Rock the Whiteboard: A UX Interview Crash Course (+ try it yourself!)

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 a design interview, and if you’ve never done one before, it can be hard to know how to prepare.

Join us 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 designer.

After this brief presentation, our presenters 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.

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Audience volunteers will also have the opportunity to do a practice session of their own to put the lessons learned immediately into practice. Please fill out this form if you'd be interested in being paired with a UX professional after the presentation to whiteboard your own practice prompt and get 1:1 feedback & instruction. https://forms.gle/Y59G9SZFzbhusL916

This will be completely optional, but we encourage you to give it a try!

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The event will wrap up with an audience Q&A for the presenters, plus a chance to hear any lessons learned from our audience volunteers.

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SCHEDULE

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

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PANELISTS

Kristen Brews
Kristen is an Interaction Designer at Google. She started her UX career at General Electric, where she was one of the first designers on the internal UX team at GE Healthcare. She introduced design thinking concepts and workshops to level-up the existing software design process, eventually teaching 350+ GE employees the principles and practical approaches to design thinking. Kristen has designed products for enterprise users ranging from medical field engineers to executive IT leadership program participants.

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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DIRECTIONS / PARKING

Axon is located in Metropolitan Park West (1100 Olive Way, 98101), Suite 1300.

Parking is available in the building's garage. You will enter the garage from the Minor Avenue side of the building via the driveway labeled “Public Parking.” If this garage is full there is additional parking available is our sister’s buildings garage located directly across the street.