How To Answer The UX Interview Question: What Tools Do You Use For Design?

One of the most common design interview questions is: What tools do you use for Design?

The question might also come in a variety of different forms or expressions like the following:

• What are a few of your favorite design tools and why?
• What is your proficiency level of the listed design tools? Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign.
• If you could name one tool/application/software that you can’t live without (from a design perspective), what would it be, and why?

Why do interviewers almost always ask this question?

It’s an overused interview question, and to be honest, I rarely ask interviewees about what design tools they use. However, it can still be a valuable question for many reasons.

A design team usually has shared design libraries, which contain guidelines and standards that the team members created in certain tools, and maybe template assets they want a new member to go with it and also contribute. That’s why interviewers from the design team would ask about the tools that you use. It’s very important that you agree with the team on this for collaboration.