Is there still a place for Design in Science?

What do we expect when we talk of design in Science? Is it about improving the way labware is made ? Is it possible to improve upon its design?
As of today, most labware already seems to have reached its most functional shape.

Is Design only about the way something looks, or also finding another way to do research?

Let's pick glassware as an example, all of it seems finalised, no new ways to design glass probe tubes, erlenmeyer´s flask, beaker,  or distillation columns... these are already the best shape for what we expect from them.

Is it that  innovation can only be present where technological breakthroughs happen?

Let's pick evolution of distilation columns: Initially it came from a simple boiling/evaporating/condensing system, developed to some more evolved ones where the glassware is calibrated to have enough distillation steps to be able to obtain more and more pre final product.
This is probably the most obvious example where Science and the wanted result shaped the design of the glassware.