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.

Beginner15 min

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.

Intermediate20 min

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.

Intermediate25 min

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.

Intermediate20 min

Real-World Design Templates

Templates help you avoid blank-page syndrome. Reusable thinking models speed up reasoning in interviews and real work.

Beginner18 min

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.

Advanced30 min

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.

Intermediate25 min

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.

Intermediate20 min

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.

Beginner18 min

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