See what Google, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft, Salesforce and other companies are asking at UX Design job interviews.

1. 64 Interview
Questions for UX
Designers
Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Amazon, Salesforce…

2. 1. What is the difference between
Information Architecture and
User Experience?
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3. 2. Redesign Craigslist.
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4. 3. How do you design an
interface for a 1000 floors
elevator?
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5. 4. What are some UX research
methods?
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6. 5. Redesign the Amazon
homepage.
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7. 6. Describe the traits that a great
UX designer would possess?
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8. 7. Describe a product that you
really love and why? How can
you improve it?
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9. 8. Whiteboard a solution to
enhance the experience of
driving a car.
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10. 9. 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. 10. 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. 11.How would you conduct user
interviews if you were trying to
test a particular interaction?
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13. 12. 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. 13. How would you balance the
requirements between the user
goals and business goals?
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15. 14.How would you monetize one
of the research projects listed on
your resume?
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16. 15. 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. 16. What are the weaknesses of
personas? How do you overcome
those weaknesses?
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18. 17. How would you conduct user
interviews if you were trying to
test a particular interaction?
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19. 18. How would you deal with a
dataset that was too large to load
into memory?
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20. 19. 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. 20. What are the design tools you
use to create and communicate
your design ideas?
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22. 21. Are you open to design
criticism from different members
of a project?
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23. 22. Jelly Bean test?
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24. 23. What is your process as a UX
Designer?
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25. 24. Critique a responsive
website.
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26. 25. Describe the process of how
you would create a wine website
from scratch.
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27. 26. Design a new search for the
library.
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28. 27. What metrics would you use
to evaluate your design?
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29. 28. What do you know about
Information Architecture?
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30. 29. What is your favorite
research method? What is the
website/ app that you like or hate
and why?
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31. 30. What all things would you
consider while designing a
security application?
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32. 31. 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. 32. How would you design a
kitchen?
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34. 33. 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. 34. 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. 35. How would you design [a
particular feature] differently?
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37. 36. Show us an example of a
website with a great design.
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38. 37. Design a design process on
the go.
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39. 38. Design for the blind.
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40. 39. Pick a product, identify a UX
problem, and describe how you
would conduct research.
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41. 40. 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. 41. 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. 42. Propose a research question
and research design. Explain
how it is useful for Facebook.
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44. 43. What is your favorite site or
app besides Facebook and why?
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45. 44. Pitch a new product. How
would you research it?
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46. 45. Pick a favorite app, tell us
how you would evaluate it.
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47. 46. Pick a topic you care about
and tell us how it could be
incorporated into Facebook.
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48. 47. Name one feature/
component of the Facebook
interface that a competitor does
better. Why and how?
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49. 48. How would you communicate
your findings to different
stakeholders?
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50. 49. Conduct research on
Autodesk website. Which
methodology will you use?
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51. 50. 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. 51. What have you been doing to
familiarize yourself with current
User Research trends?
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53. 52. 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. 53. When is the best time to
perform research in the design
cycle?
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55. 54. How is designing enterprise
applications different from
designing consumer
applications?
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56. 55. If you were to design the
Harry Potter magic map as a
web application, what would be
your approach?
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57. 56. Are you a perfectionist?
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58. 57. Describe your creative
process when assessing a new
project and deciding on how to
move forward.
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59. 58. How do people use mobile
sites vs. websites?
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60. 59. What does your design
process look like?
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61. 60. Who in the industry do you
follow and read?
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62. 61. 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. 62. How would you design for
someone locating his/her seat in
a baseball stadium?
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64. 63. Can you redesign the Ralph
Lauren website?
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65. 64. Can you tell us your process
from beginning to end when you
get a design assignment?
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