I wrote a book to help designers prepare for job interviews (productdesigninterview.com)
over 5 years ago from Artiom Dashinsky, Product Designer, Author & Maker
over 5 years ago from Artiom Dashinsky, Product Designer, Author & Maker
Hey DN!
I’m super excited to share my book with you today! It’s goal is to help designers prepare for job interviews, practice their skills beyond aesthetics and help companies improve their hiring process.
I believe there is not enough resources for designers to prepare for job interviews (unlike engineers/PMs) and they often don’t know what to expect from the interview. In addition they usually over-focused on the visual skills and don't have tools to practice the "product" part of product design.
I decided to share my experience of hiring designers and my first step was sharing the exercises we used for hiring at WeWork (https://blog.prototypr.io/product-design-exercises-we-use-at-wework-interviews-2ee1f5a57319). The feedback I received was great. After talking to both designers and employees I decided to write this book that will help designers to practice their skills, prepare for job interviews and eventually build better products.
The book features short interviews with design leaders who worked and led design teams at companies like Apple, Google, Pinterest, Square, IDEO, GitHub etc.
You can read more about the story behind the book here: https://productdesigninterview.com/story.html.
Thank you!
Thanks so much Artiom! I just purchased this now, and am looking forward to reading through it all. I appreciate your hard work putting this together.
Thank you Rhys! :)
Great work! Love the clean cover design and layout of the site.
Thank you Craig!
Looks awesome! Attempting to apply the coupon code for the 15% discount...is the code = designernews
That didn't seem to work for me. Thanks!
Please use this one: V83PXAP928X3
Just purchased, thanks!
Neither one worked for me.
Hey Arthur,
The original one is expired and the second one was for Keith :)
Please use this one: F0ZK87N4X71N.
Thanks!
May I also get a code please?
Here you go: T893JAQFBPZC
I think loading someone up with 150 pages of info would just confuse and imtimidate them before an interview. With pretty much everyone I've hired, they've gotten the job because of their portfolio.
Just wanted to edit this to say I think you've still done a nice job and all that, it just seems like a bit of information overload.
I'm not sure you have understood what the intention of this book is.
I'm reading it myself to expand on my understanding of product thinking, and product design interview processes from both sides. I've found interviewing to be about more than just a candidates portfolio - but each to their own I guess.
He wrote a book to help designers prepare for job interviews so I assumed the book would be about giving designers advice for interviewing for jobs
Have you actually looked at the website? - https://productdesigninterview.com/
It sounds like you are only reading the title of this post, and making an assumption of what it is.
Yeah I skimmed the website before. I guess i took the wrong things away from it. My bad - I had a better look now and it does indeed look like a pretty sweet book.
The portfolio should make you interested, but I'm sure you take the designer's personality in mind as well?
Great resource, just purchased
Oh, thanks, let's read something new. I hope.
Awesome! need to put my hands on it :)
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