Design Thinking
Design Thinking for Software Engineers
Learn how to think, design, and reason about systems like a senior engineer. Master design thinking fundamentals, problem-solving frameworks, trade-off thinking, and architecture patterns that keep systems adaptable and scalable.
What Is Design Thinking in Software Engineering?
Learn how design thinking transforms unclear product requirements into practical, reliable, and scalable system architectures. Master the skill that differentiates junior engineers from senior ones.
Structured Problem-Solving Framework: The 7-Step Approach
Master the 7-step design framework that FAANG engineers use in real design reviews. Learn to clarify requirements, identify constraints, sketch architecture, and evaluate trade-offs systematically.
Trade-Off Thinking: The Heart of Design Thinking
Great engineers don't pick technologies—they pick trade-offs. Learn how to justify architectural choices like Redis, Kafka, MongoDB, or MySQL with measurable reasoning.
Architecture Thinking: Decomposing Problems into Components
Learn how to break down vague product problems into API flows, storage layers, caching layers, queue pipelines, and background workers. This skill differentiates junior engineers from senior ones.
Real-World Design Templates
Templates help you avoid blank-page syndrome. Reusable thinking models speed up reasoning in interviews and real work.
Case Studies in Design Thinking
Learn from real-world systems: Instagram's sharded MySQL, WhatsApp's Erlang architecture, Uber's dynamic pricing, Slack's WebSocket management, and Netflix's microservices migration.
High-Level Architecture Patterns
Learn the big patterns you'll repeatedly use in real products and interviews: event-driven architecture, layered architecture, CQRS, microservices, real-time systems, and batch-processing systems.
Anti-Patterns & What Not To Do
Knowing what not to do improves your design instincts faster. Learn to avoid over-engineering, under-engineering, premature optimization, and other common mistakes.
Communication & Interview Strategy
Design thinking is useless unless you communicate it well. Learn how to speak clearly, structure thoughts, and demonstrate senior-level confidence in system design interviews.
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