How important is experience as a prerequisite for learning System design, low level design?

(final year in college) I do have some experience building projects and some in internships but iâ ve never really maintained anything for a long enough time to have my system design decisions or low level design come back to bite me.
I want to learn system design from some books like DDIA, OOD for ruby but i feel like i donât have the experience to know why the good solutions are good and why the bad design is bad.

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(If the only way to learn tradeoffs was by waiting for system design decisions to bite programmers, we'd be a lot more technologically behind...)

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wajihOP•11/30/25, 8:03 AM

monitor•12/2/25, 5:38 AM

Places like hellointerview, DDIA, etc. don't typically assume you to know why system design tradeoffs are made - that's why they're there to teach you!

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monitor•12/2/25, 5:39 AM

(If the only way to learn tradeoffs was by waiting for system design decisions to bite programmers, we'd be a lot more technologically behind...)

wajihOP•12/3/25, 8:26 AM

oh nice. Thanks a bunch