엔트리 레벨 UX 디자인 면접 준비하기

### UX 디자인에서 엔트리 레벨 역할 준비하기: 필수 팁과 전략
* 🎨 UX 디자인 초급 직무를 효과적으로 준비하려면 상황, 작업, 행동, 결과의 약자인 **STAR 방법**을 이해하여 면접 시 답변의 구조를 짜는 것이 중요합니다.
* 🖥 이 프레임워크를 사용한 예로, 사용자가 앱 상세 페이지에서 설치 버튼을 클릭하지 않는 상황을 파악한 다음 **전환율을 높이기 위해 UI를 개선하는 작업**을 예로 들 수 있습니다.
* 🔍 더블 다이아몬드와 같이 널리 사용되는 디자인 프레임워크에 익숙해지면 **디자인 프로세스를 명확하게 표현**하고 새로운 역할에서 효과적으로 기여할 준비가 되었음을 보여줄 수 있습니다.
* 📊 포트폴리오에 대해 토론하고 프로젝트와 직면한 디자인 과제를 요약하며 **배운 점과 달라진 점**에 대해 반성할 준비를 하세요.
* 🤝 디자인 선택과 관련된 의견 불일치나 갈등을 어떻게 처리하는지에 대한 질문을 통해 **감성 지능과 다른 사람과 협업하는 능력**을 보여줄 수 있습니다.
* 💬 인터뷰 중에는 **적극적으로 경청하는 것**이 중요하며, 이를 통해 사려 깊게 답변하고 대화에 진정한 관심을 보이는 동시에 답변을 공식화할 시간을 가질 수 있습니다.
* 💡 사전에 회사를 조사하고 자신의 가치관을 회사의 가치와 일치시키면 **특히 왜 그곳에서 일하고 싶은지 묻는 질문에 대한 답변이 훨씬 더 강해질 수 있습니다.**
* 📝 마지막으로, 자신의 생각을 명확하고 간결하게 표현하는 연습을 통해 횡설수설하지 않도록 하면 **면접 과정에서 자신을 강한 지원자로 어필**하는 데 도움이 될 것입니다.

UX 디자이너 지망생은 면접에서 자신의 디자인 프로세스와 경험을 효과적으로 전달할 수 있는 스토리텔링 프레임워크를 숙지해야 합니다.

okay, today we're going to talk about something that I really, really, really, really, really hate: interviews. And I feel like I'm not alone here. A lot of us hate interviews, and for those of you who like interviews, what is wrong with you? I'm just kidding; we love our extroverted friends here, so you're welcome to stay. I have tips for you too, but for me, the idea of going to interviews, and especially in Tech where you have tons of interviews, that's terrible. So, as an introverted person, and I actually have a little bit of social anxiety too, which if you saw my video on social anxiety, you would know. Did you? Okay, does not that many views, so I don't know if you did. But anyways, as someone that has a little bit of social anxiety and is introverted, I don't particularly enjoy interviews. So, coming in as prepared as possible is the only way for me to feel like I can succeed. So, in today's video, I'm going to go over some of the more common and not

so common questions that you can expect to get if you're going for an entry-level or an internship role, and maybe for some senior roles. They'll ask some of the more common ones, but this will be mainly focused on Junior and entry-level and like internship roles. So, this first set of questions is going to be all about helping the interviewer get to know you. So, the first question that you can expect is something around tell me about yourself. I hope you already have your little pitch ready for that, but really, you just want to give some information about you, like where you're from, some fun facts about your background, and an idea of what your interests are in a short amount of time. You don't want to dwell on this question too much. You want to highlight some of the skills that make you a good candidate for the role. Along with that question, you should be ready to talk about how you got into design, and I don't know if all of the interviews are going to

ask you that, but this could be a nice follow-up to the tell me about yourself is talk about how you got into the sign, what got you interested, do you have any background that could influence you as a UX designer and make you a unique candidate. Is there anything in your background that ties you to the company? Like if you're working for a video game company, do you have experience with video games? Are you a gamer? Can you bring that user experience into the role? All of those things that make you unique would be great things to talk about if someone asked you the question of tell me about how you got into design. Another question that you could be asked is where do you look for inspiration? or this could be also tied into how do you stay up to date with the latest trends? You could show that you have diverse interests that are related to design, but then you also want to make sure that what you're saying relates to UX, especially if you're a junior or an entry-level.

designer because you're most likely going to be working on a lot of tactical projects, so you want to make sure that you are able to express that you can find patterns and trends that you can then incorporate into your role. Okay, another question that you should be ready for, and I was asked this question, What is your design process? and honestly, for this, I would pick a framework that is popular in terms of the design process, something like the Double Diamond, and then use that as a way to frame your answer because you want to make sure that you convey that you are familiar with common processes and design processes that then can translate easily to whatever role you're going to be applying to. So definitely something like the Double Diamond would be a great way to show that you understand the process and that you're going to be able to start contributing as soon as possible when you join the role. Also, I want to say that it's getting hard to keep up

with the videos in terms of how much the channel is GR in terms of subscribers. Like we're already past 700. In the last video, I was celebrating the fact that we were almost at 600. So thank you all so much to everyone that has subscribed, liked on the videos, and supported me. But right now, the channel is really small, so take advantage of that. Leave your questions in the comments because I will get to them at our current scale. But there will be a point where I won't be able to take advantage that you're here early. And also, please hit the like and subscribe to the video. And please watch the entire video. We're getting really close to 1,000, but I still have some ways to go for the watch hour. So if you want to support me, please watch as much as the videos, and that will really help support the channel and monetize it faster. So now we're getting into the project questions.

this section can take many different forms. It could be you walking through your portfolio. It could be the interviewer reading your portfolio and asking you questions based on a project that they looked at. But this is all about questions specific to a portfolio, and you should be ready to give a summary of that project, talk about what you learned, talk about what the project was about, what the design problem that you were tackling was, if it was a group project, what you did, what your specific responsibilities were. And then once you give an overview of that project, you should get ready to talk about what you would have done differently. You know how we talked in the case study. If you haven't seen the case study video, check it out up here. But you should get ready to talk about your reflection. So in the case study, we had a section about takeaways, like what you learned. So whenever you're going over your project and you've already summarized it, you

should get ready to answer questions about what you would have done differently, what did you learn. This is going to be something that potentially the interviewer will want to ask just to get a sense of how you would handle projects, what you would learn from them, how you would grow in the position. Another form that this question could take is what were the biggest challenges that you faced in the project and how did you tackle them. So, you want to be honest with this question but not just provide what the challenge is, but then also how you solved it and how you improved the situation. This is similar to like in a more senior role, they might ask you how you manage stakeholders or you manage stakeholder expectations, how do you deal with difficult situations to resolve the problems. Like, you always want to present that situation but also come up with how you solved it. You're going to be working with a lot of different people, and there will inevitably be disagreeing opinions.

and conflict, and you might be called upon to use design as a tool to bring everyone together. So, definitely think about solutions and ways that you handle tough challenges during that project. Also, if you anticipate these questions, you can set yourself up for success because you can then choose a project in your portfolio that can serve as a good story for a lot of these questions and give you the information and the experiences needed for you to look your best during the interview. Another behavioral question that could come up is a question around describing a situation where your designs were not accepted or someone disagreed with your design choices. So, definitely in this question, you want to be able to showcase emotional intelligence. You want to be able to showcase that you can resolve conflicts. You want to be able to show that you are someone that's easy to work with. You can advocate for the user, but then at the same time, you're able to come to an agreement and to a compromise with the team so that you basically help the

team move forward, and then also you can expect some questions about user research. In a lot of places, user research is not given the value that it deserves, and some companies don't even have researchers. So, you could be asked about how you incorporate research into your work and what part of the process do you incorporate research. How do you use it? How do you leverage research to validate your design solutions? So, these you can expect some sort of question around research and how do you incorporate it into your work. And then, along those lines, you might be asked about how you use data to inform your designs. So, this is something that is a little bit harder if you haven't worked on real projects, but in a lot of projects, after the design phase and after your designs are approved and you move into the experimentation phase, you will start to get data from those learning experiments, and then you can use that data to improve your design, especially if you're doing A/B testing or you're comparing different options. If you've had experience with

these types of projects or you've experienced working in this part of the development process. Then you want to highlight that, but if not, then you can focus on user research and talk about qualitative and quantitative data from user research that you've performed in your project. Another way to incorporate user research is to talk about how user research impacted or changed a design decision or a design approach that you had for one of your projects. So potentially, you originally had a particular idea of what you thought the design solution was for a particular pain, for a particular problem, but then after performing user research, you realize that you were solving for the wrong problem or that the solution that you had was not the appropriate one for the problem that you were trying to tackle. And you can talk about how you changed your designs or your design direction based on the data that you gathered. That would be a great way to show that you have an understanding of how to incorporate all of these different aspects into your own work. Another one

would be being asked about ambiguity. So, how would you potentially work on a project where there are no requirements, where you're not clear what you're trying to solve for? They basically want to assess how you work on defining the problem, working with your researchers and your cross-functional partners to really understand what it is that you're trying to solve for. How do you actually turn it into a tactical project that then you can put into a roadmap and start working towards that end goal? This is all about working in a space where you're not really sure what the solution is, and you're not really clear about which problem you should tackle. So, definitely a more advanced question that could be asked. I think as long as you have an understanding around the type of questions that you can get asked, then you can prepare yourself to have a narrative and have some anecdotes ready for when those questions are asked. But in reality, it's really hard to predict what

all the questions are going to be asked during an interview because a lot of interviews are very organic. So, depending on what you answer to a particular question, the interviewer could ask you something different, and there could be a follow-up question that you didn't even prepare for. So, just remember that interviews are organic, but you want to make sure that you have the more common questions ironed out so that you don't have to stress during the interview about being blindsided with a question that you were not prepared for. And honestly, it might still happen because you don't really know what they're going to ask you in the end. So, now that we've covered the main questions, I want to give you some general tips for the interviews. So, the first tip is to try to not ramble on. You don't want to go into too much detail. You want to make sure that you are as cohesive with your answers as possible. At the same time, you want to make sure that you use real-life

examples when it's pertinent something that we use at Google for different things is called star so it stands for situation task action and result and what that means is basically you're using that framework to structure your answers in a way that's almost like a story right so one example for a situation is people are not clicking on the install button in The Details page for the App Store so the task that was given let's say that for me my task was to figure out how to improve the UI of the detail spage in the App Store to improve the conversion rate for the install button and then the action is basically you explaining the process that you took how did you solve the problem who did you work with and then finally you want to explain what was the result so what was the outcome of all the work that you did did you improve the conversion rate did you impr improve the click-through rate did you learn something specifically was the project launch this is a

great way for you to basically frame the story in your head and then being able to convey it to the interviewer in a way that is both actionable but also memorable and easy to understand. Another tip that I wanted to share is to, I don't want to say like try to be confident in the interview because the reality is that most of us get nervous, right? I mean, you don't want to show up and being all scared and not being able to answer questions, but just try to be yourself, be honest, and if this is a company that you're really excited about, build that connection with the person that's interviewing you. Ask questions. You should think about this interview as not just them interviewing you, but you also interviewing the company. You want to make sure that you ask them about the culture of the company. You want to make sure that you ask them about what's their design process, what are the resources for designers, how mature is the design department in the company. You want to leave

with an understanding that this company would be a good fit for you, and the only way to do that is by asking the interviewer questions as well. Another tip is to practice active listening. Listen to the interviewer when they're talking to you so you can respond to them with the most relevant answer possible and show them that you can listen and that you can pay attention. Actually, the idea of active listening is that you also get out of your head, and you can focus on the interviewer instead of focusing on yourself and if you're feeling nervous. So, that's one strategy to also make yourself feel more at ease, is to really focus on the person interviewing you and not so much on yourself. Also, another tip is to feel free to take time to think. I know that in the moment we want to respond as fast as possible, but something that is completely acceptable is to let the interviewer know to give you a second to pull your thoughts together and really think about the question and

come up with the best answer that is totally fine. You don't have to blurt out something; you can take a pause, let the interviewer know, and take some time to think about what you want to say. Another tip is to go into the interview having researched the company. You want to make sure that they know the company because you will definitely be asked why you want to work here, and that's definitely going to be a question. You want to make sure that you somehow align your own values and your interests with the values and the goals of the company, and that's something that you can bring up when they ask you why do you want to work here. So, I just gave you all of these examples for the interview questions, tips on how to manage yourself and the interview, and also a framework for how to structure your answers. So, I think you're ready to go ahead and apply for your internship or your roles. So, go ahead and check out my video on how to apply for a UX internship or my playlist on

How to prepare yourself for an entry-level role in UX design. I'll see you in the next video. Bye.

UX/UI Interview Questions with Answers & Tips! (from a Google UX Designer)

Ricardo Hernandez Perez

이 채널의 구독자 수는 700명을 넘어 1,000명을 앞두고 있으며, 수익 창출을 위해 시청자들이 동영상을 시청해 달라는 요청을 하고 있습니다.

이 연사는 면접에서 자신을 드러내고 관계를 구축하는 것이 중요하다는 점을 강조하는 동시에 지원자들이 회사의 문화와 디자인 프로세스에 대해 질문하도록 독려합니다.

연사는 요구사항이 불분명한 프로젝트 작업의 어려움과 문제를 정의하고 해결책을 찾기 위해 다른 사람들과 협력하는 것의 중요성에 대해 이야기합니다.

면접에서 포트폴리오 질문 탐색하기

면접관은 포트폴리오의 특정 프로젝트에 대해 질문할 수 있으며, 지원자에게 프로젝트와 자신의 역할, 배운 점을 요약해달라고 요구할 수 있습니다.

직면한 문제와 그 문제를 어떻게 해결했는지, 그리고 다르게 해결했다면 어떻게 했을지에 대해 이야기할 준비를 하세요.

일반적인 소개 질문에는 면접관에게 자신과 디자인에 입문한 여정에 대해 이야기하는 것이 포함될 수 있으므로 간결하게 소개하고 관련 기술을 강조할 수 있도록 준비하세요.

갈등 처리 및 디자인 의견 불일치에 대한 행동 질문을 예상하여 감성 지능과 갈등 해결 능력을 보여주세요.

"자기소개" 질문에서 지원자와 회사를 연결시켜주는 독특한 배경과 경험을 강조하세요.

사전에 회사에 대해 조사하여 본인의 가치와 관심사를 회사의 가치와 일치시키고, 질문에 답하기 전에 충분한 시간을 갖고 생각하세요.

사용자 조사는 종종 저평가되어 디자인 작업에 통합하는 것에 대한 의문이 제기됩니다.

학습 실험과 A/B 테스트에서 얻은 데이터는 디자인 솔루션에 정보를 제공하고 개선하는 데 사용할 수 있습니다.

사용자 조사가 디자인 결정에 미치는 영향을 강조하고 유기적인 인터뷰 질문에 대비하는 것이 성공을 위한 핵심 전략입니다.

면접관에게 질문하는 것은 회사가 자신에게 적합한지 판단하는 데 매우 중요합니다.

적극적으로 경청하는 연습을 하면 적절한 답변을 하고 긴장을 완화하는 데 도움이 될 수 있습니다.

답변하기 전에 시간을 들여 생각하고 준비하는 것도 성공적인 면접 경험에 도움이 될 수 있습니다.

엔트리 레벨 UX 디자인 역할 준비하기

STAR 프레임워크(상황, 과제, 행동, 결과)를 사용하면 면접 시 스토리텔링 형식으로 답변을 구성하는 데 도움이 될 수 있습니다.

더블 다이아몬드와 같이 널리 사용되는 디자인 프로세스 프레임워크에 익숙해지면 일반적인 디자인 프로세스에 대한 이해도를 보여줄 수 있습니다.

패턴과 트렌드를 찾는 능력을 표현할 수 있다면 해당 직무에서 효과적으로 기여할 수 있는 잠재력을 보여줄 수 있습니다.