Design & User Experience Topics
User experience design, frontend architecture, and design systems. Includes UX principles, accessibility, and design documentation.
Pragmatism & Shipping Quality Solutions Within Constraints
Understanding real-world constraints (time, resources, technical limitations, budget, team capacity) and prioritizing effectively. Shipping good-enough solutions on time and in scope rather than endlessly iterating toward perfection. Balancing design quality and user experience with business needs and timelines.
Real Time Feedback Iteration
Skills and behaviors for receiving and applying feedback immediately during a live exercise or collaborative session. This includes demonstrating flexibility in approach, exploring alternative directions when new constraints or information appear, iterating prototypes or solutions in small increments, explaining the rationale for changes, prioritizing trade offs under time pressure, and remaining receptive to interviewer or stakeholder hints while preserving clarity about decision criteria. Interview responses should show how the candidate adapts reasoning in real time, tests quick variations, and communicates iteration steps clearly.
Competitive Analysis & Landscape Research
Conducting competitive analysis by studying 2-3 competitive products or similar solutions. Extracting design patterns, identifying best practices, finding opportunities where competitors fall short. Using competitive insights to inform your design strategy and positioning.