This document provides an overview of object-oriented software design using the Unified Modeling Language (UML). It discusses key concepts in object-oriented design like classes, methods, inheritance, and relationships. It also describes UML diagrams for modeling different aspects of a system, including use case diagrams for capturing user requirements, class diagrams for modeling the structural design, and how UML was developed through the merging of earlier object-oriented modeling notations. The document aims to introduce software engineering principles and object-oriented modeling techniques using UML.