Practice a design whiteboard challenge or app critique
Runs a realistic design interview exercise with you, then scores how you framed the problem, explored options, and explained decisions.
The prompt
Run a mock design interview exercise with me.
Exercise type: [whiteboard challenge / app critique / portfolio deep-dive]
Role and level I am interviewing for: [e.g. mid-level product designer, mobile]
Company type: [e.g. fintech startup, enterprise SaaS, consumer app]
Time limit: [e.g. 45 minutes]
What I want to improve: [e.g. framing, speaking while thinking, prioritizing]
How to run it:
1. Give me a realistic prompt suited to the role (for an app critique, let me pick an app I know). Do not give hints yet.
2. Act as the interviewer: answer my clarifying questions briefly, as a real interviewer would, and say "your call" when it is a choice I should make.
3. Let me talk through each stage in turn. Ask one follow-up at a time, including at least one push-back on a decision.
4. At the end, assess me on: clarifying the problem and users, defining success, exploring more than one approach, prioritizing a scope, handling edge cases and constraints, explaining trade-offs, and time management.
Feedback format: a score of 1-4 for each area with a specific example of what I said, the 3 changes that would most raise my performance, and a model outline of a strong answer to the same prompt. Wait for my replies; do not play my side.
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What to fill in
- whiteboard challenge / app critique / portfolio deep-dive
- e.g. mid-level product designer, mobile
- e.g. fintech startup, enterprise SaaS, consumer app
- e.g. 45 minutes
- e.g. framing, speaking while thinking, prioritizing
How this prompt is built
This prompt follows the Few-Shot structure (Few-shot prompting). A few-shot prompt includes one or more worked examples of the input and the output you want, so the model can copy the pattern instead of guessing it.
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