Basically yes. Sets are designed to be drafted. That isn't to say that they don't also design individual cards with constructed play in mind, but the overall set as a whole is designed for its limited environment. Some people love drafting, some hate it, but I highly recommend you try it out once or twice to find out for yourself. I like drafting a lot because you always get something different every time.
I will also say that drafting asks you to exercise some very different skills than Commander, so don't feel bad if you feel overwhelmed the first time. Building a deck on the fly is tough! If you're not already familiar with whatever set you're drafting, you should look over the cards in the set ahead of time to give yourself a decent idea of what you can expect to see in the packs. Generally you're going to be drafting a two color deck, and each color pair will have what's called a "signpost" -- an uncommon card for each color pair that generally tells you what those colors are trying to do in that set. For example, in the latest set that just launched over the weekend, you can look at
Jolene, Plundering Pugilist to see that creatures with power 4 or greater is a theme for R/G. You don't have to do exactly what the signpost says, but it's a helpful thing to be on the lookout for.
The other big piece of advice for drafting is to find the open lane -- in other words, pay attention not only to the cards that are in the packs you get passed, but also what colors aren't there. Are you on your sixth pick and noticed you haven't seen any red cards? That's a signal that at least one person to your right is drafting red, so that's not open to you. Did you notice you're being passed a lot of blue cards? Then the players around you probably aren't interested in blue, so it's open for you. Like I said above, it can be hard to read those kinds of signals sometimes, so don't get discouraged if you're not sure what to do at some point. One very important thing to pay attention to is the ninth pick of your first pack. That'll be the time when the pack that you opened makes its way back to you (assuming a normal eight person draft pod), which is called "wheeling". If there's a strong card in there that no one else took, chances are that color (or color pair) is open and you can start trying to draft it more heavily.
If you're interested, I can write up a bigger post about how I like to approach drafting. I mostly play limited these days so it's something I think about a lot!
Speaking of limited, my girlfriend and I went to the OTJ prerelease on Friday night because we both thought that it looked mechanically interesting even if we didn't care for the flavor. I ended up doing a clean sweep and going 4-0 without dropping a single game. That was a first for me and it felt great! I'm looking forward to drafting this one a bunch once it's live on Arena.