Design Patterns for Software Diagramming

Understanding the software you are working on is crucial to successful software. To understand, you and your team must transfer knowledge to each other. Diagrams are key to this knowledge transfer, but effective diagraming is a skill you traditionally don't get taught. So how do you create effective diagrams and visuals?

Design patterns can be applied to your diagrams to guide you towards the goal of successful communication, and towards maximum inclusion for your audience.

The purpose of a diagram is to successfully communicate with the audience, which sounds deceptively simple. The communication design patterns you learn in this session will enable you to improve your diagramming: one of the most important methods of communication in software development.

In this session, you will discover a range of patterns and antipatterns you can apply to your work as soon as you get back to your desk.