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UX designer with 5 years designing digital products for fintech, healthcare, and consumer apps. Redesigned onboarding flow reducing drop-off by 34%. Comfortable leading research, prototyping, and handoff with cross-functional teams. Proficient in Figma and design systems.
EXPERIENCE
Senior UX Designer — FinApp2021–present
Redesigned onboarding flow: reduced drop-off by 34%, improving activation rate from 42% to 56%
Led design system creation (80+ components) used by 6 product squads, cutting design-to-dev time by 25%
Facilitated 40+ user research sessions across 3 product areas, informing 2 major pivots
Mentored 2 junior designers; established critique cadence and documentation standards
UX Designer — HealthTech Ltd2019–2021
Designed patient portal for NHS partner, reducing support calls by 22%
Created responsive design for 3 core features from discovery through launch
Conducted usability testing with 30+ participants; findings directly shaped final designs
BA Interaction Design · Central Saint Martins · 2019
Resume summary examples
The summary is the first thing a recruiter reads. Pick the version that matches your experience and swap in your own numbers.
Entry level
Junior UX designer with 2 years on a B2B web app, running usability tests and designing flows within an existing design system. Cut drop-off on the sign-up flow by 19% after five moderated tests exposed a step nobody could complete without help.
Mid level
UX designer with 5 years across web and mobile products, owning end-to-end design for a 60,000-user platform. Raised task completion from 62% to 89% on the core workflow and built the component library the team now designs and builds from.
Senior level
Senior UX designer with 9 years in B2B and fintech, leading design for two squads and mentoring three designers. Reduced support contacts by 31% by redesigning the flow that produced them, and set the research practice the product org now runs discovery with.
How to write a ux designer resume
Show impact, not just deliverables
Listing "wireframes" and "prototypes" is not enough. Show what the design achieved: reduced drop-off, improved task completion, higher satisfaction scores. If you don't have metrics, describe the decision rationale and the outcome you aimed for.
Include your research methods
UX roles increasingly require research skills. Name the methods you use: usability testing, contextual inquiry, card sorting, tree testing, diary studies. Mention how many participants you've worked with and how findings shaped decisions.
Balance portfolio link with resume content
Your portfolio carries the work — the resume explains the context. Use the resume to set up each project: what problem you solved, your role, and the measurable result. The portfolio then shows the details. Both need to work together.
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Ready-made resume bullet points
Copy a line, replace the numbers with yours and keep the verb at the front — that is what makes an achievement readable.
Raised task completion on the core workflow from 62% to 89% after restructuring it around what users actually do first
Cut sign-up drop-off by 19% by removing two fields and splitting one screen into two
Reduced support contacts about a single feature by 31% after a redesign traced directly to the ticket log
Ran 60 usability sessions in a year and turned them into a prioritised list the squad shipped against
Built a component library of 42 components adopted by 3 product teams, cutting design handoff questions to near zero
Redesigned the mobile checkout, lifting completion on small screens from 54% to 78%
Brought the product to WCAG 2.1 AA on all critical flows, fixing 38 contrast and focus-order issues
Cut time from design to build by a third by shipping specs, states and tokens with every handoff
Mentored 3 designers through their first end-to-end projects, two of whom now run their own squads
Replaced a five-step onboarding with a two-step flow, raising activation from 41% to 63%
Key skills for a UX designer resume
Hard skills
Research: moderated and unmoderated testing, interviews, survey design
Analytics: funnel analysis, session replay, reading a test that shows no difference
Handoff: specs, tokens, working with engineers through implementation
Soft skills
Presenting a design as a hypothesis rather than a preference
Taking research that contradicts your design without defending the design
Explaining a UX decision in the language of the business outcome
Pushing back on a feature request with the evidence that it solves nothing
Keywords for ATS
Applicant tracking systems match your resume against the wording of the posting. Use the terms you genuinely know.
UX design
user experience
user research
usability testing
wireframes
prototyping
Figma
interaction design
information architecture
design system
accessibility
WCAG
user flows
journey mapping
A/B testing
mobile design
responsive design
UI design
design handoff
portfolio
What a UX portfolio needs to show
The resume gets your portfolio opened; the portfolio decides the interview. Design leads look for the same four things, and the fourth is the one most portfolios skip.
Three to five case studies, not everything you have touched. Depth is the signal: one project explained properly outweighs eight galleries of final screens.
The problem and the evidence for it. Start each case with what was failing and how you knew — tickets, analytics, testing — because a design without a problem behind it cannot be judged as good or bad.
What you tried and rejected. The directions you discarded, and why, show your reasoning more clearly than the solution you shipped, and that reasoning is what the interview will test.
The result, including where it did not work. A case study that says completion rose to 89% but error rate did not move reads as honest measurement; three unbroken success stories read as marketing.
Tools and methods worth naming
Job ads match tool and method names literally, so mirror the posting's wording — and list only what you would use in a live exercise, because most UX interviews include one.
Figma
FigJam
Sketch
Adobe XD
Maze
UserTesting
Hotjar
Lookback
Miro
Notion
Axure
Framer
Principle
Storybook
Zeplin
WCAG 2.1
VoiceOver and NVDA testing
card sorting
tree testing
moderated usability testing
What to write in each section
Profile
Three lines: years and product type (B2B, consumer, mobile, platform), what you own end to end, and one measurable outcome. Put the portfolio link in the header — it is the first thing a design hiring manager looks for, and its absence ends the application.
Experience
Per role, name the product, the scale (users, platforms, squads) and whether you worked inside a design system or built one. Each bullet: the problem, the research, the design decision, the measured outcome. One redesign with numbers beats five projects described as "improved the user experience".
Skills
Separate research, design and accessibility. Keep WCAG and testing methods on the list — accessibility is increasingly a legal requirement, and most candidates leave it off entirely, which makes it a fast differentiator.
Education
Degree with year, then training that matters in practice: an accessibility certification, a research methods course, a design system programme. Keep it short; in UX, the portfolio and the outcomes carry the application.
Strong verbs for this resume
Start every achievement with a verb in the past tense. These are the ones that fit this role and read as work, not as a job description.
Researched
Tested
Prototyped
Redesigned
Simplified
Validated
Mapped
Iterated
Documented
Facilitated
Audited
Shipped
Key tips
Include portfolio link in the header
Lead bullets with measurable outcomes: drop-off rate, task completion, CSAT
Name specific research methods used and participant counts
Mention design system contributions if relevant
List tools: Figma, Maze, UserTesting, Hotjar, Miro
Mistakes that cost interviews
Deliverables listed instead of outcomes
"Created wireframes, prototypes and user flows" describes the tools of the job, not the result of it. Every UX bullet should end in a number a product manager would recognise: completion, drop-off, support contacts, activation, time on task.
Research mentioned without method or sample
"Conducted user research" could mean five moderated sessions or a poll of colleagues. Name the method and the number — eight moderated tests, a 400-response survey, twelve interviews — because the first interview question is always how you know.
A portfolio of screens with no problem behind them
Beautiful final screens with no starting state, constraint or result read as decoration. Every case study needs the problem, what you tried, what failed, and what changed after launch.
No mention of constraints or engineering reality
A design that ignores the platform, the legacy system, or the two-week deadline reads as a portfolio exercise. Say what you designed within: existing components, technical limits, a release date that did not move.
No experience yet?
Without a UX job, the portfolio is the application. Take two or three real products and redesign a flow that genuinely fails: state the problem, test the current version with five people, design the alternative, test again, and report what changed and what did not. Add one accessibility audit of a public site with the issues listed by WCAG criterion. That work shows research, judgement and craft in a way a certification cannot, and it is what a design lead reads first.
Three or four sentences are enough: why this role, what you have already done, what you want next.
Dear Design Team, I am applying for the UX designer role at Acme. I have five years across web and mobile, owning design end to end for a 60,000-user platform. The work I would most like to discuss is the core workflow redesign: five moderated sessions showed people could not complete a step without help, and restructuring it took task completion from 62% to 89%. Your posting mentions building out the design system — I built a 42-component library adopted by three product teams, which cut handoff questions to near zero. My portfolio is linked in my resume, with the research and the rejected directions written up for each project.
Frequently asked questions
No. Hiring managers care about your portfolio and process, not your degree subject. A bootcamp background with strong case studies outperforms a design degree with weak portfolio work. Explain your path briefly in the profile.
Yes, if it's relevant and you're comfortable being assessed on it. Many UX roles expect visual fluency. Note the balance clearly — "UX-led with UI execution" — so interviewers know what to expect.
Focus on 3–5 strong projects rather than listing every piece of work. Each reference should connect to a business context, a user challenge, and an outcome. Quality beats volume.
Describe the problem, your role, and the outcome without naming the client — "a leading retail bank" or "a Series B healthtech startup" gives enough context. Keep metrics but round them if exact figures are sensitive: "reduced onboarding drop-off by roughly a third". Never paste protected screens into your portfolio; recruiters treat NDA breaches as a red flag, not initiative.
List them, but below experience — they support your story, they don't carry it. NN/g certification carries real weight for research-heavy roles, while the Google UX Certificate matters most for career switchers with thin project history. One line each in a short Certifications section is enough; don't let them crowd out shipped work.
Three to five case studies, each with the problem, the constraint, what you tested, what you rejected and the measured result. Include one project that did not work and say why. Reviewers spend a few minutes; the case study that explains reasoning beats the one with the most screens.
Say what you can evidence: usability findings, task completion in testing, the support tickets that stopped arriving, qualitative feedback with the number of participants. Never invent a percentage — the follow-up question about how it was measured is the one that ends interviews.
Clean, structured and readable, in one or two typefaces. The portfolio is where the craft is judged; the resume is judged on clarity and on whether a parser can read it. A three-column resume with skill bars fails both tests.
How else this resume is searched for
Job titles differ between companies. If the posting uses one of these names, mirror its exact wording in your resume headline.
Product designer
UI/UX designer
Interaction designer
UX researcher
Senior UX designer
Digital product designer
Service designer
UX/UI designer
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