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Hi! I have an Amazon whiteboard UX challenge coming up very soon. Has anyone recently interviewed with them and could provide insights on the prompts? Would using paper and pen be better than Invision Freehand? #design #interviews #ui/ux #amazon #whiteboard
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I went through it fairly recently and passed. I used Figjam for everything. Happy to offer insight beyond that, if you’d like.
Thanks a lot. Would love to learn from your experience. Will DM you.
Hello! What was the challenge question they asked you?
Amazon has their own digital white boarding tool (a few), so you might use that. Any digital tool is good, though - as long as it’s super easy for you to share with them and you can navigate it comfortably). I’d have paper and marker (think sharpee for clarity across video) as a back up. I’d also suggest doing pre work on both the digital and physical/paper whiteboards, so you have an outline ready to move through once you get a prompt. But go with the flow and don’t feel locked into your outline if collaboration takes you elsewhere. Good luck.
Thank you so much - that’s very helpful. By pre work, do you mean keeping a template ready? Any idea about the prompt? This would be my first remote whiteboard exercise.
Just how I approach it but yep, an outline (what questions will you ask and notes that you capture before diving into design) and a few templates are useful (maybe setting up a few device surfaces the prompt could lead you into wireframing an experience for). Don’t forget the customer/problem defining conversation; product thinking before diving into a solution (or multiple possible solutions) is important but not to be belabored. Prompts change so don’t get hung up on that. Be ready for something super vague and just start asking questions about the problem, unknowns and possibilities to follow up on later (pretending this is real, not ending after the interview), potential customers, constraints, then get into solutions you could test if it were real. https://uxdesign.cc/5-steps-to-master-a-whiteboard-design-challenge-6ecbe9ec38b7 https://uxplanet.org/a-foolproof-framework-to-conquer-the-whiteboard-challenge-18c481e550b9