Become ridiculously good at interviewing for product design roles in 4 weeks. You’ll take a hands-on approach, use proven strategies, learn from industry experts, and get personalized 1:1 mentorship to help you succeed in your next design interview at any company.
By Ben George
Ben George
Ben George has a proven track record of hiring, mentoring, and leading high-performing design teams at Shopify, ReferralCandy, and FreshMenu. He’s built products for Intel, Coca-Cola, MIT Sloan, General Electric, and the US Army. Some apps have more than 10 million downloads and have even been staff picked by Apple and Google. He's been mentoring and coaching designers to help them unlock growth and level up in their careers for over a decade.
A UX case study is most likely one of the first things your potential hiring managers see. With tons of UXers in the market, you need to zig when others zag to get noticed. Most designers let themselves down by using a standard template that doesn’t help showcase their skills, play to their strengths or use the right fidelity for their online portfolio.
Learn critical ingredients to a successful online portfolio
Deconstruct design portfolios from some of the best designers today
Evaluate your strengths, areas of interest
Identify projects that best reflect your skills
Write 1 case study and publish it online
The portfolio presentation is a critical first interview you'll do in the interview loop. It's time to demonstrate that you can do the work. These 1-hour meetings in a room full of strangers can induce anxiety, end up being a boring monologue and cause easy-to-avoid mistakes. Give your future hiring managers a reason to bat for you.
Understand what makes a good portfolio presentation
Gain perspective into what signals hiring managers are looking for
How to craft a good narrative
Avoid repeating the most common mistakes 90% of other designers make
Create your portfolio presentation for 1 project
It has become the industry norm to evaluate product designers. It is the most challenging of all interviews since it requires you to solve a problem while thinking aloud with limited time. This is an opportunity for you to give hiring managers an insight into your thinking, approach, and collaboration process. We’ll unpack critical ingredients into an excellent problem-solving exercise, mistakes to avoid, and easy-to-remember frameworks that you can apply.
Understand what hiring managers are assessing in a whiteboard exercise
Learn the simple framework to help you crack any problem-solving exercise
Practice solving live whiteboard exercises.
You're almost finished with the long grind of interviewing and its stress. There's one last hurdle to clear: evaluating and negotiating an offer.
Learn the do's and don'ts in negotiation
Create win-win scenarios
Practice mock salary negotiation scenarios
Ben is an awesome mentor and provided me with extremely valuable insight and feedback to knock my design interviews out of the park!
It's obvious that Ben cares deeply about giving back to our community. He is kind and knowledgeable and generous with his network. I'm grateful for the opportunity to be mentored by him.
Benjamin was incredibly helpful. It was one of the best portfolio review sessions I’ve had, and I will reach back out to him for more guidance on recruiting. He gave me insightful feedback on my portfolio, actionable takeaways I could implement right…
Mentorship with Ben gave me a whole new perspective and confidence in the way I can approach portfolios and presentation decks. He was super helpful and patient in explaining all the questions I had. He also showed me different practical examples whi…
I met Ben during a very critical time in my career. I was in the middle of a "growth sprint" for myself where I was focused on upgrading my design knowledge. Ben introduced me to some practical ways in which I can utilize design systems in a burgeoni…
Out of all the workshops I have attended, Ben is one of the most skilled mentors. Not only was he impeccable with his teaching methods and his capability to encourage a lively discussion, but he was also extremely polite and approachable. He made s…
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