In art, "a drawing, especially an outline," 1630s. The artistic sense was taken into French as dessin from Italian disegno, from disegnare "to mark out," from Latin designare "mark out, devise, choose, designate, appoint" (which is also ultimately the source of the English verb), from de "out" (see de-) + signare "to mark," from signum "identifying mark, sign" (see sign (n.)).

Die Funktionalität bezeichnet den Grad der Zielgerichtetheit eines Produkts, „funktional“ zu sein, das heißt, für einen bestimmten Anwendungszweck, dem Produktverwender Funktionen mit festgelegten Eigenschaften nutzbringend bereitzustellen.

“Fear isn't so difficult to understand. After all, weren't we all frightened as children? Nothing has changed since Little Red Riding Hood faced the big bad wolf. What frightens us today is exactly the same sort of thing that frightened us yesterday. It's just a different wolf. This fright complex is rooted in every individual.” - Alfred Hitchcock