# 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.

- Topic: Career & Job Search
- Framework: Few-Shot
- Level: Standard
- Tags: Productivity, Analyze, Fill-in Template, Interactive
- Source: https://www.thinkwithprompt.com/prompts/practice-a-design-whiteboard-challenge-or-app-critique

## Prompt

```text
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.
```

## 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

Free to copy and use. From ThinkWithPrompt (https://www.thinkwithprompt.com/), a library of 2,663 curated AI prompts.