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I think this is a fairly limited view of design, that's commonality in branding and somewhat layout.

Real design would be changing how beds, showers, toilets, keys, etc etc work.

Yes there is familiarity in the truly banal, but progress in design happens when we really question how things work.



>Real design would be changing how beds, showers, toilets, keys, etc etc work.

That's [design] engineering.

Rather than aesthetics/ergonomics. Like writing your own widgets in JS, generally a bad idea.




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