Product Designer Skills Interview

A 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.

Clock, Time
30
min
Briefcase, work, skills
skill-based
Document, Questions
6
questions

Focus area:

UX Design
Teamwork / Collaboration
User-Interface Design

Question

1

How do you eliminate personal bias when solving UX problems?

UX Design
Clock, Time
5
min

What does this question reveal?

Candidate has the ability to remove bias from UX process

Explore tips

  • 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.
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Question

2

What are some of the biggest challenges you face as a Product Designer?

UX Design
Clock, Time
5
min

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
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Question

3

What is your design process, and how do you validate your decisions?

User Interface Design
Clock, Time
5
min

What does this question reveal?

Candidate highlights importance of data driven design decision

Explore tips

  • 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
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Question

4

How do you handle disagreements or negative feedback on your designs?

User Interface Design
Clock, Time
5
min

What does this question reveal?

Candidate has the ability to handle feedback on their designs

Explore tips

  • Takes criticism professionally
  • Collaborates with other colleagues for improvement
  • Reassess their designs through a non objective lense
  • Defends their design decisions based on data
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Question

5

Tell me about a time you worked well as part of a design team.

Teamwork/Collaboration
Clock, Time
5
min

What does this question reveal?

Candidate has the ability to collaborate with team members

Explore tips

  • 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.
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Question

6

Tell me about a challenging workplace team situation that you had to deal with.

Teamwork/Collaboration
Clock, Time
5
min

What does this question reveal?

Candidate has the ability to work through team issues

Explore tips

  • 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
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