Design is playing with the box you're supposed to think in. Hit it hard enough and you'll get a concussion, but maybe a satisfying final product as well at the end.

But,

"What tools to bash with?"

"Which parts are the most vulnerable?"

"Why am I hitting a box?"

will inevitably come up in every process of creation.

Sometimes it's something important, like brand positioning and audience analysis; other times it's convex hull algorithms to create a picture grid next to some text written in the style of a crumbling forest fire.

But that just makes it so much more fun

Thus, I like design — for the chaos of course — because controlled chaos is more powerful than order.