When we were interviewing for designers at DataPad, we appreciated candidates who showed a genuine interest in what they would work on. If you're already thinking about these questions, it's a good sign that you're truly curious about the position and company culture:

• How would you see me best fitting into your team
• How does the team make design decisions?
• What gets you out of bed every day?
• What will the company look like in 5 years?
• What sort of problems will the company face in 5 years?
• What are some of the hardest problems you're working on this week?
• What does the team do for fun?
• What's your working relationship like with your coworkers?
• What kind of tradeoffs have you had to make recently?

A brief article here: https://medium.com/designer-fund/interviewing-with-startups-tips-for-designers-106d8d2bf37b

It depends.

We loosely follow Lean UX. So if a concept is still in its early stages, it's more effective for me to sketch an interaction on pen and paper and use that as an ephemeral spec.

We use Confluence for more complex specs that we know are going to evolve over time.

To show interactions using high fidelity mocks, we use Invision, which has been great so far since we can make quick click/hover prototypes and add comments directly on the screens.

In terms of tools that spec exact visual dimensions, I haven't encountered much better than specctr. Though if you are working closely with your development team, I recommend crossing tools — developers should be familiar with and have access to your design tools. Our developers do this with the design tool we use Antetype. Our designers often build out components with CSS and send snippets.

On that note, evolving style guides are effective and sustainable. Check out KSS. Our process at DataPad is evolving, but I see us using CSS to spec more and more.

If I could give 5 upvotes, I would.

brackets.io has a live file preview in the browser that updates as you edit / save local files.

I use Currently chrome extension by Rainfall https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/currently/ojhmphdkpgbibohbnpbfiefkgieacjmh?hl=en

Zulip

Still early development, but we've found so much more focus in our work lately after moving from Hipchat. They allow you to create specific streams, subscribe, and mute. We're loving it so far.

=] I had some trouble too (Google Sites isn't design-centric), but I gleaned more from the actual content than proper font size and leading.