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ux-designer

Interview Questions​

designers: - Stress management: "Our design team often faces tight deadlines for client pitches---tell me about a time you delivered high-quality work under intense pressure." - Independence: "We need designers who can troubleshoot creative blocks on their own---share an example of when you solved a tough design problem without much guidance." - Cross-functional: "You'll collaborate with product and marketing teams---describe a time you worked with non-designers to shape a project's direction."

What would you do first when using a wireframing tool to create a new wireframe?

  • Prototype user interactions.
  • Define device dimensions.
  • Lay out the menu options.
  • Design interface navigation.
  • how do you handle style bleed?

You are a new member on a design system team. You need to choose the best platforms for the team to create the design system. The only two requirements are that:

  1. you look first at existing tools, and
  2. the design system needs to be shareable with all collaborators The company has an Adobe software license. What would you do?
  • Create the design system using Adobe Animate and process it for digital marketing.
  • Create the design system using Adobe Dreamweaver and host it live as a website.
  • Create the design system using Adobe XD and use libraries to share it with your team.
  • Create the design system using Adobe Lightroom and display it on a digital board.

You need to know why your users think and feel the way they do about a product experience your team built? How would you investigate this information?  

  • Conduct structured surveys to send out to the largest possible group of users, then analyze the data.
  • Conduct online research into who your users are to confirm your target audience for user testing,
  • Conduct recorded user interviews, take notes, and synthesize this qualitative data to uncover insights.
  • Conduct analysis on user data collected from A/B split testing for the landing page conversion rate.

You are a UX designer who is designing a website's information architecture (IA). After a recent card sorting session with potential users, you need to analyze the results to identify the most relevant content for users. What would you do?

  • Use custom spreadsheets to enhance analysis and obtain more comparable results that reflect user generated content.
  • Use web analytics to search for commonalities in user behavior that can indicate content relevance through engagement.
  • Use a dendrogram to investigate which labels need to be grouped, removed, or updated to better reflect user understanding.
  • Use data derived from previous user interviews to better match user needs with content topics.

You are a lead UX designer. Your product manager asks you to design a wiki site to host a style guide of design components used in a recently launched app. What would you do to manage this task?

  • Hand the task over to your team so that you do not micro-manage and suppress creativity.
  • Break the project down and assign tasks to each member of your team.
  • Spend one day planning the project and creating tasks for you to complete.
  • Gather the components needed for the style guide and distribute them evenly across the team.

What is an example of a stakeholder need in UX design?

  • Changing a products user interface colors due to own preference
  • Contracting with external businesses to increase productivity
  • Buying shares in startup companies to maximize investor returns
  • Maximizing business profit by increasing a product's user base

What are the four principles of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG)?

  • Perceivable, operable, understandable, and robust
  • White space, movement, variety, and unity
  • Contrast, balance, emphasis, and proportion
  • Hierarchy, repetition, rhythm, and patterns

You are defining the information architecture (IA) for a client's large new website. You are not yet clear on the most effective order of the information you have. How can you confirm the most meaningful order of information for the user?

  • Build a paper prototype and conduct structured interviews with target users to gather quantitative data.
  • Create wireframes and conduct A/B split testing online with target users to test conversion rates.
  • Design a digital prototype and conduct semi-structured interviews with target users to gauge user needs.
  • Conduct a recorded card sorting session online with target users to understand what is meaningful for them.

What is the difference between standards and guidelines for UX design systems?

  • Standards are guidelines to general design applications. Design guidelines are limited rules used in user interface applications.
  • Standards are low in authority and specific in application. Design guidelines are higher in authority and ubiquitous in application.
  • Standards are higher in authority and limited in application. Design guidelines are low in authority and are more general in application.
  • Standards are used to recommend user interface applications. Design guidelines are high in authority and essential in design applications.  

You are designing a website for users with visual impairments and limited color vision. What would you do to highlight important information on this website?

  • Use bigger font size and bold letters with underlines.
  • Use animated objects and monochrome colors schemes.
  • Use a combination of specific color schemes and themes.
  • Use a combination of text, color, and graphical scheme.

How is reverse card sorting used to test the navigation of a mobile application?

  • Users are given cards to sort into categories, which are then named by the UX researcher.
  • Users are given tasks to complete by navigating an existing collection of index cards.
  • Users are given a check sheet to complete by reordering shared index cards from other users.
  • Users are given a specific goal to achieve while making notes on index cards for review.

What are examples of pattern library elements?

  • Sketches, design mockups, and sticky notes
  • Brand message, values, and guidelines
  • Logo variants, typography, and color palettes
  • Carousels, navigation, and breadcrumbs

What is an example of a feature that can be added to a website to improve the user flow for keyboard-only users?

  • Navigation menu items placed in the footer and the navigation areas
  • High color contrast between text and background colors for keyboard visibility
  • Clearly written text content that helps provide feedback for keyboard inputs
  • Invisible skip links that become visible when the user presses the tab key

As a UX designer, your manager asks you to conduct research to find out what types of content users want to read on the company blog. How would you card sort user tests to better understand user content preferences?

  • Collaborate with users in a brainstorming activity. Ask users to write ideas on sticky notes to be displayed on a whiteboard. Then ask users to comment on each idea.
  • Ideate topics and write each one onto individual cards. Ask users to organize topics into groups and name them. Then ask users followup questions to confirm data.
  • Ask users to ideate topics and write each one onto individual cards. Ask users to name each card and sort them in alphabetical order. Take notes to analyze the data.
  • Present users with content topics. Ask users to split them into two groups. Then ask each user to compare and vote for the most preferred group.

You are starting your own UX design agency. When assigning ideal team roles in your research and planning, you find that design system components are often inconsistent or duplicated across the system and its users. How can you help ensure this is managed by the team?

  • Make it clear who will take charge by identifying a design lead to govern the standardization of the design system.
  • Use external design patterns and software applications to reduce duplicated team efforts and component inconsistencies.
  • Select a designer that will create a visual brand style guide to share with the rest of the team for improved consistency.
  • Assign a facilitator to hold regular team meetings for discussion about how to resolve these potential issues.

As a UX design lead, you manage a small team that is working on a new mobile app's user interface. When discussing the end user in a team meeting, you realize that the design team does not have a common or deep understanding of the user's needs. What should you do?

  • Instruct the design team to redesign all user personas with a view to revise their collective understanding of the target audience, their behaviors, and their needs.
  • Create an empathy map that visualizes user attitudes, behaviors and needs. Then share it with the team to help align their understanding of when making design decisions.
  • Delay addressing this issue until the app prototype has been designed. Then ask team members to test the app and use it while describing their experiences aloud.
  • Sketch storyboards to help the team visualize how the app's user interface and functionality will need to be designed to meet user needs.

What is a key characteristic of a target audience?

  • Typographic
  • Cryptographic
  • Demographic
  • Photographic

What happens to a brand design if a style guide is not created for it?

  • It becomes meaningless for brand owners and is therefore overlooked.
  • It becomes inconsistent across channels and is therefore unrecognizable.
  • It becomes diluted over time for target audiences and is therefore redundant.
  • It becomes unusable for in-house designers and is therefore unprofessional.

You are managing the outcomes of a new ecommerce website. After assessing web analytics metrics, you calculate that the conversion rate for the month is 30% higher than it was the previous month. How would you investigate the reason for this increase?

  • Assess user demographics data from the previous year and create user personas for testing purposes.
  • Assess user behavior for the past two months. Compare how their interactions with the product evolved.
  • Assess user reviews by conducting desk research. Expand on the negative feedback to resolve problems.
  • Assess user engagement with the website using online feedback forms. Match this data with the metrics you have.

What are the steps involved in design system governance?

  • Use what is available, assess what is missing, identify new work required, and implement the work.
  • Ideate a new design, identify what is already present, assess the delta, and implement the delta.
  • Take a satisfaction survey for the current design, assess the inputs, and implement the feasible inputs.
  • Assess user feedback on the current design, perform feasibility analysis, and implement the feasible inputs.