Behavioral

Give an example of a scenario when you and the product owner did not agree on a product design decision and they chose to not go with your idea.

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Amazon

Mapbox

Evernote

Cruise

Bolt

Arm

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Answers

Anonymous

7 months ago
3.6Strong
I needed to create and entry point into a form filling process where the user would first select a product based on which the form would follow. I wanted to go ahead with providing with a radio selection since we did not have selections to choose from. this would have all the option upfront and save one extra click in the process. The product owner felt it was more reasonble to use a dropdown selection in this case. Since it was hard coming to a seleciton, we creation both the design and did a guerilla testing with a wider audience. On doing that we had a vote system on what work better and based on the votes we decided to go with the radio selection process. I not only achieved trust on my desing decisions but also a wider perspective from different people

Anonymous

7 months ago
3.4Strong
When I designed an interactive tree map and it did not fit the timeline alloted for development and I had to reiterate on the design and make something more feasible that could be developed more quickly so I leveraged existing components 
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Interview question asked to UX Designers interviewing at Comcast, Highspot, Qualcomm and others: Give an example of a scenario when you and the product owner did not agree on a product design decision and they chose to not go with your idea..