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### Chapter 3

# Design

The **Design** phase will ensure your organization uses a contract-first approach. This phase entails gathering feedback early, breaking the dependencies between projects, and reducing risks. Also, a contract-first approach is known to reduce the time to market.

In the **Design** phase, you design the contract of your API and share it with your future consumers. The outcome of the **Design** phase is an API contract that describes the messages that can be exchanged with your APIs.