Every question below is one that gets asked. What we have added is the part that usually goes unsaid: what a strong answer actually demonstrates. Career1 scores interviews for a living, so this is the difference we see between an answer that lands and one that was rehearsed.
The portfolio walkthrough
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Take me through this project. What was the constraint?
What a strong answer shows: Whether you designed toward a problem or decorated a requirement. The constraint is the part that cannot be invented afterwards.
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What did you personally decide here, and what did the team decide?
What a strong answer shows: Honesty about scope. Beautiful case studies routinely come from teams of six, and claiming all of it reads badly.
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What would you change about this now?
What a strong answer shows: Self-criticism. Designers who have shipped always have an answer; people presenting student work often do not.
Research and evidence
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How did you know the design was working?
What a strong answer shows: Whether the answer involves evidence or taste. Both are legitimate, but conflating them is not.
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Tell me about a time research contradicted what you believed.
What a strong answer shows: Whether research is used to learn or to justify. This one is very hard to fake.
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How do you work when there is no budget for research?
What a strong answer shows: Resourcefulness: support tickets, session recordings, sales calls and talking to five users are all real answers.
Working with other people
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What happens when engineering says your design is too expensive to build?
What a strong answer shows: Collaboration versus territory. The best answers involve finding what was expensive and redesigning around it.
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How do you handle a stakeholder who wants something you think is wrong?
What a strong answer shows: Whether you can disagree with evidence and still ship.
Now practise it out loud
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Practise this interview freeQuestions people ask
What should a UX portfolio show for interviews?
Fewer projects, in more depth. Two or three cases where you can explain the constraint, the alternatives you rejected and what you would change beat a gallery of finished screens every time.
How do I interview well with mostly unshipped work?
Be direct about what shipped and what did not, then spend the time on the reasoning. Interviewers mind an unshipped project far less than they mind discovering later that it never launched.
Do UX interviews include a design exercise?
Often, either as a take-home or a live whiteboard session. The evaluation is usually about how you frame the problem and what questions you ask before drawing anything.
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