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The authority of science actually isn’t questioned. There’s no one who (well, as far as I know) there are not very many people who are saying the world is run by a load of wizards who just wave magic wands and things happen, right. There is a sort of collective agreement that there is a form of reality that we can understand systematically. I think the question really isn’t about trust in science, but trust in the people who do science.

A quote from Helen Czerski, physicist at University College London, speaking on The Vanishing Mr. Feynman Freakonomics episode (at about 29min 30sec).

Firstly, I love this definition of science. Secondly, I keep thinking about how scientific the design world is/isn’t.

What might some proper scientific process like rigour do to design outputs? I bet a lot of folk would say it’s not possible or that it would kill the creative process, but a niggle in me is thinking we need to go harder on hypotheses up front, and reflecting more honestly on directly related outcomes at the end.

Designers are not and should not act like wizards.