Product Design Interviews
Portfolio prep + AI critique that names what your case study is missing.
Practice the portfolio walk-through, design exercise, and craft critique the way senior designers actually run them. Get specific feedback on case-study narrative, design rationale, and tradeoff defense from an AI designer trained on staff-level reviews.
Free to start · Pro at $9.99/mo unlocks portfolio walk-throughs + critique PDFs
Who this track is for
- Junior + mid-level designers prepping for senior IC product-design loops.
- Designers who freeze in portfolio reviews and want to drill the narrative.
- Researchers + UX writers transitioning into product design.
Why Coachingle for Design
What separates us from the problem-banks + recorded courses.
Portfolio walk-through drills
Upload a case study; the AI walks it the way an interviewer would, asking 'why this metric', 'what did you cut and why', 'what would you do differently'.
Design exercise + critique
60-minute timed exercises — design a feature, defend tradeoffs, sketch flows. Get a critique that grades problem-framing, exploration, and craft separately.
Senior + Staff rubrics
Senior IC interviews grade craft + collaboration; Staff interviews grade design-strategy + cross-team influence. The interviewer's bar shifts.
Spaced-rep on heuristics
10+ Nielsen heuristics, Hick's law, Fitts's law, mental models — surfaced as flashcards on the spaced-rep schedule. The fundamentals stick.
What you'll cover
Concept coverage drilled across cheatsheets, flashcards, quizzes, and mock interviews.
- ✓Portfolio narrative + case-study structure
- ✓Design exercise: feature design, redesign, jobs-to-be-done
- ✓Design rationale + tradeoff defense
- ✓Heuristics: Nielsen, Hick, Fitts, Miller, Tesler
- ✓Mental models + information architecture
- ✓Cross-functional collaboration (eng / PM / research)
- ✓Design ops: critique, hand-off, design systems
- ✓Behavioral: difficult feedback, conflict, growth
Frequently asked questions
Can the AI actually critique a case study?
Yes — upload PDFs or paste case-study links and the AI grades problem-framing, exploration breadth, decision rationale, and craft separately. It's strict in the way a staff designer would be, not vague.
Do you do design exercises live?
Yes. 60-minute timed exercises — you sketch + narrate, AI follows up. We don't render the canvas (use Figma); but the interview-loop dialogue is full.
Are research / UX-writer roles covered?
Not in v1. We focus on product-design IC roles. Research + writing tracks are on the roadmap once we have validated demand.
Ready to drill Design?
Free to start. No credit card. Pro at $9.99/mo unlocks the AI mock interview.