Interview guide
Design interviews center the portfolio walkthrough — process, decisions, and measured outcomes on 2–3 projects — plus app critiques and whiteboard challenges scoring collaboration and reasoning over pixels.
Portfolio deep-dive: problem, constraints, process, outcome per project
App critique: strengths, weaknesses, and redesign rationale live
Whiteboard challenge: design a flow with stated assumptions
Research: choosing methods, synthesizing findings into decisions
Collaboration: pushing back on PM/eng constraints productively
Craft: design systems, accessibility, handoff practices
Rehearse each portfolio piece as decisions-with-reasons rather than a screens tour — 'we chose X over Y because [user evidence]' is the sentence structure interviewers are listening for throughout.
Design interviews center the portfolio walkthrough — process, decisions, and measured outcomes on 2–3 projects — plus app critiques and whiteboard challenges scoring collaboration and reasoning over pixels.
Rehearse each portfolio piece as decisions-with-reasons rather than a screens tour — 'we chose X over Y because [user evidence]' is the sentence structure interviewers are listening for throughout.
Directly — interviewers build questions from your resume's claims, so every skill and achievement listed becomes fair game. A tailored, honest resume steers the interview toward your strongest material; an inflated one hands the interviewer traps you set for yourself.
Interviewers build their questions from what your resume claims. Tailor it to the role honestly first — free ATS score, missing keywords, and a recruiter-ready rewrite.