Design & User Experience Topics
User experience design, frontend architecture, and design systems. Includes UX principles, accessibility, and design documentation.
Portfolio Project Case Studies
Prepare a set of three to five detailed portfolio case studies that demonstrate breadth and depth across formats, audiences, and technical complexity. For each case study, present the project context and goals, your specific role and team composition, the audience and how you researched their needs, the information architecture and content structure you chose, key design or documentation decisions and tradeoffs, technical challenges you addressed, and the final deliverables or artifacts such as screens, flows, or documentation samples. Quantify outcomes with metrics of success and business or user impact, and reflect on what you would do differently with current knowledge. Use a clear narrative structure such as Situation Task Action Result to explain the problem, your process, the actions you took, and the measurable results. Emphasize strategic thinking, organizational influence, process improvements, mentorship or collaboration contributions, and your ability to simplify complex concepts for target audiences.
Technical Writer Role
Comprehensive understanding of the responsibilities and daily work of technical writers, including planning, creating, and maintaining documentation such as user guides, application programming interface documentation, tutorials, developer guides, help systems, knowledge base articles, and release notes. Candidates should be able to explain audience analysis and persona driven writing, information architecture and content modeling, choice of documentation formats and output channels, and documentation design including navigation, examples, and code samples. The role involves close collaboration with engineers, product managers, designers, support teams, and subject matter experts to gather technical details, perform research, and translate complex technical concepts into clear, accessible content. It also covers editorial standards and style guides, documentation maintenance and review cycles, documentation pipelines and publishing workflows, versioning and change management, localization and accessibility considerations, and use of tooling and automation to generate and publish content. Interviewers may probe for writing craft, clarity and readability strategies, content strategy and measurement, tooling familiarity, contribution to developer experience and onboarding, and concrete examples of how documentation improved user success or knowledge management.
Audience Analysis and Documentation Design
Focuses on identifying and analyzing distinct documentation audiences and designing content to meet their needs. Includes audience segmentation and persona development, mapping user roles such as developers operators end users and managers to their information needs, tailoring tone level of technical detail and content formats, organizing documentation around user tasks and journeys instead of product internal structure, and using research inputs such as interviews surveys analytics and support tickets to prioritize and craft content. Assessment can include concrete examples of adapting installation guides API references tutorials and troubleshooting content for different audiences.