Question bank
Interview questions, with guidance on how to answer
834 questions across 64 roles. Open one to see what a strong answer includes and common slips, then drill it out loud with Ava. New to answer structure? Start with the learning hub.
Behavioural
Past experience: what you did and what happened.
220 questions
Technical
Craft knowledge and how you would do the work.
572 questions
Case
A scenario to reason through and decide.
29 questions
System design
Design a system and defend the trade-offs.
13 questions
834 questions.
- TechnicalMid levelProduct Designer
Tell me about a usability test that changed your design. What did you see, and what did you change?
Tests: Usability testing & iteration
- TechnicalMid levelProduct Designer
Describe how you have contributed to or used a design system, and when you decided to break from it.
Tests: Design systems
- BehaviouralMid levelProduct Designer
How do you hand off designs to engineers so that what ships matches what you intended?
Tests: Collaboration & critique
- BehaviouralSeniorProduct Designer
A product manager wants to ship a design you believe will hurt users. How do you make your case?
Tests: Communicating design decisions
- TechnicalSeniorProduct Designer
How would you set up or evolve a design system so that several product teams actually adopt it?
Tests: Design systems
- TechnicalSeniorProduct Designer
How do you know whether a design change actually succeeded after it ships?
Tests: Usability testing & iteration
- TechnicalAny levelProduct Designer
How are you using AI tools in your design workflow today, and where do you not trust them?
Tests: Prototyping & tools
- BehaviouralAny levelProduct Designer
Tell me about a time you had to explain a design decision to people who are not designers. How did you make it convincing?
Tests: Communicating design decisions
- TechnicalEntry levelUX Researcher
If a team asked you to find out why users abandon their checkout, how would you plan a first round of research?
Tests: Research planning
- TechnicalEntry levelUX Researcher
During an interview, a participant gives you very short answers. What would you do to get them to open up?
Tests: Interviewing & moderation
- TechnicalEntry levelUX Researcher
How would you explain the difference between what users say and what they do, and why that matters in research?
Tests: Method selection
- TechnicalMid levelUX Researcher
Tell me about a study where you deliberately chose one method over another. Why that one?
Tests: Method selection
- TechnicalMid levelUX Researcher
Walk me through how you go from twenty interview transcripts to a handful of clear findings.
Tests: Analysis & synthesis
- TechnicalMid levelUX Researcher
How have you combined survey or analytics data with qualitative research in a single project?
Tests: Quantitative research
- TechnicalMid levelUX Researcher
How do you recruit the right participants, and how do you handle their consent and personal data?
Tests: Research ethics & recruiting
- BehaviouralMid levelUX Researcher
Tell me about a time your findings were ignored or pushed back on. What did you do?
Tests: Influencing stakeholders
- TechnicalSeniorUX Researcher
How do you decide what research a product organisation should invest in over the next six months?
Tests: Research planning
- TechnicalSeniorUX Researcher
How would you set up a way for designers and product managers to run some of their own research without the quality dropping?
Tests: Research planning
- BehaviouralSeniorUX Researcher
Tell me about research that changed a major product or business decision. How did you get it heard at that level?
Tests: Storytelling & communication
- BehaviouralAny levelUX Researcher
How do you present findings so busy stakeholders actually remember them and act on them?
Tests: Storytelling & communication