Assessing designers in a real Figma file
Hiring · 6 min · June 4, 2026 · by Nour Hassan
Why we replaced toy canvases with real Figma files — and how reviewers grade them inline.
You can't judge a designer with a drawing widget nobody uses in real life. So the UI/UX engine dropped its built-in canvas and moved to the tool designers actually work in: Figma.
Design where they already live
The author links a starter Figma file set to "anyone with the link can duplicate." The candidate opens it, designs their solution in real Figma with real components, and marks the question complete — exactly how the job works.
Graded inline, against a rubric
Reviewers don't leave Qexlify. The candidate's file renders in an inline Figma embed right in the submission review, next to your grading rubric — visual hierarchy, spacing, accessibility, whatever you set. No screenshots, no context-switching.
Give a designer the real tool and a real brief, and the portfolio grades itself.
Nour Hassan
The same idea, everywhere
It's the through-line of every Qexlify engine: real environment, real task, objective review. For network questions the same principle gives candidates a topology builder or a Packet Tracer / GNS3 upload — always the real thing, never a toy.