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Patterns 37 – 72

Volume 2 describes 36 design more design mistakes and product traps.

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List of patterns:

  1. Cobra Effect
  2. AI Oracle Effect
  3. Swiss Cheese Model
  4. Iceberg Model
  5. Kitchen Sink
  6. Murphy’s Law
  7. Breadcrumbs
  8. Red Herring
  9. Diderot Effect
  10. Streisand Effect
  11. Bus Factor
  12. Hofstadter’s Law
  13. Thinking Outside the Box
  14. Showstopper
  15. Gold Plating
  16. Brainstorming
  17. Boilerplate
  18. Data-Ink Ratio
  19. Throwing Spaghetti at the Wall
  20. Vibe Coding
  21. Winging It
  22. Bells and Whistles
  23. Hawthorne Effect
  24. Smoke and Mirrors
  25. Cutting Corners
  26. Analysis Paralysis
  27. IKEA Effect
  28. Walking on Eggshells
  29. Shooting from the Hip
  30. Low-Hanging Fruit
  31. Potemkin Village
  32. Don’t Yuck my Yum
  33. Here Be Dragons
  34. Banner Blindness
  35. Norman Doors
  36. ZEBRA
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