I recently had an assessment for a product designer position and had a total blast working on it.
I was given a couple of trend boards that also included different fabrics and materials to inspire the design of Christmas ornaments. Despite being numbered how they are, I designed them in 3,2,1,4 order. Rather than sort them chronologically I wanted to have my best two book-ending the spread with my other attempts being up to snuff, but nothing that I felt really sold my creativity that I wanted to sell.