I am working on a project in my company and as I mentioned in the subject of this question, being new to OOPS and new to vb.net, should I consider to adopt or use design pattern in this project ? Or am I better off in terms of meeting deadline to just go-ahead with programming in vb.net (will be using most of OOPS concepts) ?

Any thoughts and suggestions...my project manager is encouraging us to use the UML design patterns though he is aware that I am new to both ....

I am currently reading 2 books on Design patterns in vb.net but the examples illustrated are very simple and easy to understand but when it comes to being able to apply the newly learnt design patterns in our project I am feeling very difficult.

Any suggestions will be very helpful...