Interview questions
Product & Design
Product Designer (UX) interview questions
These questions assess a designer's process, craft, and ability to partner with product and engineering to ship usable work.
11 questions across 4 stages.
Phone screen
- 1Walk me through a project in your portfolio from problem to outcome.
- 2How do you incorporate user research into your process?
- 3What does good collaboration with engineers look like to you?
Role-specific
- 1How do you balance user needs, business goals, and technical constraints?
- 2How do you validate a design before it ships?
- 3Describe how you'd improve onboarding for a product with low activation.
- 4How do you maintain consistency across a growing product?
Behavioral
- 1Tell me about feedback that changed your design. How did you handle it?
- 2Describe a time a design didn't test well. What did you do?
Situational
- 1You have one week and no research budget for a key flow. How do you proceed?
- 2A stakeholder pushes a design you think hurts usability. What do you do?
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