Design exercises are evil

How design job candidates can avoid them and how managers can hire more effectively without them.

Eric Burns
UX Collective
Published in
11 min readMay 12, 2020

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A little figurine of a devil
Photo by Jay Short on Unsplash

It was the final round of interviews. Or, so the candidate thought.

She’d spent all day interviewing in our office. As the final interviewer, I walked her out the building. She seemed confident and asked, “How quickly will I hear

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