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Design tokens for multi-brand button theming
WHAT IT TESTS: token fundamentals and tiered theming. OUTLINE: tokens as named design decisions, primitive-versus-semantic layers, per-brand themes mapping semantic to primitive. RED FLAG: hardcoding hex values per brand instead of a shared semantic token.
End-to-end process for a Modal props API break
WHAT IT TESTS: the full lifecycle of a breaking API change. OUTLINE: justify and design the change, additive rollout with deprecation, major release plus codemod, comms and adoption tracking.
Measuring designer efficiency from Figma data
WHAT IT TESTS: quantifying design-side ROI with real instrumentation. OUTLINE: library component usage and detach rates from Figma, time-to-mockup, override frequency via the API. RED FLAG: measuring only code adoption and ignoring the design tool entirely.
Linking form-component adoption to fewer a11y bugs
WHAT IT TESTS: designing a sound measurement, not just claiming impact. OUTLINE: define both variables, segment by adoption level, control confounders, watch correlation-versus-causation.
Gradual design system adoption in legacy code
WHAT IT TESTS: incremental migration of a large legacy codebase. OUTLINE: coexistence strategy, codemods for mechanical swaps, lint rules to block regressions, prioritize high-traffic surfaces.
Measuring design system adoption and health
WHAT IT TESTS: quantifying adoption with concrete, automatable metrics. OUTLINE: component coverage and version spread from code scans, usage analytics, issue and satisfaction signals.
Technical and comms plan for a Button break
WHAT IT TESTS: pairing technical migration tooling with communication. OUTLINE: additive-first then deprecate, major semver, codemod and guide, multi-channel early comms with adoption tracking.
Critical a11y fix requiring a breaking API change
WHAT IT TESTS: balancing urgent accessibility risk against breaking-change discipline. OUTLINE: ship a safe interim fix, plan the breaking API as a major with deprecation and codemod, communicate urgency.
Design systems across micro-frontends
WHAT IT TESTS: adapting a design system to independently deployed front ends. OUTLINE: shared singletons and version alignment, token-based theming, distribution via shared scopes, stronger governance.
Governance for accessibility regressions
WHAT IT TESTS: a repeatable a11y governance loop across consuming products. OUTLINE: detection via audits and monitoring, triage with severity and ownership, remediation SLAs, prevention feedback.
Automated a11y testing in CI and its limits
WHAT IT TESTS: building a11y checks into CI while knowing their ceiling. OUTLINE: axe-core in unit and story tests, fail the build on violations, plus manual screen-reader and keyboard testing.
Architecting a federated documentation site
WHAT IT TESTS: aggregating docs from many repos into one site. OUTLINE: docs-as-code with a manifest, CI publishing artifacts, a build that pulls and merges, unified deploy. RED FLAG: manually copy-pasting docs between repos with no automated aggregation.
Documenting accessibility per component
WHAT IT TESTS: making accessibility actionable, not a generic page. OUTLINE: per-component a11y sections, keyboard tables, ARIA roles and states, live examples. RED FLAG: one global accessibility page with no component-specific keyboard or ARIA detail.
Composite components versus layout primitives
WHAT IT TESTS: balancing consistency against flexibility in API design. OUTLINE: primitives give flexibility and composition, composites enforce consistency, choose by reuse and variation.
Rolling out a breaking change to a shared Button
WHAT IT TESTS: managing a breaking change in a high-blast-radius component. OUTLINE: major semver bump, deprecation period, codemod and migration guide, staged comms. RED FLAG: forcing an immediate hard cutover with no deprecation window or upgrade tooling.
Versioning and shipping design tokens via NPM
WHAT IT TESTS: package versioning discipline for a shared dependency. OUTLINE: semver, deprecate-before-delete with aliases, codemods and migration guides. RED FLAG: silently renaming tokens and bumping a minor version, breaking every consumer.
How would you track clicks on a new 'Export Data' button?
Tests prod analytics design beyond console.log. Outline: typed event schema, client validation, beacon or queue with batching, and queryable storage. Red flag: fire-and-forget tracking without retry, sampling, or privacy checks.
Outline a research plan to diagnose low adoption despite positive usability tests
Tests distinguishing usability from adoption drivers. Strong answers hypothesize discoverability, motivation, and timing gaps; use behavioral triangulation, contextual inquiry, and surveys. Red flag: blaming users or redesigning before diagnosing the funnel.
How would you secure a moderated screen-sharing session end to end?
WHAT IT TESTS: Privacy architecture for sensitive streaming data and stored artifacts. ANSWER OUTLINE: Cover encrypted WebRTC transport, KMS-backed storage, access controls, PII redaction, and retention policies.
UX researcher finds usability issues in your feature. Your process?
It tests triaging qualitative UX feedback with telemetry and cross-functional collaboration. Reproduce the issue, correlate with logs, isolate UI or backend causes, then co-design a fix via prototype or A/B test.