Great advice! I've used that interview question before -- "what's an app you like? what would you change about its design?" -- but dig the idea of extending that into a trial project.

Did not know 'Memphis' was a design movement, had seen that pattern called memphis before (under Domain) and had to look it up... can't even be mad, I fuckin learned something.

http://blog.linedandunlined.com/post/404171838/on-memphis-pattern-and-macpaint

Completely agreed.

Really interesting, sold on the idea of using real product challenges (mentioned by another commenter here) but increasingly sold sending existing design work!

Would hopefully give the candidate confidence they're not being taken advantage of, definite benefit. Would also love to see what they do with our existing stylesheet. Thanks Ale!

Considered something like this, but hadn't thought of an online drawing tool... great idea.

Really interesting -- thanks Jerome! Great advice.

So jealous of Chorus... great advice, important to think in patterns you can pull from and reuse: http://patternlab.io/