Solving Product Design Exercises: Questions & Answers

What will you learn from this book

Prepare for the design interview — prepare for the design exercise and learn more about how tech companies hire product designers.

Improve your portfolio — use product challenges to showcase in your porfolio instead of unsolicited visual redesigns.

Step up your design career — practice your product design skills to become a better designer and prepare for your next career move.

Interview designers — learn how to interview designers to evaluate their skills in the most efficient and scalable way.

What’s inside?

A 7-step framework for solving product design exercises

30+ examples of exercises used by Google, WeWork etc.

5 full solutions for product design exercises

5 short interviews with design leaders

Including advice from:

Bobby Ghoshal
Co-host of High Resolution podcast, co-founder of Candid Co, former Head of Design and Growth at WeWork.
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Mia Blume
Design leadership coach. Former Design Lead at Pinterest, Square and IDEO.
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Justin Maxwell
Co-founder at Smith.ai, former design lead and manager at Apple, Google, and Mint.com/Intuit.
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Helen Tran
Former Design Lead at Shopify, running a design mentorship program.
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Joel Califa
Senior Product Designer at GitHub, former Design Lead at Digital Ocean.
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Who should read this book?

Entry-level designers

Learn and practice skills that are needed to get hired by the top companies
Prepare for design interviews
Build your portfolio with problem-solving projects to become more appealing to the top employers.

Mid-level and senior designers

Step up your career and learn to interview designers
Prepare for an interview at your next job.

Business owners

Learn how to interview your first designer
Understand what mindset the most valuable designers should have to define the design role at their organisation.

Other professionals (product managers, engineers, data scientists etc.)

Learn to ask the right questions to make better product decisions.
Learn how designers think to collaborate with them more efficiently.

About the author

Hey! My name is Artiom Dashinsky and I'm a product designer based in Tel Aviv and Berlin. Most recently I led the design of multiple products at WeWork and prior to that I worked with startups building their products and design culture.

Previous products I built for the design community are used by tens of thousands of designers working at companies like Google, Airbnb, Netflix and Boeing. Products I built or designed are featured in Wired, TechCrunch, Forbes, Quartz, Smashing Magazine, Awwwards and more.

You can reach me on Twitter or email.

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Product Design Exercises We Use At WeWork Interviews

Before starting to write this book I shared publicly the design exercises we used to interview designers at WeWork. Now it's used by designers to practice their product skills, build a portfolio and prepare for interviews. Some of them reached out to me to say they didn't know how to approach this kind of task, which made me even more confident that this topic should be taken to the next level. Feel free to use this resource until I finish writing the book.