I had a chance to participate as well as run couple of interviews for multiple UX positions. I also managed to get some questions from my UX friends and eventually I came up with the list you may find below.
I genueinly believe this list will help candidates and recruiters. I am also open to any comments or more examples so I can update this article in the future. I’m also planning to come up with examples of good and bad answers for each of those questions so I am also open for your ideas in this subject 🙂
Basics / General
- Name someone you admire/follow in UX field?
- How do you stay up to date with current design trends and innovations?
- How did you get into UX Design?
- What is the definition of User Experience?
- What is the difference between UX and UI?
- Do you feel more like UX or UI Designer?
- What is more important UX or UI?
- What is User Centered Design?
- What is Design Thinking?
- How do you balance the goals of the end user with those of the business?
- What’s the difference between UX Designer and UX Researcher?
- What inspires you on daily basis?
- What is the project you are the most proud of. Why?
- What is the project you don’t want to show to anyone? Why?
- Tell me something you might have changed in one of your projects if you had a chance. Tell me why.
- Tell me about a time you have failed. What happened?
- What’s your dream project?
Design / Prototyping
- Which mobile do you consider as an example of great UX? Why?
- What design trend you can’t stand? Why?
- How would you design an ATM?
- How would you design an elevator buttons in 1000 floors building?
- How do you balance design aesthetic with revenue-generating activities on a website?
- How do you know you are on the right path?
- User needs or business goals — what is more important and why?
- How would you design Submit and cancel buttons. Tell me why.
- Show me a design example where you solved the problem.
- What design tools do you use?
- What are your favourite Sketch plugins? How do they help you in your design work?
- How do you use data (qualitative or quantitative) in your designs?
- What are the most common design patterns for mobile?
- Tell me about an assignment that was too difficult. How did you handle that?
- What’s the role of styleguide and what’s your opinion on that?
- Name one thing you would like to change to improve our product / website / service.
- Do you think pixel-perfect mockups are relevant? Why?
- What is your favourite font?
- Why do you think you can’t use certain fonts in mobile apps?
- Would you use custom or native (iOS/Android) UI controls for a mobile app? Tell me why.
- What do you think of hamburger menu? What’s the alternative?
- What’s the difference in designing for iOS and Android?
- What is the difference between designing a mobile and web app?
- How would you use VR/AR in your next big idea (app)?
Process / Collaboration / Poeple
- Have you worked in a Lean / Agile environment before?
- Can you explain iterative design approach?
- How do you know when your design is “done”?
- Walk me through your design process.
- If you design something and a developer told you “we can’t implement it” what would you do?
- You don’t have enough time to design everything on time. How do you handle it?
- How do you form positive relationships with teammates or stakeholders?
- Do you prefer working alone or with other designers? Why?
- Have you ever faced a situation in which your feedback/recommendation was not taken? How did you handle that?
- What did your previous team look like?
- You want to redesign some feature but the client says they don’t want to spend the time or money to make the changes. How would you approach that?
- What would be the most difficult type of client to work with?
- How would you decide which features to keep and which to cut?
- What’s your favorite workshop activity?
- How do you work with engineers/Product Managers/other designers?
- What is the difference between starting project from the scratch and taking over legacy project?
- When do you think UX phase starts and ends? Why?
- How do you handle situation when you have to find a sweet spot between a budget and requirements ?
Testing
- Have you created personas before? How did they help you?
- How do you think personas should reflect actual users?
- Can you describe a time when the requirements changed in the middle of a project. How did you handle that?
- How would you measure the success of a launched product?
- How do you test your solution in early stage?
- What kind of usability testing methods have you applied in your projects?
- How do you recruit user testing participants?
- What if you can’t access your actual users? (for the purpose of user testing)?
- How do you run remote user testing?
- What testing tool is your favourite? Why?
- How would you execute user testing in multiple countries around the world? What constraints come to your mind in this case?
Cliches / HR
- Why are you looking for a new position?
- What is about our product/service that excites you the most?
- Why do you want to leave your current job?
- What would your current colleagues tell if they had to describe your person?
- How did you find us?
- What is your salary requirements?
- What question do you wish I would ask?
Hopefully I helped you with hiring UX person or finding new UX position 😉
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