Design Challenges
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- DesignIntermediateNew
Design and Run a Platform-as-Product Quarterly Review
Using the platform product catalog (platform-product-catalog) and the Head of Platform's mandate (head-of-platform-brief), design a complete, repeatable quarterly review for the…
- Platform Engineering
- Platform As Product
- Facilitation
Open coursework - DesignSeniorNew
Designing a Market-Making Strategy for a New ETF
You are a quantitative analyst at Nova Capital. The new ETF (ticker: AIRO) will track 30 AI and robotics stocks with daily rebalancing. The initial AUM is $200 million. Your tas…
- Market Microstructure
- Etf Arbitrage
- Risk Management
Open coursework - DesignSeniorNew
Design a Strongly-Consistent Distributed Counter for API Quotas
Using the requirements brief ('quotaguard-requirements-brief'), the workload-and-cost reference sheet ('quotaguard-workload-cost-sheet'), and the failure-scenario worksheet ('qu…
- Distributed Databases
- Consensus
- Strong Consistency
Open coursework - DesignBeginnerNew
Design a Sustainable Governance Model for a Burnt-Out Open-Source Project
Working only from the provided materials — the Project Health Snapshot (m1), the issue-and-contribution activity log (m2), the anonymized community chat excerpts (m3), and the f…
- Governance Models
- Maintainership
- Issue Triage
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- DesignBeginnerNew
Establish IT Governance for a Hyper-Growth Consultancy
Analyze 18 months of SaaS expense data and the failed client-audit report to identify the top 5 governance gaps. Design a framework covering: SaaS procurement (who approves what…
- It Governance
- Saas Management
- Access Management
Open coursework - DesignIntermediateNew
Sustainable Packaging for a D2C Cosmetics Brand
You are a design thinking consultant for Glowly. Your task is to research customer attitudes toward sustainable packaging, brainstorm packaging alternatives, create prototypes (…
- Sustainable Design
- Packaging Engineering
- User Research
Open coursework - DesignIntermediateNew
Resolve the Quota Double-Spend: Design Meterly's Order-Provisioning Schema
Working only from the materials provided, reach and defend a database design. Read the de-identified incident record (incident-file) and the business-rules brief (requirements-b…
- Transactions
- Acid
- Isolation Levels
Open coursework - DesignIntermediateNew
Design a Kanban Flow System for a Platform Team
Map the platform team's current workflow (intake to deploy) and design a Kanban board with 5-7 columns, explicit WIP limits per column, and a class-of-service swimlane for emerg…
- Kanban
- Flow Metrics
- Process Design
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Plan and measure campaigns that grow the business. Funnel analytics, attribution, segmentation, and the rigorous measurement that lets marketing defend its budget at the leadership table.
- DesignIntermediateNew
Design a SLSA-Aligned, Signed Release Pipeline for an Apache Project
Working only from the materials provided—the project dossier, the current release-pipeline module, the SLSA v1.0 specification, the slsa-github-generator project, the Sigstore d…
- Supply Chain
- Slsa
- Sigstore
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 - DesignBeginnerNew
Build an Attention-Visualization Tool for Translation Quality Audit
You will load a small open-source EN-FR transformer (e.g., Helsinki-NLP Opus-MT-en-fr), build a Streamlit or Gradio demo that lets the user paste English source, see the French …
- Attention Mechanisms
- Neural Mt
- Tool Design
Open coursework - DesignFoundationalNew
Stakeholder Workshop on AI Risk for a Public-Sector Pilot
You receive a description of the pilot (24/7 LLM chatbot answering questions on municipal services in Spanish and Catalan). Design a 3-hour workshop for around 25 mixed-stakehol…
- Stakeholder Engagement
- Workshop Design
- Responsible Ai
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- DesignBeginnerNew
Build a PlatformIO CI Pipeline for a Multi-Board Firmware Team
Use GitHub Actions + PlatformIO. Build matrix across the 6 boards. Run native unit tests + QEMU-based emulation tests for boards that QEMU supports. Set up a self-hosted runner …
- Platformio
- Github Actions
- Embedded Ci
Open coursework - DesignBeginnerNew
Add Constant Folding and Dead Code Elimination to a Teaching Compiler
Using the provided intermediate-representation specification, design and propose constant folding and dead code elimination as two intermediate-representation-to-intermediate-re…
- Intermediate Representation
- Constant Folding
- Dead Code Elimination
Open coursework - DesignBeginnerNew
Design an Android Shopping App for GlowLagos Cosmetics
Design and prototype an Android shopping app for GlowLagos using the provided brand kit (GlowLagos Brand & Content Kit) and the provided sample product catalog (GlowLagos Sample…
- Android Design
- Ui Ux
- Figma
Open coursework - 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
Open coursework - DesignIntermediateNew
Design a Crisis Information-Flow Analysis for a Newsroom
Using the sampled propagation log and the editorial brief in the provided materials, design and partially demonstrate an analysis that reconstructs the alert's 72-hour spread as…
- Computational Journalism
- Temporal Networks
- Network Science
Open coursework - DesignSeniorNew
Re-Architect a Stockholm Cloud Provider's Network for AI Training
Working only from the materials provided — the current three-tier network description (CURRENT-NET), the four-week sampled-flow traffic summary (SFLOW-SUMMARY), the new-rack req…
- Data Center Networking
- Bgp
- Evpn Vxlan
Open coursework - DesignIntermediateNew
Design a Voice-First Picking Model for a Warehouse Tablet App
Using the partner-warehouse case file and the touch-app interaction inventory, map the current picking workflow and select the eight highest-frequency interactions to move to vo…
- Interaction Design
- Voice Ui Design
- Contextual Inquiry
Open coursework - DesignIntermediateNew
Threat-Model and Hardening Proposal for a Whistleblower Intake
Using the current-stack dossier and the CTO mandate brief, build a threat model of the existing intake using the LINDDUN privacy-threat framework (linkability, identifiability, …
- Anonymous Communication
- Threat Modeling
- Tor
Open coursework - DesignIntermediateNew
Score Compliance Risk for an Enterprise AI Rollout Pipeline
You will design a compliance-risk scoring methodology covering 8 attributes (data residency, model provider, retention policy, PII handling, audit trail, encryption, third-party…
- Risk Scoring
- Compliance Modeling
- Decision Support Systems
Open coursework - DesignIntermediateNew
Design an Idiomatic REST + Webhooks API for a Logistics SaaS
Read the team's draft + the public APIs of 3 reference logistics platforms (anonymized, briefing pack provided). Author a 5-page API design guideline covering URL structure (nou…
- API Design
- REST
- Openapi
Software Design and Design Patterns - DesignIntermediateNew
Rate and Reduce Technical Debt in a Telecom OSS Codebase
Design a SQALE-based technical-debt rating and improvement proposal for Lumera Telekom's OSS. Using only the static-analysis findings export, the module inventory and rating gri…
- Sqale Method
- Technical Debt
- Code Quality
Open coursework - DesignBeginnerNew
Design a Hybrid Work Model for a Bangalore D2C Cosmetics Startup
Your task is to develop a hybrid work model for the startup. Analyze the current remote work challenges, propose a structured hybrid schedule (e.g., fixed office days, core coll…
- Hybrid Work Design
- Remote Team Management
- Organizational Culture
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