64 Interview Questions for UX DesignersGoogle, Microsoft, Facebook, Amazon, Salesforce…

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2. What is the difference between Information Architecture and User Experience?

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3. Redesign Craigslist.

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4. How do you design an interface for a 1000 floors elevator?

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5. What are some UX research methods?

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6. Redesign the Amazon homepage.

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7. Describe the traits that a great UX designer would possess?

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8. Describe a product that you really love and why? How can you improve it?

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9. Whiteboard a solution to enhance the experience of driving a car.

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10. How would you conduct a user experiment centered on using email? How would you protect a users’ content if they chose to use their personal email during the experiment?

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11. Suppose that you are using eye tracking method on a cross-eyed participant and the calibration could not be successful. What do you do?

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12.How would you conduct user interviews if you were trying to test a particular interaction?

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13. Think about an app you like. Suppose the product manager tells you that he wants you to find the top 10 UX issues. How would you go about this?

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14. How would you balance the requirements between the user goals and business goals?

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15.How would you monetize one of the research projects listed on your resume?

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16. Imagine you have 3 different UIs and you want to know which one is the best, what would you do?

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17. What are the weaknesses of personas? How do you overcome those weaknesses?

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18. How would you conduct user interviews if you were trying to test a particular interaction?

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19. How would you deal with a dataset that was too large to load into memory?

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20. Which app/tool (you use often) would you redesign if you could? If you were a startup’s CEO, which other members/ roles of your team would you need around you?

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21. What are the design tools you use to create and communicate your design ideas?

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22. Are you open to design criticism from different members of a project?

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23. Jelly Bean test?

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24. What is your process as a UX Designer?

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25. Critique a responsive website.

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26. Describe the process of how you would create a wine website from scratch.

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27. Design a new search for the library.

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28. What metrics would you use to evaluate your design?

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29. What do you know about Information Architecture?

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30. What is your favorite research method? What is the website/ app that you like or hate and why?

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31. What all things would you consider while designing a security application?

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32. What would you do if you were required to show a lot of text on a page, but could not change the scroll or template?

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33. How would you design a kitchen?

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34. Someone on the team has a strong opinion about how a certain feature should be designed, but you disagree that it is a good user experience. How do you approach the situation?

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35. You are given a concept for a new app to design (an app for bikers that want to schedule training courses/routes with friends). Whiteboard out a portion of the interface.

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36. How would you design [a particular feature] differently?

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37. Show us an example of a website with a great design.

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38. Design a design process on the go.

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39. Design for the blind.

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40. Pick a product, identify a UX problem, and describe how you would conduct research.

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41. Think of your favorite app. How would you go about studying decreased engagement for that app? What would you tell your manager about why you chose that research method?

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42. What would you tell that person who came to you and said that he wanted a bigger sample size for interviews or a survey?

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43. Propose a research question and research design. Explain how it is useful for Facebook.

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44. What is your favorite site or app besides Facebook and why?

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45. Pitch a new product. How would you research it?

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46. Pick a favorite app, tell us how you would evaluate it.

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47. Pick a topic you care about and tell us how it could be incorporated into Facebook.

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48. Name one feature/ component of the Facebook interface that a competitor does better. Why and how?

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49. How would you communicate your findings to different stakeholders?

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50. Conduct research on Autodesk website. Which methodology will you use?

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51. Describe how you would plan a user study around this scenario: Company A wants to open a coffee shop and wants to see what value people have in coming there.

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52. What have you been doing to familiarize yourself with current User Research trends?

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53. What is the process you would go through (step by step) in developing a research plan with a client through completion?

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54. When is the best time to perform research in the design cycle?

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55. How is designing enterprise applications different from designing consumer applications?

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56. If you were to design the Harry Potter magic map as a web application, what would be your approach?

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57. Are you a perfectionist?

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58. Describe your creative process when assessing a new project and deciding on how to move forward.

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59. How do people use mobile sites vs. websites?

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60. What does your design process look like?

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61. Who in the industry do you follow and read?

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62. Whiteboard challenge – We are unable to place that link in the area you suggested. How else would you approach this knowing the restriction?

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63. How would you design for someone locating his/her seat in a baseball stadium?

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64. Can you redesign the Ralph Lauren website?

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65. Can you tell us your process from beginning to end when you get a design assignment?

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