Design Strategy, Vision, and Leadership Questions
Operating design above the artifact level: design vision, strategy, advocacy, and influence across an organization. Covers championing design (including speaking truth to power), scaling design practice and quality across teams, driving cross-product consistency, and reasoning about industry direction and the future of design. The leadership and org-level surface.
You have a high-fidelity Figma prototype with complex interactions. Engineers report the design will significantly increase bundle size and slow initial load. Propose a practical handoff checklist and refactor plan to preserve critical interactions while staying within a strict performance budget.
You are responsible for measuring visual consistency across a multi-product suite. Propose a set of quantitative and qualitative metrics you would track, explain how you'd collect them, and how you'd surface regressions to teams.
What artifacts do you produce to communicate your design philosophy to engineers and product partners (e.g., component specs, accessibility notes, motion guidelines)? Provide a list with one-sentence purpose for each artifact.
You're asked to audit an existing product for inclusive design issues quickly. Describe a lightweight audit process, the prioritized checklist you'd run through, and how you'd present findings to the product team with recommended fixes.
Describe how you would document and communicate design trade-offs (e.g., accessibility vs speed, aesthetics vs conversion) in a PRD or stakeholder memo so that non-design stakeholders understand the reasoning and potential impacts.
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