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

  1. 1Walk me through a project in your portfolio from problem to outcome.
  2. 2How do you incorporate user research into your process?
  3. 3What does good collaboration with engineers look like to you?

Role-specific

  1. 1How do you balance user needs, business goals, and technical constraints?
  2. 2How do you validate a design before it ships?
  3. 3Describe how you'd improve onboarding for a product with low activation.
  4. 4How do you maintain consistency across a growing product?

Behavioral

  1. 1Tell me about feedback that changed your design. How did you handle it?
  2. 2Describe a time a design didn't test well. What did you do?

Situational

  1. 1You have one week and no research budget for a key flow. How do you proceed?
  2. 2A stakeholder pushes a design you think hurts usability. What do you do?
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