The 4-step process (and the clock)
Play this lessonThis lesson comes with an interactive animation you can break and a chapter quiz.Every design interview, and every design chapter in this course, follows the same four steps. In a typical 45-minute interview the time splits roughly like this:
| Step | What you do | Time |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Understand the problem and establish the design scope | 3–10 min |
| 2 | Propose a high-level design and get buy-in | 10–15 min |
| 3 | Design deep dive | 10–25 min |
| 4 | Wrap up | 3–5 min |
Key takeaways
- Scope → blueprint → deep dive → wrap up.
- Spend most of your time on the high-level design and the deep dive.