Preparing for a design role at Product & Design requires a dual focus on your portfolio presentation and your ability to execute under pressure during practical assessments. You should be ready to articulate not just what you designed, but why you designed it, backed by clear rationale and performance metrics.

Visual & Interaction Craft – You must demonstrate a high level of execution in layout, typography, visual hierarchy, and motion. Interviewers will look for your attention to detail and your ability to deliver production-ready assets that align with modern design standards.

User-Centered Problem Solving – You need to show that your design decisions are rooted in user research, cognitive psychology, and business goals. Be prepared to explain how you validate your designs and measure their real-world impact.

Cross-Functional Collaboration – Designing in a vacuum does not work here. You must prove that you can partner effectively with engineers, product managers, and other artists, showing empathy for their constraints and translating feedback into constructive design iterations.

Resilience & Communication – The interview process is rigorous and involves multiple stakeholders. You must showcase strong communication skills, an ability to handle constructive critique gracefully, and the stamina to see multi-stage design challenges through to completion.

The interview process for a UX/UI Designer at Product & Design is designed to thoroughly evaluate both your strategic thinking and your hands-on execution. The journey is comprehensive, typically spanning multiple weeks and involving multiple key stages of evaluation.

You will navigate a series of conversations with recruiters, design managers, and cross-functional team members, alongside a intensive practical design test. Because our teams value diverse perspectives, you will present your work to a panel of interviewers representing different disciplines, ensuring a well-rounded assessment of your collaborative style.

The timeline above details the typical progression from your initial conversation to the final decision. Candidates should use this visual guide to pace their preparation, ensuring they allocate ample time to polish their portfolio before the initial screens and set aside dedicated focus time for the intensive design test. While the overall structure remains consistent, the specific focus of the technical test will align with your target track, whether that is UX architecture, UI art, or motion design.

To excel in this process, you must understand the specific competencies our interview panels evaluate during each stage of the loop.

Interactive UI & Motion Design

This area evaluates your ability to design highly polish interfaces and dynamic transitions that guide user behavior. It is especially critical for UI Artist and UI Animator candidates.

Be ready to go over:

• UI Juice and Micro-interactions – How you use animation to provide feedback, direct attention, and create delight.
• Asset Optimization – Your understanding of technical constraints, including sprite sheets, vector vs. raster performance, and engine integration.
• Visual Hierarchy – Utilizing contrast, scale, and motion to make dense interfaces easily scannable.
• Advanced concepts (less common) – Integrating UI elements within 3D environments, performance budgeting for complex animations, and writing basic UI transition logic.

Example scenarios:

• Walk us through how you would animate a transition between a dashboard view and a detailed item view to minimize cognitive load.
• Explain how you would optimize a highly stylized, animated UI asset to run smoothly on low-end mobile hardware.

User-Centered UX Architecture

This area focuses on your ability to structure systems, map user flows, and design accessible, intuitive experiences. This is the primary evaluation pillar for Senior UX Designer roles.

Be ready to go over:

• Information Architecture – How you organize and label content to facilitate navigation and task completion.
• Wireframing & Prototyping – Creating low-to-mid fidelity prototypes to quickly validate user flows.
• Accessibility (WCAG) – Designing interfaces that are usable for individuals with visual, motor, or cognitive impairments.
• Advanced concepts (less common) – Designing for complex, non-linear user journeys and conducting quantitative usability testing at scale.

Example scenarios:

• You are tasked with redesigning a multi-step checkout flow that has a high drop-off rate. How do you identify the friction points and restructure the flow?
• How do you balance accessibility compliance with a highly stylized, dark-themed brand aesthetic?

Portfolio Presentation & Critique

Your portfolio review is a critical test of your communication, self-awareness, and ability to handle feedback. You will present your past work to a panel of designers and product stakeholders.

Be ready to go over:

• Case Study Delivery – Structuring your presentation to clearly define the problem, your role, the iterations, and the final business outcome.
• Design Rationale – Defending your aesthetic and structural decisions with data, user psychology, or technical constraints.
• Feedback Reception – How you respond to real-time critique and alternative design suggestions from the panel.
• Advanced concepts (less common) – Discussing failed projects, what you learned from them, and how those failures shaped your subsequent design methodologies.

Example scenarios:

• A panel member suggests that your chosen navigation pattern is outdated. Walk us through how you would constructively address this critique during the presentation.
• Explain a major pivot you had to make mid-project due to sudden technical limitations imposed by the engineering team.

As a UX/UI Designer at Product & Design, your day-to-day work will directly impact our production pipeline and the end-user experience. You will own features from conceptual ideation all the way through to final visual polish and implementation support.

• Ideation & Wireframing – Collaborating with product managers to translate feature requirements into user flows, wireframes, and interactive prototypes.
• High-Fidelity UI Design – Crafting pixel-perfect interface layouts, custom icons, and visual assets that align with established brand guidelines.
• UI Animation & Motion – Designing and prototyping transitions, state changes, and micro-interactions that elevate the tactile feel of the product.
• Design System Stewardship – Contributing to and maintaining our centralized design system to ensure visual and functional consistency across all platforms.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration – Working hand-in-hand with front-end and engine developers to ensure design assets are integrated accurately and performantly.
• Usability Validation – Partnering with user researchers to test design concepts, analyze user feedback, and iterate based on qualitative and quantitative insights.