Welcoming questions
- Can you tell us about yourself and walk us through one or two favorite projects in your portfolio?
- Which websites do you consider beautifully designed right now, and what makes them work?
Role-specific / technical competencies
- Walk us through your process from receiving a brief to handing off a finished page design.
- How do you approach responsive design? Describe how a recent design changed between desktop and mobile.
- How do you prepare and document a handoff so developers build exactly what you designed?
- What accessibility considerations do you build into your designs by default?
- Which design tools and CMS or site builders do you use, and how deep does your HTML and CSS knowledge go?
Behavioural & culture fit
- Tell us about a time a stakeholder disliked a design you were confident in. How did you handle it?
- Describe a project with a tight deadline. What did you cut, and what did you protect?
- How do you keep growing as a designer, and what have you learned recently?
Problem-solving / case
- Our homepage looks dated and converts poorly. How would you approach a redesign, step by step?
- A landing page gets plenty of traffic but few sign-ups. What would you examine in the design first?
- Marketing needs five campaign landing pages a month, and you are the only designer. How do you make that sustainable?
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