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UX DesignerUX Designer CV example (2026)
A UX designer CV should be the most boring-looking document you produce — single column, real text, zero graphics — because the portfolio carries the visual argument and the CV has to survive an ATS. Lead with a summary naming your design focus and portfolio link, then experience bullets that connect design decisions to product outcomes (conversion, task completion, support tickets). Tools and methods (Figma, usability testing, design systems, WCAG) need to appear as plain text for keyword scoring.
What recruiters scan for in a UX Designer CV
- 1Portfolio link that works — it's checked before anything else is read
- 2Outcomes of design work: conversion lift, task success rate, reduced support load
- 3Method words: user research, usability testing, information architecture, design systems
- 4Collaboration signals with PM and engineering
Example UX Designer CV
A condensed but realistic example — note how every bullet pairs an action with a number, and how tools and methods are named exactly. Details are fictional.
Yuki Tanaka
UX Designer · B2B Products
London, UK · yuki.tanaka@email.com · yukitanaka.design
Summary
UX designer with 5 years in B2B SaaS, focused on complex workflow tools. Led the redesign of a data-platform onboarding flow that lifted activation 24%. Portfolio: yukitanaka.design.
Experience
Product Designer
2022 – present
Graphbase (data platform)
- Led end-to-end redesign of onboarding (research → IA → prototypes → usability tests with 18 users); activation +24%, time-to-first-query cut from 31 to 9 minutes.
- Built and documented the Figma design system (240+ components, tokens); design-to-dev handoff defects down ~40% by engineering's own count.
- Ran quarterly usability benchmarks; findings drove the roadmap's top-3 fixes for four consecutive quarters.
- Brought core flows to WCAG 2.1 AA — keyboard navigation, contrast, and screen-reader labels audited with an accessibility consultant.
Novaform Agency
- Designed web apps for 7 clients (fintech, health, e-commerce) from discovery workshops to developer handoff.
- Introduced usability testing to the agency's process; sold as a line item on 5 client contracts.
Skills
- Figma & FigJam
- User research & usability testing
- Information architecture
- Design systems
- Prototyping (Figma, Protopie)
- Accessibility (WCAG 2.1)
- HTML/CSS literacy
Education
BA Interaction Design, Goldsmiths, University of London, 2020
ATS keywords for UX Designer roles
These terms appear most often in UX Designer job descriptions and carry the most ATS score weight. Make sure the ones you can honestly claim appear in your CV — in the exact phrasing.
- 1Figma and prototyping tools
- 2User research and usability testing
- 3Information architecture
- 4Interaction design and design systems
- 5Accessibility (WCAG 2.1 compliance)
See how your UX Designer CV scores
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UX Designer CV FAQ
Should a UX designer CV be visually designed?
No — restraint is the flex. A clean, typographically tidy single-column document signals judgement; a two-column infographic CV gets shredded by ATS parsers and irritates design managers who've seen a thousand of them. Save the craft for the portfolio.
CV vs portfolio — what goes where?
The CV carries outcomes and keywords (what changed because of your design); the portfolio carries process and craft. Duplicate the headline result of each case study as a CV bullet and link the rest.
How do I show impact when the team ships the design?
Claim your specific contribution honestly: 'led research and IA for a redesign that lifted activation 24%'. Naming your slice of a team result is more credible than claiming the whole number.