Resume format by role
UI/UX Designer resume format
The layout, section order and skills for a ui/ux designer resume, from the ui/ux designer job postings in SwitchWithAI’s role library. Then build it free, in Word and PDF, in the layout already chosen for you.
Recommended layout
Timeline
One of the builder’s five ATS-friendly layouts, the one made for design roles. Every layout reads top to bottom, so recruiting software parses it in order.
Section order, fresher
- 1. Contact and portfolio link (first line)
- 2. Summary
- 3. Projects and case studies
- 4. Skills and tools
- 5. Internships
- 6. Education
Section order, experienced
- 1. Contact and portfolio link
- 2. Summary
- 3. Experience
- 4. Selected case studies
- 5. Skills and tools
- 6. Education
Skills
The skills ui/ux designer postings ask for
These are the terms the ui/ux designer sample posting in SwitchWithAI’s role library lists, from the same library its ATS checker compares a resume against. Put the ones you really have where your work shows them, not only in a skills list.
Skills for every role in the library, side by side, are on skills for resume.
What a ui/ux designer recruiter reads first
For design roles the portfolio link is read before anything else, so it belongs at the top. The resume's job is to say what problem each project solved and for whom; the visuals live in the portfolio.
Mistakes to avoid
- A heavily designed PDF an ATS cannot read: keep the resume plain and the portfolio rich.
- No portfolio link, or one that needs a password.
- Tools listed without the kind of work you did with them.
A bullet pattern that works
Redesigned [flow / screen] for [users] after [research method], lifting [completion / satisfaction] by [X].
A pattern, not an example to copy: fill each bracket with something you really did, or leave it out.
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