Portfolio first
Put your portfolio link at the top. The resume points to it; the case studies carry the detail.
RESUME EXAMPLE · PRODUCT AND UX DESIGNER
Product and UX designer resume example
A structure you can follow for a product and UX designer resume, with placeholders for your own details, plus the skills and tools mentioned most often in the 77 open product and UX designer listings on ROLIVA right now.
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What employers ask for right now
Figma appears in 45 of 77 open product and UX designer listings on ROLIVA (as of ).
- Figma45 of 77 listings
- User research22 of 77 listings
- Machine learning8 of 77 listings
- JavaScript6 of 77 listings
- Go-to-market3 of 77 listings
- React3 of 77 listings
- Snowflake3 of 77 listings
- SQL3 of 77 listings
- Stakeholder management3 of 77 listings
How this is counted: each open listing’s description and stated skills are checked, on whole words, against the same fixed skills vocabulary ROLIVA uses on its job pages and its monthly skills reports. A listing counts once per term. A mention is not a requirement, and the counts change as employers open and close roles.
Example structure
One column, standard headings and real text: easy for a recruiter to scan and for an application system to read. Fill each bracket from your own record, and delete any section you have nothing true to put in.
[Your name]
[City, Country] · [email address] · [phone number] · [LinkedIn or portfolio URL]
Portfolio
- [Portfolio URL], with [number] case studies: [case study titles]
Summary
Product designer with [number] years of experience designing [type of product] for [users], from research to shipped interfaces.
Experience
[Job title] · [Employer] · [City] · [Month Year] – [Month Year or Present]
- Designed [feature or flow] for [user group] in [tool, e.g. Figma], from [research method] to shipped [platform].
- Ran [number] usability tests on [prototype], and changed [design decision] based on [finding].
- Contributed [components or guidelines] to the [design system], used by [teams].
[Earlier job title] · [Employer] · [City] · [Month Year] – [Month Year]
- [Two or three bullets in the same pattern: your action, its scope and a result you can support]
Skills
[Skill or tool] · [Skill or tool] · [Skill or tool] · [Skill or tool]
Education
[Degree or qualification] · [Institution] · [Year]
What to stress in a product and UX designer resume
Process and research
Show research, testing and iteration you ran, not only final screens.
Collaboration and shipping
Say what shipped and how you worked with product and engineering.
Skills section
Design tools you use, research and testing methods, prototyping, design systems and accessibility practice.
Write evidence-based bullets
- Start with what you did. Open each bullet with a verb that names your own action: built, wrote, led, analysed, ran. Avoid “responsible for”.
- Add scope. Say for whom, how much or how often: the team, users, region or volume. Scope makes a duty into evidence.
- Show a result only if you can support it. A number is useful only when you could explain how it was measured. If you cannot, describe the outcome in words instead.
- Use the employer’s words where they are true. If a term in “What employers ask for right now” matches work you have done, use that wording in your skills and bullets. If it does not match your experience, leave it out.
Patterns for product and UX designer bullets
- Designed [feature or flow] for [user group] in [tool, e.g. Figma], from [research method] to shipped [platform].
- Ran [number] usability tests on [prototype], and changed [design decision] based on [finding].
- Contributed [components or guidelines] to the [design system], used by [teams].
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