not_your_mentat

I'm scrubbing around the Internet and can find all sorts of agencies that are happy to build pre-launch sites of dubious provenance, as well as a few write-ups. What's missing is a gallery of startup pre-launch sites. Do you still have screen grabs of your pre-launch site? I'd love to see them and hear your pre-launch war stories.

I'm currently a FE dev working for a company that makes a DB application (basically a fancy CMS for a niche industry). I've worked with great UX designers over the years at different companies but I've never been part of the hiring process for a UX designer.

I've been tasked with being part of the interview process for a UX designer. I've spent a bunch of time interviewing devs and being interviewed and I have a pretty good sense (as much as anyone, I suppose) for how to interview FE devs, but I've never been in the loop for hiring UX.

I know what's important to me as a FE dev and I'm senior enough that I have a bit of a sense of what's important to the company. That being said, I'm at the end of the hiring line and I've probably got 60 minutes max with each candidate. That's not a lot of time to secure good signal.

So, this is where I turn to you, dear people of Earth. Given my constraints, how do I best prep and deliver 60 minutes of human connection as an dev who loves design with (hopefully) a designer who's doing the thing?