design

Guide architecture design by applying a structured investigation-to-design workflow that synthesizes research, selects patterns, designs interfaces, models data, defines processing flows, and documents test strategies. This ensures requirement-driven architecture decisions are consistent and aligned across teams.

Requirement-driven architecture design is structured by defining implementation direction, interfaces, data structures, and test strategies. This approach aligns architecture decisions with project requirements and constraints, preventing brittle systems and ensuring consistent design governance.

Yes, you can generate a complete architecture design document after the investigation phase. The workflow supports collaborative design by transforming research synthesis into formal documentation covering interface design, data modeling, processing flows, and test strategy.

Data modeling and API design are explicit steps within the system design workflow. They follow research synthesis and architecture pattern selection, ensuring that data structures and interfaces match the defined requirements and processing flows before test strategy documentation.

Software architecture design often produces brittle systems because it lacks a repeatable design process that aligns requirements, interfaces, data models, and test strategies. Without structured guidance from investigation to documentation, teams make inconsistent design decisions that fail to match constraints.

Yes, an investigation report is needed before starting system design. The workflow applies to investigation-to-design processes, using research synthesis to drive architecture pattern selection, interface design, data modeling, processing flows, and test strategy documentation.