Product Designer Skills Interview
Author:
Rachel PolicastroA Product Designer interview assessing key skills required for success. We've also included a few motivation and values questions to help you make the best decisions about your candidates.
Focus area:
Question
1
How do you eliminate personal bias when solving UX problems?
What does this question reveal?
Candidate has the ability to remove bias from UX process
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- Advocates for the primary user.
- Conduct user research to understand primary users.
- Puts aside personal opinions which may cloud their judgment of the problem.
- Applies critical thinking (e.g., data-driven decision making, consulting with engineering, etc.)
- Understand the UX process.
Question
2
What are some of the biggest challenges you face as a Product Designer?
What does this question reveal?
Candidate has the ability to be resilient when facing challenges
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- Overcomes challenging projects
- Ability to think outside the box and be creative
- Applies complex problem-solving techniques to develop better designs
- Perseveres and shows resilience when facing problems at work
Question
3
What is your design process, and how do you validate your decisions?
What does this question reveal?
Candidate highlights importance of data driven design decision
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- Understands fundamental UI design principles.
- Utilizes UX research to improve visual design language.
- Thinks through complex problems and visually simplify them.
- Designs with accessibility in mind
Question
4
How do you handle disagreements or negative feedback on your designs?
What does this question reveal?
Candidate has the ability to handle feedback on their designs
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- Takes criticism professionally
- Collaborates with other colleagues for improvement
- Reassess their designs through a non objective lense
- Defends their design decisions based on data
Question
5
Tell me about a time you worked well as part of a design team.
What does this question reveal?
Candidate has the ability to collaborate with team members
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- Shares specific example and why this team worked well
- Mentions effective communication amongst the team and other departments
- Demonstrated openness to others inputs and opinions
- Makes decisions in collaboration with others
- Demonstrates the value in working in a team setting.
Question
6
Tell me about a challenging workplace team situation that you had to deal with.
What does this question reveal?
Candidate has the ability to work through team issues
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- Shares specific example and why it was a challenging experience
- Discusses how they handled the stressful situation
- Demonstrates how they overcame obstacles with others in the workspace
- Demonstrates ability to work with team members who they might not agree with
