AI UX Design and Trust
Human in the Loop Design Interview Questions
When a person should review the AI's work, how to decide which cases go to a human, why review fatigue breaks the design, and how to build approval flows for agents.
- 22 questions with model answers
- 1 foundational · 6 intermediate · 15 advanced
Foundational Human in the Loop Design Questions
Intermediate Human in the Loop Design Questions
- What is the difference between human-in-the-loop and human-on-the-loop?Concept
- Explain the risk of a human reviewer who rubber-stamps everything.Concept
- What information does a reviewer need to make a good decision quickly?Concept
- What is the right batch size for human review, and why does it matter?Concept
- What SLA does a human review step impose on the overall product?Calculation
- Describe the onboarding a new reviewer needs to be effective.Case
Advanced Human in the Loop Design Questions
- Design the review interface for a human checking 200 AI-generated outputs an hour.Case
- Explain how review fatigue undermines a human-in-the-loop design.Concept
- How do you decide which cases get routed to a human?Case
- Describe a confidence-based routing policy and its failure mode.Concept
- How do you measure whether the human in the loop is adding value?Case
- Design an approval flow for an agent that sends external emails.Case
- How would you phase out the human as model quality improves?Case
- Critique a design where the human sees only the final output and not the reasoning.Artifact critique
- Describe the labour implications of designing a review queue.Concept
- How do you design so reviewer corrections become training or eval data?Case
- Explain when a human checkpoint is theatre rather than control.Concept
- Design the interface for a user supervising three agents at once.Case
- How does the human-in-the-loop design change for irreversible actions?Concept
- How would you handle disagreement between two human reviewers?Case
- Design a human-in-the-loop flow for a scenario I describe.Interview