What would you do if a company sent you a design exercise that was related to their product?
As you work for a design consultancy they may be asking for execution and more practical solutions as consultancies typically aren’t skilled at that. They may also be trying to see if you have domain knowledge or can quickly learn. I doubt they would steal your concepts - easier to hire you.
It’s unfair to ask someone to design a product when they’re unfamiliar with it, and you have a lot of domain knowledge and experience working on it. The designer might make an incorrect assumption, and even if they state it, the solution won’t look as good to an evaluator who knows that’s not the right solution. Also, this is not representative of a healthy designer-team relationship. Instead, you should be starting from a place of similar familiarity. If I wanted the job, I would just do the challenge. But once I joined, I would try to get them to change.
Oh God, thank you for saying that. I had experiences of being asked super open ended questions ("design this major platform, please sketch an interface") by a PM of a major company. I actually don't even think it's the job of a designer to come with "one great solution" but to actually explore multiple venues that would be satisfying to the different stakeholders and be able to do an analysis of pros and cons for each of them. I actually don't think that this approach will bring you good talent, or at least I'm not sure it's currently bringing it in my company.
Designers shouldn’t make assumptions, that is part of the exercise.
Yeah it really shouldnt be direct work. I had a startup ask for this. I elected not to continue with the exercise. They basically asked me to design their consumer product (which wasmt public yet).
Put your copyright on every page. They are exposed legally because if they produce anything close to what you share, you can claim ownership. The designers giving out these assignments are clueless and legal has no idea they’re doing it.
Do it and sue the fuck out of them is they don't hire you and use your design.
LinkedIn does it, it’s really weird
Blizzard does it too.
I know ideo does this and they shouldn't.
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It's not right, I hate when companies do that. They should pick an exercise that evaluates your skills without looking like it's free work for them. But if you want the job, I guess you have to do it?