UX and Product Designer Interview Questions and Answers

Designer interviews centre on your portfolio and process: how you understand users, explore options, work with product and engineering, and measure whether a design worked. Expect a portfolio walkthrough, a design exercise and behavioural questions about feedback and collaboration.

Below are 17 questions asked in ux and product designer interviews, each with a sample answer and tips. Read the answer, then practise it out loud: InterviewGuru's AI mock practice scores your spoken or typed answer out of 10 and shows what to improve.

🎯 What interviewers look for
  • A portfolio story with the problem, your role, the constraints, the options you rejected and the outcome
  • Research that informed decisions, and how you tested designs with users
  • Taking critique well and defending decisions with evidence rather than taste
  • Working with engineers on feasibility and with product on scope
  • Accessibility, consistency and design systems
Behavioral (1)
Culture Fit (4)
Teamwork (1)
HR Screening (1)
Job Offer Negotiation (1)
Product Sense (7)
Technical (2)

Practise out loud with AI feedback

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