"Every designer on my team for the last 29+ years was hired based on their portfolio plus between one and three (maximum) interviews. I find the idea of giving make-believe "exercises" depressing and boring (for me)."

-Michael Beirut

Lately I've been using Twitter more often, and one of my favorite things about it is the immediacy with which brilliant minds can weight in on a topic.

Whether or not design tests are valuable or ethical as a way to interivew designers is a hotly debated topic at my workplace. Having Michael Beirut, among other noted designers, argue this issue over Twitter this week has been immsensely helpful.