Design
AI interviews for product, UX and visual designers
Talk through your real design work with an AI interviewer. See your results first, with the quotes behind every score, and choose who sees them.
- Free for experts
- About 15 minutes, whenever you like
- Type or speak. No camera needed
Who it's for
For people who work in design
Product, UX, UI, visual and brand design, and design research.
Example roles
- Product designer
- UX designer
- UI designer
- Visual designer
- Brand designer
- UX researcher
- Design systems designer
When you apply, you can name your exact specialty. The interviewer fits its questions to it.
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The interview
What the 15-minute interview covers
A conversation about your own work, not trivia. Questions usually start with something you worked on recently, dig into what made it hard, and may end with a realistic situation from your field. Each question follows up on what you said.
Topics the interviewer draws on
- A design they shipped and what changed for users
- User research that changed their mind
- Critique or feedback that was hard to hear
- Balancing user needs against business or technical limits
- Accessibility and inclusive design decisions
- Building or working within a design system
- Handing work to engineering and what got lost
It picks what fits your specialty. It does not read these out as a list.
How your answers are scored
After the interview, an AI model reads your transcript and looks for evidence in four areas. Each area is scored from 1 to 100 only when it can quote your own words.
Design problem solving
Problems, options, measured results
Counts as evidence when the candidate describes a specific design problem, what caused it, the options they explored, a trade-off, or how they measured whether the design worked.
Craft and design decisions
Flows, hierarchy, accessibility, research
Counts as evidence when the candidate describes concrete design decisions: user flows, layout, hierarchy, interaction, accessibility, visual system or research methods, and why they chose them.
Communication
Critiques, reviews, presenting work
Counts as evidence when the candidate describes presenting or explaining design work to other people: critiques, design reviews, specs, prototypes, or walking stakeholders through a decision. Answering clearly is not, by itself, communication evidence.
Collaboration
Engineers, product, users, feedback
Counts as evidence when the candidate describes working with other people: engineers, product managers, researchers, users or stakeholders, including handling feedback and disagreement. Saying "we" is not, by itself, collaboration evidence.
If your answers do not cover an area, it shows Not enough evidence instead of a low score. Scores come only from the words in your transcript. Your face, voice and accent are never scored.
Practice
Three example practice questions
These come from the practice room for design. In the real interview, questions follow up on your own answers, so yours will be different.
- Question 1
Tell me about a design you shipped, the problem it solved, and what you personally decided.
- Question 2
Imagine usability testing shows people can't find the main action on your screen. What do you change first?
- Question 3
How would you defend a design decision to a stakeholder who strongly prefers a different direction?
No account needed. Practice answers are not saved.
After the interview
What you get
Your results, first
Read your transcript and your scores in Design problem solving, Craft and design decisions, Communication, and Collaboration, with the quotes behind each one. An area without enough evidence says so.
Share links you control
Share your result with a link only when you want to. You decide who gets it, and you can turn the link off at any time.
Company interview links
If a company sends you its own interview link, you see the company and the role, and agree to share that interview with them before you start. You see the same result they see.
Free, with retakes
Experts never pay. You can retake the interview up to 3 times, and your newest result replaces the one before it. If a technical problem cuts an interview short, you can get a free retake.
How data is stored, used and deleted is in our privacy policy.
FAQ
Questions from product, UX and visual designers
What will the AI interviewer ask me about?
Your own design work. Questions usually start with something you worked on recently and dig into what made it hard. Later questions may give you a realistic situation from your field or a hard choice to make. Each question follows up on what you said. There are no trick puzzles.
How is the interview scored for design?
After the interview, an AI model reads your transcript and looks for evidence in four areas: Design problem solving, Craft and design decisions, Communication, and Collaboration. An area gets a score from 1 to 100 only when the model can quote your own words for it. Otherwise it says "Not enough evidence" instead of guessing. Your face, voice and accent are never scored.
Do I have to share confidential details?
No. The interviewer is told not to ask for names or confidential details about clients, patients, students or employers, and to let you describe situations without identifying anyone. Describe unreleased work in general terms.
Can I show my portfolio during the interview?
Not during the interview itself. It is a conversation, so you describe your work in words, and scores come only from what you say. You can add a portfolio link to your profile when you apply.
Is this a certification or a license check?
No. An Aethel interview is not a certification, license or credential, and it does not verify degrees or licenses. It is a record of how you talked about your own work in one interview.
Who sees my results?
You see your results first. A company sees an interview only if you took it through that company's interview link. Anyone else sees a result only through a share link or a PDF verification code you make. If you turn on your Find experts profile, anyone can see your name, field, specialty, and area scores, but never your transcript or contact details. You can turn off a share link, a code, or your Find experts profile at any time. You can delete your interview records at any time from your profile page.
Is it free, and can I retake it?
Yes, it is free for experts. You can retake the interview up to 3 times from your results page, and your newest result replaces the one before it. If a technical problem cut an interview short, your results page offers a free retake that does not count toward the 3. If it does not, ask for a review. An interview taken through a company's link is taken once.
Can I practice first?
Yes. The practice room uses sample questions for design and saves nothing. You do not need an account to try it.
More detail: how interviews work
Ready when you are
Apply in a few minutes, then interview whenever it suits you. You decide who sees your results.
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