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UX Designer Resume Example (2026)

UX designer resumes win on shipped features, research that changed direction, and design systems that other people use. The example below leads with all three.

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Sample resume

UX Designer resume — full example

One-column, ATS-friendly layout. Names and numbers are illustrative.

Jordan Park

San Francisco, CA · jordan.park@example.com · linkedin.com/in/jordanpark · jordanpark.design

Senior Product Designer

Professional Summary

Senior product designer with 6 years across B2B SaaS and consumer products. Led the design of the onboarding flow that lifted activation from 32% to 51%, and built the company's first design-token system (now used by 7 product teams). Strongest at research-led discovery, prototyping, and design system work.

Technical Skills

  • Tools: Figma (variables, auto-layout, prototyping), FigJam, Maze, Dovetail, Lottie
  • Research: User interviews, Usability testing, Survey design, Card sorting, Tree testing, JTBD
  • Craft: Design systems, Design tokens, Component libraries, Information architecture, Interaction design, Prototyping
  • Workflow: Figma libraries, Component governance, Design QA, Linear, Jira, Notion
  • Adjacent: WCAG 2.2 AA, HTML/CSS familiarity, Tailwind tokens, After Effects basics

Professional Experience

Senior Product Designer — Cohort Software

San Francisco, CA · Sep 2022 — Present

  • Led design of the new-user onboarding redesign; partnered with PM + 4 engineers + research; shipped flow lifted week-1 activation from 32% to 51% over four quarters.
  • Built the company's first design-token system in Figma variables + Tailwind config (24 primitives, 41 patterns); adopted by 7 product teams within 8 months.
  • Ran the research program for 12 features in 2024: 78 user interviews, 22 unmoderated usability tests; the program changed direction on 4 features pre-build.
  • Mentored 2 mid-level designers; one promoted within 11 months.

Product Designer — Bramble Labs

Remote · Apr 2020 — Aug 2022

  • Designed the mobile app from zero to 120K MAU in 11 months; led the design sprints (4 rounds, 22 participants total) that surfaced the core navigation pattern.
  • Killed two committed-roadmap features after concept tests showed only one of three target personas converted; redirected design capacity to a feature that became the company's fastest-adopted release.
  • Authored the team's research playbook (recruitment, screener templates, synthesis); cut research-idea-to-readout time from 6 weeks to 10 days.

Education

  • B.F.A. Communication Design — California College of the Arts · 2020

Why this resume works

  • Activation metric (32% → 51%) anchors the onboarding bullet to business value — the strongest framing for design resumes.
  • Design system bullet names the artifact (24 primitives, 41 patterns), the consumers (7 teams), and the adoption window (8 months). All three are what senior design hiring managers look for.
  • 'Killed two committed-roadmap features' shows judgment, not just delivery. Senior design panels weight tradeoff bullets over delivery-only bullets.
  • Research is named in concrete units (78 interviews, 22 tests, 4 direction changes) — not 'experience with research methods'.

Common mistakes

  • Listing Figma plugins. The recruiter does not care; the senior IC interviewer does not care.
  • Calling everything a 'redesign'. A redesign without an outcome bullet is a portfolio piece, not a resume bullet. Pair the redesign with the metric the redesign moved.
  • Burying research. If half your work is research, half your bullets should reflect it — and concrete units (interviews, tests, recruitment) outperform method-list bullets.
  • Listing every design school you considered. Education in two lines. Move portfolio link to the contact line.

ATS keywords

UX Designer resume keywords ATS systems scan for

A condensed view. For the full categorized list, see the UX Designer keywords page.

Hard skills

  • User experience design
  • Product design
  • Interaction design
  • Visual design
  • Information architecture
  • User research
  • Usability testing
  • User interviews
  • Survey design
  • JTBD
  • Jobs to be done
  • Card sorting

Tools

  • Figma
  • FigJam
  • Adobe XD
  • Sketch
  • Framer
  • ProtoPie
  • Principle
  • Maze
  • UserTesting
  • Dovetail
  • Lookback
  • Miro

Action verbs

  • Designed
  • Led
  • Shipped
  • Prototyped
  • Researched
  • Tested
  • Iterated
  • Partnered
  • Mentored
  • Authored
  • Owned
  • Killed

Soft skills

  • Cross-functional collaboration
  • Design critique facilitation
  • Stakeholder communication
  • Research synthesis
  • Mentorship
  • Design system governance
  • Workshop facilitation
See the full UX Designer keyword list

Questions

UX Designer resume — frequently asked

Do I need a portfolio link?+
Yes. Include it in the contact line. A resume without a portfolio link in design will not make the first pass at most companies.
Should I list every Figma plugin I've used?+
No. List Figma at the level of 'Figma (variables, auto-layout, prototyping)' and stop there. Plugins are noise.
Product designer vs UX designer vs UI designer — which to claim?+
Use whichever the target company uses. Most modern SaaS companies use 'Product Designer' as the senior IC title. Mirror their language in your summary line; the keyword engine credits both.
Is HTML/CSS worth listing as a design skill?+
Yes if you can read it and ship token files for engineering. Don't claim to write production CSS unless you do.

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