Research and decision practice for design roles

General practice authored by Roamwise. Not actual employer questions.

1. Explain whose task a design exercise was intended to support.

Follow-up: What did you know about the user’s need and what did you assume?
My review: Did I present a visual preference as a proven need?

My answer (real example / explicitly fictional exercise:


Open point:


2. Explain the difference between two design options through one decision.

Follow-up: How did time or content constraints affect the choice?
My review: Did I compare real criteria rather than make the alternative look weak?

My answer (real example / explicitly fictional exercise:


Open point:


3. Describe one detail you changed after feedback.

Follow-up: Which part of the feedback was observation and which was interpretation?
My review: Is revision distinct from measuring its effect?

My answer (real example / explicitly fictional exercise:


Open point:


4. How would you explain material you cannot share or outcomes you did not measure in a portfolio?

Follow-up: How would you label a fictional or reconstructed example?
My review: Did I communicate the limit rather than hide it?

My answer (real example / explicitly fictional exercise:


Open point: