Workout?

lately I been to some job interviews and I was asked in some to present some of my work.
Have any of you UI people ever been asked that?
I am always trying to figure out what “show us some of your work” means for me.

I guess there are 3 ways my work can be presented:

heuristic evaluation, wireframe design and a complete product.
Each of these is lacking .

1. Heuristic evaluation - above all, heuristic evaluation is trash talking some other guys work. It is the easiest to show because it is not really my design, its just criticizing. Heuristic evaluation is a big part of the job, and it teaches you alot about how to design and create better user interfaces, but is it your first choice as the work you wanna show?

2. Wire frames - design in its purest form, I can always show a visio layout of a website or other interface. I think this is my number one choice, but its cons, usualy if its implemented in a website thats good. if not, it gets me to a talk why its on the way to be implemented and that is not much to the point in my opinion.
Interviewers have to ask, you have to explain. To me, showing wire frames is accompanied by a feeling of making a lot of excuses… Its not that i have to justify my work, but its a job interview, I do have to justify my work.

3. Complete product - this one scare me the most. A complete product is the product of the development team, of the marketing guy, of the boss (he likes menus to be on the bottom left, and insists…) and the graphic designer. statistics show that most of the time, a product comes out under my hands 50% compromises because of stressful deadlines the R&D team had to stand up too or some thing else in that spirit.

So what do I show?

If you like this post, I got a glimpse of an interesting list of Q&A in UI job interviews (in Amir Dotan’s hebrew blog) or for the original list of questions by Dey Alexander consulting (english) - click here