UX interview: Take-home Design Challenges (What Are They Looking for?)

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In this video, I'll go over take-home UX design challenges from the hiring managers' perspective, as long as a my personal experiences and learnings. There is basically 1 thing to focus on for design exercise, and if you miss that, you will get cut from the sea of applicants. I will go over what that is and give you other actionable tips to what to look out for.

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0:00 Intro
0:51 Design exercise vs white boarding
1:24 What hiring managers are looking for in design challenges
2:29 Tip 1: get clarities on the prompt
3:15 Tip 2: spend (enough) time on visual design
5:43 Tip 3: use standard libraries and patterns
6:17 Tip 4: pick the right prompt
7:20 Tip 5: have a reason for design decisions
8:42 My hot take on design exercises

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