UI/UX Designer Interview Questions

Use these 13+ UI/UX Designer interview questions to assess candidates from every angle: warm-up, role-specific skills, behavior, and problem solving. Adapt them to your process, or generate a custom set with the AI tool below.

Jasmin Erge

Written by Jasmin Erge, HR Content Specialist at Hirex. Reviewed by the Hirex Recruitment Team. Last updated July 15, 2026.

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Welcoming questions

  1. Can you tell us about yourself and the products you have designed?
  2. Pick one shipped project: what problem did it solve, and how do you know it worked?

Role-specific / technical competencies

  1. Walk us through your process from a fuzzy product idea to a tested prototype.
  2. How do you run a usability test with limited time and budget?
  3. How do you decide when to follow the design system and when to break it?
  4. How do you hand off designs so engineers build them faithfully?
  5. Critique one screen of our product right now. What would you investigate first?

Behavioural & culture fit

  1. Tell us about a design you loved that data or research killed. What did you do?
  2. Describe a productive conflict with a product manager or engineer.
  3. How do you handle shipping a compromise you find ugly but pragmatic?

Problem-solving / case

  1. Onboarding completion is 40 percent and product wants 70. How do you approach it?
  2. Support tickets show users cannot find a core feature. Walk us through your fix process.
  3. You have one week of design time for a feature engineers need specs for in three days. What do you do?

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