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- DesignBeginnerNew
Redesign Stadig's Onboarding to Stop the Screen-3 Drop-off
Using the current four-screen flow described in the onboarding flow specification and the funnel numbers in the onboarding analytics dataset, run a heuristic evaluation of the e…
- User Centered Design
- Usability Testing
- Heuristic Evaluation
Open coursework - DesignBeginnerNew
Design EcoRide+, a Smart Subscription Service for Tokyo Micro-Mobility
Design the EcoRide+ premium subscription service and present it as a complete proposal the founding team can act on. Ground every decision in the materials you are given: the Ec…
- Service Design
- Customer Journey Mapping
- Service Blueprint
Open coursework - DesignIntermediateNew
Build a Feature Store for a Fintech Fraud Team
You will design a feature-store layer covering 12 representative fraud features (account-level, merchant-level, transaction-level), with both batch (Spark) and online (low-laten…
- Feature Stores
- Data Pipelines
- Spark
Machine Learning at Scale - DesignIntermediateNew
FMEA for SaaS Platform Migration at a 40-Person Scale-Up
You are provided with a system architecture overview and a list of potential failure modes from the engineering team. Your task is to complete an FMEA worksheet: identify failur…
- Fmea
- Risk Assessment
- Mitigation Strategy
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- DesignSeniorNew
Design a Multi-Objective Dynamic Pricing Engine for CityRide
Acting as a data scientist on CityRide's pricing team, design and prototype a dynamic pricing engine that, given the live time, pickup zone, and supply-demand conditions, quotes…
- Reinforcement Learning
- Optimization
- Simulation
Open coursework - DesignIntermediateNew
Redesign DataFlow's Architecture for Enterprise Sales
Working only from the materials provided (the engineering dossier, the current-system technical specification, the enterprise prospect requirements brief, and the reliability an…
- Microservices
- Multi Tenancy
- Cloud Architecture
Open coursework - DesignBeginnerNew
Design a Lean ITIL Service Desk for a Cosmetics Startup
Using the support operations snapshot (support-ops-snapshot), the twelve-month ticket log (support-ticket-log), and the executive mandate (ceo-mandate-and-budget), and drawing o…
- Itil
- Service Desk
- Incident Management
Open coursework - DesignSeniorNew
Design a Fair-Pricing Auction for a Renewable Energy Certificate Marketplace
Using the GreenCert market context brief and the European certificate-system reference for the regulatory and product backdrop, design an auction that clears trades in this cert…
- Auction Theory
- Mechanism Design
- Market Design
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- DesignSeniorNew
Provably Fair Approximation Algorithm for a Neobank On-Call Roster
Using the roster problem specification (roster-problem-spec), formalize the weekly on-call assignment as a constrained multi-week optimization problem, prove it is NP-hard by re…
- Approximation Algorithms
- Linear Programming
- Np Completeness
Open coursework - DesignBeginnerNew
Redesigning Onboarding for a B2B SaaS Scale-Up
You are a design thinking consultant hired by Flowly. Your task is to conduct user research with enterprise prospects (use personas provided), ideate a new onboarding flow, prot…
- User Research
- Ideation
- Prototyping
Design Thinking and Innovation - DesignBeginnerNew
Validate a Signed Construction-Permits Requirements Document
Using the requirements excerpt (req-doc-excerpt), the anonymized permits dataset (permits-dataset), and the intake notes from the first case-handler session (intake-notes), conv…
- Requirements Validation
- Executable Scenarios
- Gherkin
Open coursework - DesignBeginnerNew
Design a Lexer and Parser for a Customer Query Language
Using the grammar sketch, the query corpus sample, the Abstract Syntax Tree schema, and the edge-case suite provided to you, write a design proposal for a new lexer and parser t…
- Lexing
- Recursive Descent Parsing
- Abstract Syntax Trees
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- DesignIntermediateNew
Replace Nightly Batch Loads with Near-Real-Time Reporting at a Pump Manufacturer
Using the system inventory in the provided case-file, classify all nine source systems by the most appropriate way to capture their changes: log-based change data capture where …
- Change Data Capture
- Kafka
- Debezium
Open coursework - DesignIntermediateNew
Design a Zero-Downtime Multi-Region PostgreSQL Migration for an EdTech Platform
Using the infrastructure inventory (infra-inventory), the database schema sample (schema-subset), the workload metrics (workload-metrics), and the service-level brief (sla-brief…
- Blue Green Deployment
- Logical Replication
- Postgresql
Open coursework - DesignBeginnerNew
Detect Sensor Drift for a Field Inspection Robot Fleet
You receive 60 days of telemetry from 12 robots, including IMU readings, camera exposure stats, and the inspection-quality scores produced downstream. Define drift signals (roll…
- Anomaly Detection
- Change Point Detection
- Sensor Fusion
Open coursework - DesignSeniorNew
Design a Raft Consensus Layer for Multi-Region Active-Active Replication
Using the engineering brief, the production fault profile, and the starter Go module declared in the provided materials, design and build a Raft-based consensus layer and prove …
- Distributed Consensus
- Raft
- Fault Tolerance
Open coursework - DesignBeginnerNew
Optimizing Inventory for a São Paulo D2C Cosmetics Brand
You are given a CSV file with raw sales, inventory, and supplier data. Your task is to design an E/R diagram, create the normalized relational schema in 3NF, populate it with sa…
- SQL
- Database Design
- Normalization
Open coursework - DesignIntermediateNew
Security Policy Overhaul for a 40-Person SaaS Scale-Up
You are the new IT security manager. Review current policies (provided in a brief), identify gaps against SOC 2 trust service criteria, and produce a new set of 5 core policies …
- Security Policy Development
- Soc 2 Compliance
- Vendor Risk Management
Open coursework - DesignBeginnerNew
Design a Real-Time 3D Bag Configurator for Milan Brand
Produce a design proposal for an in-browser 3D bag configurator and justify every major decision against the materials provided. Use the reference 3D bag model (a real public gl…
- Webgl
- 3d Rendering
- Shading And Lighting
Open coursework - DesignIntermediateNew
Counterfactual Explanations for an Insurance Pricing Model
You receive a trained LightGBM regression model (premium in GBP), the feature schema (28 features, 14 mutable from the customer's side), and 500 sample quotes. Use DiCE (Diverse…
- Counterfactual Explanations
- Dice Ml
- Interpretability
Open coursework - DesignSeniorNew
Build an Edge MLOps Pipeline for a Smart-Agriculture Sensor
You receive a fleet simulator (1,000 simulated sensors with bandwidth + battery profiles), a model registry stub, and the current firmware's model-loading interface. Design and …
- Edge Mlops
- Ota Updates
- Model Versioning
Open coursework - DesignBeginnerNew
Draft a Model Card for a Generative Image Product
You receive the model's training-data summary, evaluation metrics, intended-use statement, and known failure modes from the ML team. Write: (a) a 3-page plain-language model car…
- Model Cards
- Transparency Documentation
- Responsible Ai
AI Ethics, Fairness, and Responsible AI - DesignIntermediateNew
Design a Real-Time Order Pipeline for a Fintech Payments Platform
You receive a synthetic Kafka stream of around 500 transactions per second, a static merchant dimension table (about 80,000 rows), and a daily FX rate snapshot. Design an end-to…
- Streaming Data
- Kafka
- Stream Processing
Data Engineering and Big Data Systems - DesignBeginnerNew
Lean Transformation for a Boston D2C Cosmetics Startup
Your task is to develop a comprehensive lean transformation plan for GlowUp Naturals' new in-house production facility. You must propose a cellular layout, implement kanban for …
- Lean Manufacturing
- Production Layout Design
- Kanban
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