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Unless you are a professional designer who has remained current in your respective field, you may not be familiar with what many of today’s designers know as the “Four Orders of Design”, as developed by Professor Richard Buchanan and extensively written about in his book of the same name released in 1999. However, if you are wondering what these orders are and how technology has impacted them, you will see that much of what he says has become standard in almost any niche in the design industry. Let’s take a closer look at those four orders and then a brief look at how technology has impacted them.