"Design is the art of arranging constraints.
Eames uses the word arranging on purpose. Constraints are not what block the work; they are what give the work shape, and design is the act of choosing which limits are real and which ones are negotiable. If you refuse to choose, the system chooses for you later.
In a design review, this shows up as latency versus correctness, autonomy versus consistency, or shipping now versus maintaining later. When the constraint choice stays implicit, people argue past each other and the system pays in rework. The meeting produces alignment on words, not on costs.
Arrange the constraints explicitly: name the win you are buying, and name the cost you accept. A clear tradeoff stays readable when pressure rises, and it gives future reviewers something to honor or deliberately change.