Design Work

A lot of design work is done towards making a tangible art of fact, something that you can put in front of people and test. But what about the modelling of the under lying concepts that inform all these things? I feel like i'm asking the question. It sounds, to my own ears, a little abstract, so i'll try to make it concrete with an example. So if i'm interacting with the smart cylinder in my living room, we have a home pod here at home, i'm making requests of that thing that require my standing a certain conception of conceptual objects. Rite like i need to understand that it conceives of music as being contained in a structure of albums, artists