Design Advocacy and Influence Questions
Focuses on championing user centered practices and design thinking inside an organization. Includes building buy in for user research, influencing product and engineering stakeholders with evidence and narrative, making the business case for user focus, changing processes to embed research, teaching non designers to use research outputs, handling resistance and trade offs between speed and rigor, measuring the impact of advocacy, and strategies for incrementally growing research and design culture across teams.
MediumTechnical
25 practiced
For an upcoming cross-functional product launch (product, engineering, sales, marketing), create a stakeholder mapping and engagement plan that ensures research findings are integrated into the launch decisions. Include communication cadence, ownership, and two measurable success criteria tied to the launch.
HardTechnical
20 practiced
The CEO asks you to justify a 30% budget increase to expand research headcount and tooling. Prepare an executive-level memo outline (not the full memo) with six sections: executive summary, problem, proposed investment, expected outcomes, risks and mitigations, and the request. For each section list the 2–3 most important bullet points you would include.
EasyTechnical
40 practiced
List five signals that should trigger escalation of research findings to senior leadership rather than resolving them at the team level. For each signal, provide a short justification and an example of what escalation could look like (who to involve and a possible message).
HardTechnical
25 practiced
Propose policies and a decision-making framework to handle conflicts between business pressure (hard launch deadlines, sales commitments) and ethical research practices (informed consent, privacy, deception). Include escalation paths and draft one example policy for a high-stakes scenario where sales demands a usability experiment that may push privacy boundaries.
EasyTechnical
24 practiced
Design a 30-minute hands-on training exercise to teach non-designers how to interpret raw interview quotes and extract three actionable insights. Outline the workshop steps, the materials needed, time allocation, and a 5-minute debrief format that ties outcomes to product actions.
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