Its honestly not that hard to get to the novice level at design and be able to have conversations with experts in the field. Like other things in its basics you

Its honestly not that hard to get to the novice level at design and be able to have conversations with experts in the field. Like other things in its basics you're learning vocabulary and the rudimentary understanding of "why" certain patterns are used. If you're not looking at doing the design yourself you can bootstrap this up inside of a year. I found https://www.amazon.com/Design-Hackers-Reverse-Engineering-Beauty/dp/1119998956 https://www.amazon.com/Design-Hackers-Reverse-Engineering-Be... to be a good basic overview of a lot of elements.