Welcoming questions
- Can you tell us about yourself and what drew you to product design?
- Which project in your portfolio best represents how you work, and why?
Role-specific / technical competencies
- Walk us through your design process on a recent project, from problem definition to launch.
- How do you decide when to run user research versus relying on existing data or design judgment?
- How do you approach designing within and contributing to a design system?
- Describe how you prepare designs for engineering handoff. What do you include to prevent guesswork?
- How do you make your designs accessible, and how do you verify that they are?
Behavioural & culture fit
- Tell us about a time a product manager or engineer pushed back on your design. How did it resolve?
- Describe a piece of critique that changed your work significantly. How do you handle feedback in general?
- How do you balance design quality against deadlines when a release date is fixed?
Problem-solving / case
- Usability tests show users keep missing a key action in our product. Walk us through how you would investigate and redesign it.
- You are asked to design a feature for two user groups with conflicting needs. How do you approach it?
- A shipped design you were confident in is underperforming in the metrics. What do you do next?
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