Design & User Experience Topics
User experience design, frontend architecture, and design systems. Includes UX principles, accessibility, and design documentation.
Dashboard Architecture and Layout Design
Focuses on designing effective dashboards that surface the right information quickly and enable exploration. Topics include logical information hierarchy, placing key performance indicators prominently, grouping related metrics, choosing appropriate visualizations for the data and user tasks, and creating visual flow that guides attention. Also covers interactive features such as filtering, drill down, cross filtering, time range controls, and parameterized views; personalization and role based views; accessibility, clarity, and minimizing cognitive load; backend considerations such as data freshness, aggregation and precomputation, query performance, caching strategies, and API design for dashboards; instrumentation, testing and validation with real user scenarios, and trade offs between flexibility and simplicity.
Audience Analysis and Information Hierarchy
Assessing stakeholder needs, information priorities, and decision-making requirements. Designing tailored views for different audiences (executives, product managers, analysts). Understanding different decision contexts and how they shape information needs.
Company Product and Design Knowledge
Demonstrate a well researched understanding of the company, its major products, target users, market position, and core business model, combined with familiarity with the company design philosophy and visible product design patterns. Prepare to speak about flagship products and features, typical user demographics and needs, the engineering or product challenges the company faces, and how those constraints shape product and design decisions. For design roles, be ready to articulate what you admire about the company design aesthetic, specific patterns or interactions you observe, accessibility and usability trade offs, and how your own design sensibilities or past work align with and could contribute to that aesthetic. For non design roles, emphasize product priorities, technical or operational challenges, and how your skills would help advance those products. Cite concrete examples such as a recent feature, a product workflow, a known engineering challenge, or public design documentation to show you have done focused research.
Research Problem Solving
Evaluate how the candidate identifies, frames, and iteratively resolves research or investigation challenges. Expect examples of encountering recruitment difficulties, unexpected findings, stakeholder disagreements, resource or technical constraints, and how the candidate adapted methods in response. Key skills include iterative hypothesis refinement, questioning and testing assumptions, balancing methodological rigor with flexibility, documenting decision making, synthesizing findings, and communicating trade offs to stakeholders. Emphasis is on demonstrating learning from preliminary results and showing a structured approach to refining research questions, methods, and analyses.