UI/UX Designer CV example

What recruiters expect

Before writing anything, it helps to know what the person reading is checking for. In this field that is usually a short, specific list:

• A portfolio link that works, at the top, with a password included if it is protected.
• Research method described specifically: how many participants, what type of study, what you learned that surprised you.
• Evidence that your designs shipped, and what happened to the metric afterwards.
• Design system work - components, tokens, documentation, and how you got other people to use it.
• Collaboration detail: working with engineers, running critiques, handling disagreement about a decision.

Recommended CV structure

This is the running order the example uses. It is a starting point rather than a rule, but the order reflects what tends to be read first in this profession.

1. Profile — Three or four lines positioning you for the role.
2. Skills & Tools — Grouped skills, for example "Languages" and "Tooling".
3. Professional Experience — Paid roles, in reverse chronological order.
4. Selected Projects — Selected pieces with links.
5. Education — Degrees, diplomas and school-leaving qualifications.
6. Certifications — Completed certifications with the issuing body.
7. Languages — Spoken languages with CEFR levels.

Sections worth adding

• Community — Mentoring and design community work read well for senior and lead roles.
• Awards — Only for recognised industry awards, and only with the year and category.

Skills worth including

Grouped rather than listed in one block. Grouping makes a long list readable and shows that you can tell the difference between the things you use daily and the things you have touched.

Beyond the technical list: Presenting to stakeholders, Defending a decision with evidence, Facilitation, Mentoring junior designers. These belong inside your experience bullets, demonstrated, rather than in a list of adjectives.

Example professional summary

Three or four lines, positioned for the role rather than describing your personality. Two versions you can adapt:

Product designer with six years on subscription and marketplace products. Recent work includes a cancellation flow redesign that reduced churn by around 11%, and a 60-component design system now used by all six squads. Comfortable running research, not just interpreting it.

Product designer with a research-led practice and a habit of shipping. Six years across two SaaS products, including accessibility remediation to WCAG 2.2 AA and design system ownership.

Writing your experience

The difference between a CV that gets a call and one that does not is almost always in the bullet points. Each pair below shows a real rewrite of the kind of line that appears on most CVs in this field.

Taken from the example

The sample CV for this profession is fully written. A few sections from it, so you can see the level of specificity that works:

Experience

Senior Product Designer, Perch Media Subscriptions

• Ran 14 moderated usability sessions on the cancellation flow, which showed most users could not find the pause option; surfacing it reduced cancellations by around 11% over the following quarter.
• Built and documented a 60-component Figma library with tokens shared with the engineering Storybook, and ran adoption sessions that took usage from two squads to all six in a quarter.
• Led accessibility remediation across the account area to WCAG 2.2 AA, including a rewrite of the payment form error handling.
• Facilitate fortnightly critique for a design team of five, and mentor two junior designers.

Education

• BA (Hons) Graphic Design, University of Brighton — First Class Honours

Certifications and registration

• Foundations of UX Research — Nielsen Norman Group

Common mistakes

ATS considerations

Applicant tracking systems behave differently by sector, and generic advice is often wrong for a given field. These points are specific to ui/ux designer applications:

• Include "UX designer", "UI designer" and "product designer" across the document, because employers use all three for the same job.
• Keep the CV to a plain single column. Multi-column design CVs are frequently parsed out of order.
• Put the portfolio URL as plain text, not as an icon or an image link.
• Name the research methods; "user research" alone matches less well than "usability testing" and "user interviews".

The Minimal ATS layout is built for this, and the ATS guide covers what parsers do to a file in more detail.

Guides that go deeper

This page applies general CV advice to one field. The full treatment of each part is here:

• How to Make an ATS-Friendly CV — What applicant tracking systems do to your file, the four failures that matter, and which of the usual claims about them anybody can actually stand behind.
• How to Describe Work Experience — The difference between listing duties and demonstrating impact, and a repeatable way to rewrite any weak bullet point.
• How to List Skills on a CV — Group them, be specific, and cut anything you would not want to be interviewed on for ten minutes.

Questions about ui/ux designer CVs