https://www.rik-kisnah.ai/tags/diagrams/Recent content in Diagrams on Rik Kisnah - BlogHugoenSat, 10 Oct 2026 09:00:00 -0700https://www.rik-kisnah.ai/posts/system-design-diagrams-for-interviews/Sat, 10 Oct 2026 09:00:00 -0700https://www.rik-kisnah.ai/posts/system-design-diagrams-for-interviews/The board habits that work for every system design question, and a short tutorial for the three tools I actually use: Excalidraw (my favourite), Google Docs with a Drawing (what many companies hand you), and plain ASCII (when all you get is a text editor). The same URL shortener, drawn three ways.https://www.rik-kisnah.ai/teach/systems/drawing-the-board/Tue, 10 May 2016 09:00:00 -0700https://www.rik-kisnah.ai/teach/systems/drawing-the-board/How to lay out a system design board so the interviewer can follow you. Words on the left, layers on the right, numbered arrows for the request path, dashed for the rest, a legend, a red failure note, and the numbers written down. Same rules in Excalidraw, a Google Doc or plain ASCII.