to further; to promote the growth of.

To manifest requirements to be satisfied by an object or process for them to solve a problem.

(transitive) To create.

To draw preliminary outline or main features of; to sketch for a pattern or model; to delineate; to trace out; to draw.

(transitive) To bring out images latent in photographic film.

To mark out and exhibit; to designate; to indicate; to show; to point out; to appoint.

(transitive) To acquire something usually over a period of time.

To create or produce, as a work of art; to form a plan or scheme of; to form in idea; to invent; to project; to lay out in the mind; as, a man designs an essay, a poem, a statue, or a cathedral.

To place one's pieces actively.

To intend or purpose; - usually with for before the remote object, but sometimes with to.

To cause a ball to become more open and available to be played on later. Usually by moving it away from the cushion, or by opening a pack.

To form a design or designs; to plan.

(math) To change the form of (an algebraic expression, etc.) by executing certain indicated operations without changing the value.

A preliminary sketch; an outline or pattern of the main features of something to be executed, as of a picture, a building, or a decoration; a delineation; a plan.

To free from that which infolds or envelops; to unfold; to lay open by degrees or in detail; to make visible or known; to disclose; to produce or give forth; as, to develop theories; a motor that develops 100 horse power.

A plan or scheme formed in the mind of something to be done; preliminary conception; idea intended to be expressed in a visible form or carried into action; intention; purpose; - often used in a bad sense for evil intention or purpose; scheme; plot.

To unfold gradually, as a flower from a bud; hence, to bring through a succession of states or stages, each of which is preparatory to the next; to form or expand by a process of growth; to cause to change gradually from an embryo, or a lower state, to a higher state or form of being; as, sunshine and rain develop the bud into a flower; to develop the mind.

Specifically, intention or purpose as revealed or inferred from the adaptation of means to an end; as, the argument from design.

To advance; to further; to prefect; to make to increase; to promote the growth of.

The realization of an inventive or decorative plan; esp., a work of decorative art considered as a new creation; conception or plan shown in completed work; as, this carved panel is a fine design, or of a fine design.

To change the form of, as of an algebraic expression, by executing certain indicated operations without changing the value.

The invention and conduct of the subject; the disposition of every part, and the general order of the whole.

To cause to become visible, as an invisible or latent image upon plate, by submitting it to chemical agents; to bring to view.

The act of working out the form of something (as by making a sketch or outline or plan);

To go through a process of natural evolution or growth, by successive changes from a less perfect to a more perfect or more highly organized state; to advance from a simpler form of existence to one more complex either in structure or function; as, a blossom develops from a bud; the seed develops into a plant; the embryo develops into a well-formed animal; the mind develops year by year.

An arrangement scheme;

To become apparent gradually; as, a picture on sensitive paper develops on the application of heat; the plans of the conspirators develop.

Something intended as a guide for making something else;

Make something new, such as a product or a mental or artistic creation;

A decorative or artistic work;

Work out;

An anticipated outcome that is intended or that guides your planned actions;

Gain through experience;

A preliminary sketch indicating the plan for something;

Come to have or undergo a change of (physical features and attributes);

The creation of something in the mind

Come into existence; take on form or shape;

Make or work out a plan for; devise;

Change the use of and make available or usable;

Design something for a specific role or purpose or effect;

Elaborate, as of theories and hypotheses;

Create the design for; create or execute in an artistic or highly skilled manner;

Create by training and teaching;

Make a design of; plan out in systematic, often graphic form;

Be gradually disclosed or unfolded; become manifest;

Create designs;

Grow, progress, unfold, or evolve through a process of evolution, natural growth, differentiation, or a conducive environment;

Conceive or fashion in the mind; invent;

Become technologically advanced;

Intend or have as a purpose;

Cause to grow and differentiate in ways conforming to its natural development;

Generate gradually;

Grow emotionally or mature;

Make visible by means of chemical solutions;

Superimpose a three-dimensional surface on a plane without stretching, in geometry

Move one's pieces into strategically more advantageous positions;

Move into a strategically more advantageous position;

Elaborate by the unfolding of a musical idea and by the working out of the rhythmic and harmonic changes in the theme;

Happen;

Expand in the form of a series;