As a recent graduate (about a week and a half) in Computer Science I still find myself asking the question “What do I want to do and where do I want to work?” I’ve read dozens of articles on how there is a surplus of software engineering jobs and a lack of people to fill them, so finding a job should be pretty easy, let alone figuring out what I want to do, right?

I’ve been working on a lot of websites recently and I’ll be working on a team in my Senior Seminar on a Computer Science Alumni website. After redesigning my website for, what seems to be the millionth time I’ve come up with a few strategies for approching the design problems that could present themselves when creating a new product. I’m not saying these strategies are the correct approach to design, but they’ve helped me through many different projects and seem to be successful.