Lately, I've noticed people viewing design patterns as solutions to problems or situations.
A better view is to see them as a methodical way to decompose the problem statement.
Software design is the art of conquering complexity - nothing else. We start with huge, seemingly unaddressable problems and methodically break them down into a tree of subproblems, each treated as a unit.
Design patterns provide a framework for building that problem tree. They have nothing to do with the solution space.
Once you grasp design problems at a micro level, you'll see the same principles applied in architecture, organizational design, factory design, etc.
Everyone is trying to systematically break complex problems into smaller ones. See if you start spotting the same design patterns in non-coding contexts.
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