Rock the Whiteboard: A UX Interview Crash Course

During an onsite interview, companies will often ask you to do off the cuff sketches to give them a better idea of how you approach design solutions. These live whiteboarding prompts are one of the most intimidating aspects of an Interaction Design interview, and if you’ve never done one before, it can be hard to know how to prepare.

Join us for an intimate event to learn from professional women in UX how to rock your whiteboard interview. We will start with a presentation that covers the ins and outs of what interviewers are looking for when they watch you whiteboard, and why this is a critical skill for any Interaction Designer.

After this brief presentation, audience members will pull surprise prompts from a hat and our panelists will do live, improvisational whiteboard demos to show how thinking aloud, understanding the problem, and rapidly ideating a solution on the whiteboard is key to highlighting the problem solving skills you can bring to the table. The event will wrap up with an audience Q & A for the panelists.

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SCHEDULE

6:00-6:30pm: Mingling
6:30-6:45pm: Presentation
6:45pm-7:15pm: Live whiteboarding
7:15-7:30pm: Q&A
7:30-8:00pm: More mingling and meet and greet time with the panelists

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PANELISTS

Cheryl Couris
Cheryl is an Interaction Designer at Google and UX instructor at SVC. Before working on security UX for the Google Cloud Platform, Cheryl spent 5 years at Microsoft as a UX Designer and Senior Design Manager.

Caryn Wille
Caryn is an Interaction Designer at Google working on Google Cloud Platform. Since 2011, she’s been helping companies from startups to medical associations to operas to telecom providers architect and design experiences that nest into the cross section of user needs, business goals, and technical limitations.

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SCHOOL OF VISUAL CONCEPTS (SVC)

Huge thanks to School of Visual Concepts for hosting and sponsoring this event!

SVC helps career-changers, career-starters, and career-havers develop their skills in marketing, branding, graphic design, UX, UI, software, content creation, and letterpress printing. They offer a mix of evening classes, certificate programs, corporate training programs, and half-day and full-day workshops, all taught by top working pros and all filled with practical training.
www.svcseattle.com