For select product designer candidates, we offer you the chance to take a design challenge. We’ll give you a $300 Amazon gift card as a thank you which you will receive whether we offer you a position or not. Only candidates who are invited to take this challenge will receive the gift card.
Below, you can select from one of the challenges. Keep in mind that this allows us to see how you work, how you think and how quickly you can design. Please don’t exceed the constraints listed for each.
Note: these are not in any intentional order
Seeing is believing
Overview
Eyeglasses come in many shapes, sizes, brands, looks, colors, lens types, frame materials and finishes. Searching for the right pair can be tricky and fun. It’s a very personal decision and hard to properly visualize the outcome.
Challenge
Design a product that lets a user find the glasses they want in the fewest number of clicks while still considering the largest corpus of eyeglass data available. For a sample data set, you might use https://www.glassesusa.com/. Consider all the decisions a user needs to make: size, style, shape, color, clear/sun, purpose (reading, driving, etc), brand. And, consider the user may need to virtually “try on” the glasses. How would you help them navigate this set to a decision?
Constraints
- Spend no more than 4 hours on this end-to-end
- Target desktop web app over mobile
Messenger madness
Overview
Messenger apps are everywhere now. We’re using them across many different platforms and uses. But how do all my communications with these different companies fit together? Am I asking the same questions across different channels? Am I getting similar answers? Is there a way to make use of these overlapping communications if I could visualize the information?
Challenge
Imagine a messenger feature that helps users visualize and manage their collected communications across all the channels they use for messaging: Instagram, SnapChat, iMessage, Slack, Zoom chat, Skype, Teams, FB Messenger and all those one-off customer service messaging apps they use on various websites to get product information and help/support. Is there a simple way to unify those communications and make sense of them?
Constraints
- Spend no more than 4 hours on this end-to-end
- Target desktop web app over mobile
6 degrees of Gmail
Overview
Imagine you’re working with Google on a new Gmail feature that helps users visualize the connections between the people who email them. This feature displays a diagram of all the people the user has received email from and have sent email to so they can visualize the degrees of separation between them.
Challenge
Keying off the email addresses in a user’s inbox (receive and send), find a method and a visualization that shows the relationships between these people so you can discover connections that may have been hidden. Consider other public and paid data sources that may help to enrich this data (LinkedIn, FB, others). Maybe you’ll add the ability to add notes, fix mistakes, zoom in and out, re-organize and append with people they may know but don’t have email for in their inbox. Consider what actions the user can take to make the insights gathered by these connections valuable.
Constraints
- Spend no more than 4 hours on this end-to-end
- Target desktop web app over mobile
Two chefs are better than one
Overview
Chefs and people who love to cook need to invent new recipes to fill all those online and printed recipe books we all know and love and buy. What if there was a recipe-design app that helped people collaboratively design new recipes? This new app lets many people co-develop a recipe together online.
Challenge
Design a concept wireframe/prototype of this app. Imagine it will be a web-based application with multiple device support. Perhaps most users will choose to use the app on their tablet, laptop or phone. Features may include: starter recipes, food search, collaborative canvas, recipe versioning, calorie counting and more.
Constraints
- Spend no more than 4 hours on this end-to-end
- Target desktop web app over mobile
Two thousand facets
Overview
Faceted search revolutionized how people navigate complex product catalogs. Surfacing the array of properties shared by many similar products allowed users to navigate through large data sets by either eliminating or adding facets that were or were not relevant to them. This had the effect of telescoping the data set so users could see the salient items they may be looking for.
Challenge
When working with large data sets, any single facet can contain thousands of individual terms. How would you design a facet concept that can handle 2,000 terms for a single facet/category? Pick a domain to model with a large data set that’s well classified (computers, chemistry, real estate, automotive, other?). Keep in mind the need to balance data discovery with data education. In other words, if the solution allows the user to search for a facet, that only works if the user knows the facet is there to search for: how do you inform the user of all of their options (explore) while also letting them find exactly what they know is there (find)?
Constraints
- Spend no more than 4 hours on this end-to-end
- Target desktop web app over mobile
Beyond Compare
Overview
When searching for the right product, it’s often important to visualize multiple products that are similar but not exactly matching. This helps the user see what features each product shares and which that set them apart.
Challenge
Design a simple compare feature for nike.com that allows users to compare products listed on the site and present your recommended experience including your process/thinking and some interface design. Assume our UX research team has asked you to prepare a simple compare feature concept that will add value to the business and buyer experience that they can quickly test with users to get feedback and surface additional features/ideas. Feel free to add your own inspiration to make it valuable.
Who
All consumers ages 12-65 across men, women, unisex, and kids. Ensure less tech-savvy users will understand how to use the feature
Constraints
- Spend no more than 4 hours on this end-to-end
- Target desktop web app over mobile
- no need to recreate the existing nike.com UI, use wireframes or screenshots