For UX designers, the resume is the door to your portfolio. It should be clean, easy to scan and full of outcomes: task success, conversion, fewer support tickets. Pretty layouts with skill bars and icons often break screening software, so let the portfolio carry the visuals.
This example shows a product designer with six years of experience across research, interaction design and design systems. The portfolio link sits right in the header, and every bullet ties the design work to a measurable change.
Below you'll find summary examples for different levels, the skills to include, bullet points you can adapt and tips from the way recruiters read ux designer resumes.
Two or three sentences at the top of your resume: who you are, your strongest result and what you're looking for. Pick the one closest to your level and make it yours.
Entry-levelUX designer with a bootcamp certificate and 3 end-to-end case studies, including a volunteer redesign of a food bank's volunteer sign-up that doubled completed forms.
Mid-levelProduct designer with 4 years of experience in e-commerce. Runs research and testing on her own and redesigned checkout to cut abandonment by 14%.
SeniorLead designer with 10 years of experience building design teams and systems. Manages 4 designers and set up the research practice at a 300-person company.
Screening software compares your resume with the job ad, so use the same words the employer uses, but only for skills you really have. Put the most relevant ones first.
Show soft skills in your bullet points rather than listing them alone: "trained 6 new hires" proves leadership better than the word itself.
Start with a strong verb, say what you did and end with the result, ideally a number. Adapt these to your own work and never claim results you can't back up.
Put it next to your email so no one has to search for it. Make sure it opens on a phone.
Graphic ratings like "Figma: 4 of 5 stars" say little and confuse ATS software. List skills as plain words instead.
A strong bullet mentions the method (interviews, testing) and the result (activation, time on task, support tickets).
A simple, well-spaced layout shows taste better than decoration, and it survives screening software.
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Contact SupportClean beats creative. Use clear typography and spacing, and let your portfolio show visual skills. Many applicant tracking systems can't read graphics, columns of icons or text inside images.
Three to five strong ones are enough. Each should show the problem, your process, your role and the result.
Use research findings and qualitative results: tasks users could now complete, fewer complaints, faster reviews. Estimate carefully if you must, and never invent numbers.
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