Report on the 1st International Workshop on Designing Software (Designing 2024)

Software design is a set of activities and decisions involved in constructing a software system, ranging from high-level architecture and conceptual design to code design. Decisions made during the design process have a long-lasting impact on various qualities of a system, such as modularity, maintainability, scalability, robustness, security, usability, and performance. Despite its important role in software development, design is still considered something of an art-particularly in terms of design as an activity rather than design as a product or outcome. With the increasing societal impact of software and the potential use of AI in development, design has a new and larger role to play in the engineering of modern software systems. This new workshop aims to bring together researchers, practitioners, and educators who are interested in any aspect of software design, to discuss novel approaches to design, and to identify open challenges and future directions for the field.