Interview practice
Graphic designer: interview practice
Graphic design interviews tend to probe the thinking behind your work, how you take a brief and feedback, and how your designs serve an audience.
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Commonly asked in this field
Questions commonly asked in interviews for this field, not by any particular company. Your practice interview mixes questions like these with questions from your own résumé.
- 01Walk me through a project in your portfolio from brief to final design.
- 02How do you approach a brief that is vague?
- 03Tell me about a time a client or stakeholder rejected your design.
- 04How do you decide on typography and color for a new project?
- 05How do you handle feedback you don't agree with?
- 06Describe a project where you had a tight deadline or limited budget.
- 07How do you know whether a design worked?
What the interviewer listens for
From the rubric Hmmlo uses for this job family.
Craft
Clear reasons for your design decisions, from layout to type to color.
Process
Research, iteration and constraints, and how you got from first idea to final.
Collaboration
You work well with clients and teams and can take critique.
Impact
You connect the design to the audience, the brief and a result.
One tip
For each portfolio piece, be ready to say what the brief was, one decision you made and why, and what happened after it went out.
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