Personally, I define design as the balance of form and function - favoring one leads to a suboptimal end result. All form and no function? Pretty and useless. All function and no form? Useful, but nobody wants to use it.
Right now form is fashionable, but that doesn't mean we should pine for the days when form was barely valued or throw functionality out the window. We should always strive for that balance.
Personally, I define design as the balance of form and function - favoring one leads to a suboptimal end result. All form and no function? Pretty and useless. All function and no form? Useful, but nobody wants to use it.
Right now form is fashionable, but that doesn't mean we should pine for the days when form was barely valued or throw functionality out the window. We should always strive for that balance.