Dear Product Designers, this is how you pass your whiteboarding interviews.

Full breakdown from ex-hiring manager, professional facilitator, and a designer who went through the arduous process many times prior.

Thanks Jason for the picture!

So I mentor and give out loads of advice to designers to attain more success in their job hunts. A pattern I’ve noticed for the entirety of 2023 was that the pitfall for most designers, from junior to senior, is passing the white-boarding test.

Happy new year, by the way.

First things first: Failing a whiteboarding test isn’t the end of the world. It’s doesn’t always mean that you’re not good enough.

The only time I failed a whiteboard was when a hiring team didn’t know how whiteboarding was supposed to be done. True story, no salt.

But that being said, I find a lot of designers just sort of following a checklist of tasks to complete instead of meeting the hiring manager’s checklist of techniques we’re looking out for.

I thought enough UX influencers had created a lot of guides on what to look out for and how to be successful at whiteboarding, but after going through these resources…