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

Presented by Seattle Women of Design & UX in collaboration with School of Visual Concepts: https://www.svcseattle.com/

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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 (virtually!). 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 feedback & instruction. https://forms.gle/xTNdvskJ3S1tVvmk9

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

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SCHEDULE

5:30-5:35pm: Welcome
5:35-5:45pm: Presentation
5:45-5:55pm: Live demo
5:55pm-6:30pm: Try it yourself in breakout rooms
6:30-6:45pm: Q&A

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PANELISTS

Kristen Kite
Kristen is a Senior Product Designer at Detroit Labs. She has designed products for enterprise users at companies such as Duo Security, GE, and Google, morphing complex, technical environments into intuitive and human-centered experiences. She is also a UX educator, and teaches designers at Amazon and Seattle's School of Visual Concepts skills in influencing, articulating design decisions, and design thinking.

Caryn Wille
Caryn is a Senior UX Designer & UX Manager at Google, working on Google Cloud Platform. Since 2011, Caryn has 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 and business goals. With a focus on storytelling and clear communication, she helps teams hone in on designing the right thing before bringing experiences to life.

She is also the co-founder of Seattle Women of Design & UX Meetup and co-host of the limited podcast series UX of You: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ux-of-you/id1476322309