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Product Designer Onsite Questions

Product Designer Onsite Questions

Customer Success

  • What is the biggest challenge users face with the product?
  • Are there any significant drop off points in the experience?
  • What are some features users are expecting or inquire about?

Engineering

  • How much of things built come from designs?
  • What areas of the product do you feel need design support?
  • How much of the product does design typically touch?
  • How do you conduct design reviews?
  • What does your frontend/component library look like?
  • Are there areas of product debt that you're interested in tackling early?
  • How do you do design requests?

Product Manager

  • How do you source new features?
  • What do you use to track product events?
  • How do you validate tests?
  • What are low-hanging features left to work on?
  • What are larger features to be developed in coming year?
  • What are the uncharted areas?
  • How do you balance feature development between core roadmap, product maintenance, user request and internal tools?
  • Where are you looking for a product designer to make a majority of contributions?

Design

  • What all design and organizational tools do you use on the team?
  • What engineering or product tools are you required to use?
  • Describe the teams and design process?
  • How do you balance between marketing, product and research?
  • What will be the primary concern of the role in the near term?
  • What areas of the product require the most attention?
  • What is the culture of standups and grits?
  • How much is the design team budgeted to grow in the next year?

Company Specifics

  • Audience: Legal professionals and operations
  • Mission: To deliver better software to a technologically underserved profession
  • Core Values: Trust, Integrity and Initiative
  • Product Leads: Diana Hasan, VP of Product
  • Tech Stack: React, Postgres, Amplitude…

Product Designer Team Questions

  • What are the demographic groups of our customers?
  • Who are other competitors and what do we do that they can't?
  • What are the main bugs or what do customers dislike about our product/segment?
  • What ideas do you have to improve the product?
  • Where does the product roadmap live?
  • How long does it typically take for a proven idea to move from backlog to delivery?
  • How can product improve its delivery?
  • What design handoff or feedback tools do you use & how are they working?
  • What all documentation & project tools does the team use?
  • Who are the key figures on the product team?
  • What are the big themes for the next few quarters?
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