Interviewers ask me to create a wireframe during my Product Manager interviews. On the job, I usually do UX research and work with designers to iterate on the designs instead of creating a wireframe/UX design from scratch or on the spot. How best to prepare for future interviews? How to successfully answer "Make me a wireframe"?

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Honestly if I asked this and someone used ninja mock or Balsamiq I wouldn't be that impressed. Using those tools you're only demonstrating your prowess with those tools. Personally I prefer pen and paper, a whiteboard or a freehand tool like Invision freehand.

Wireframing is an analysis technique primarily. It's about quickly laying out content and data, exploring possible flows and, ultimately, articulating and overcoming tradeoffs and conflicts. My problem with finessed wireframe tools is that they encourage precision, which in turn encourages attention to the wrong kind of detail at that stage. If you're wireframing you should have no qualms about wiping the whiteboard clear and starting again. The moment you start feeling loss aversion at erasing your work you have effectively stopped trying to explore the challenge.

Go old school.

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Play around in Balsamic or Figma. Practice making a wireframe for something you know, like an app you already use. Or take a quick tutorial. It'll get you familiar with how to use it as a tool. Come interview time, it's really about having an idea of what you want it to look like, then creating that in Balsamic/Figma.
Just like you would with Paint. You know what you want to draw, just gotta know how to do it.

Lots of great resources online, but at the end of the day, my best advice is "practice, practice, practice" until becomes second nature.

I think there are some good suggestions in the thread itself, play around with a wireframe for something you've worked on or an app you like. I don't think they're testing your actual design skills, they want to see your thought process

Iโ€™ve never done that before nor have I asked anyone to do that in my interviews. Whatโ€™s the context? Where do you feel you struggle?

You can have a hypothesis on what a layout/UI/UX should look like. I would expect anyone to be able to wireframe or draw out a layout to communicate what theyโ€™re thinking.

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