Interview prep
UI/UX Designer interview questions
Design interviews center on your portfolio, your process, and a whiteboard/app-critique exercise. Expect to walk through one case study end-to-end.
🎤 Practice these out loud with AceCoach →The questions
Walk me through a project from problem to shipped design. Portfolio
How to answerProblem & users → research insight → explorations → the decision & trade-offs → outcome (metrics or qualitative).
Critique the onboarding of an app you admire — and one you don't. Critique
How to answerJudge against user goal, not taste; name specific friction; propose a concrete fix and how you'd validate it.
How do you design when there's no research budget? Scrappy
How to answerGuerrilla tests, support tickets, analytics, 5-user hallway tests; make assumptions explicit and cheap to test.
Tell me about a time you disagreed with a PM or engineer on a design. Behavioral
How to answerSTAR: the disagreement, how you brought data/user evidence, the resolution, the relationship.
How do you balance a design system's consistency with a one-off need? Systems
How to answerDefault to the system; when deviating, justify by user value and document it back into the system.
What ui/ux designers are tested on
FigmaInteraction designUser researchDesign systemsPrototypingUsability testing
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