Session 7 · Week 4 · Tue 24 Nov 2026 · 75 min

Live Group Design Session.

The whole framework, run live as a group: frame, estimate, design, defend under pushback.

Ehsan Gazar
From Senior to Staff · session 7 of 8
Where we're going · 90 minutes

The run sheet.

0–5The prompt & ruleshow we'll work
5–20Frame + estimaterequirements, non-goals, numbers
20–35Designcomponents, on the constraints
35–50DefendI push, you justify
50–60Capturedecisions → ADR statements
By the end of tonight

You'll be able to…

1Run the full loop together on one real prompt.
2Frame and estimate before drawing.
3Defend a trade-off under live pushback.
4Capture the decisions as ADR-ready statements.
How tonight works

We design it together, out loud.

One prompt, the whole room, sixty minutes. I'll play the skeptical reviewer and push on every trade-off. The goal isn't the diagram, it's the reasoning that survives the pushback, said in real time.

💡 In plain English

Tonight we cook one dish together. You make the calls, I taste-test and keep asking "why this, not that?" at every step. Practising under friendly pushback is how it becomes automatic when the pressure is real.

Frame before you draw
numbers and non-goals first
beat 1–2
Commit, then defend
name the trade and the "because"
beat 3–4
Capture as you go
every call becomes an ADR line
beat 5
The toolkit

What to have in your head.

1
Frame
functional + non-functional, non-goals stated
2
Estimate
the one bounding number
3
Design
components fall out of the constraints
4
Defend
name the axis, the position, the consequence
5
Evolve
what changes at 10×, and the trigger
6
Capture
decision + context + consequence = an ADR
Recap · then what's next

The loop, run live.

Frame → Estimate → Design → Defend → Evolve, as a group, under pushback. What survives the room is what goes in your Design Review Presentation on Thursday.

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Project 6 · Design Review Presentation
Thursday you present your own. Tonight is the rehearsal.
rehearsal for S12
Prep for Thursday
Turn tonight's captured decisions into your presentation skeleton.
do before S12