UX/UI Designer CV: example, skills and writing tips

UX/UI designer CV example

The CV below shows the level of detail recruiters look for: the product, the users, your role in the process, the methods and tools you used, and what changed afterwards.

Every line says what was done, on which product, with which method and with what result. The rest of this guide shows how to build each section in the same way.

Job title and professional summary

Choose a title that reflects your actual focus

Design titles overlap, and companies use them differently. Your CV should make your main focus obvious, and stay consistent with the roles you have actually held.

A short descriptor after the title helps recruiters place you quickly:

UX/UI Designer – B2B SaaS, user research and design systems
UI Designer – web and mobile interfaces
Product Designer – discovery and design system

Professional summary examples

Three or four lines are enough: your experience, the type of product, your focus and two or three methods you can prove.

Experienced UX/UI designer

UX/UI designer with 5 years’ experience on web and mobile products. User research, user flows, wireframes, Figma prototyping and usability testing, in daily collaboration with product managers and developers.

Product designer

Product designer specialising in B2B SaaS. Works from discovery to delivery: user interviews, flows, prototyping, testing, design system work and tracking of product metrics after release.

Junior UX/UI designer

Junior UX/UI designer with a one-year work-study placement on a mobile app: user interviews, wireframes and Figma prototypes, usability test preparation and component updates in the design system. Portfolio with three documented case studies.

Avoid summaries that only describe your personality, such as “creative designer passionate about beautiful interfaces”: they say nothing about your method or your contribution to the product.

UX/UI designer skills by area

List the skills you can demonstrate in your experience or your portfolio. The third column shows how to turn each skill into a CV line.

Tools: show how you use them

Recruiters look for Figma on almost every UX/UI CV, but the tool alone says little. Describe what you do with it rather than rating yourself (“Figma 5/5”):

Figma — wireframes, interfaces, components, interactive prototypes and developer handoff, on a design system of about 80 components.

• FigJam, Miro or similar: only if you run workshops or research synthesis with them.
• Testing tools (Maze or others): name the ones you have actually used, and for what kind of test.
• Jira, Confluence, Notion: one line is usually enough, for example “design tickets and documentation of design decisions in Confluence”.
• Analytics tools: say what you looked at (funnels, exit pages, conversion) without presenting yourself as a data analyst.
• Photoshop, Illustrator: keep them if you still use them for assets, retouching or illustrations.
• HTML, CSS, JavaScript: useful when they genuinely help you work with developers; state your real level, for example “working knowledge of HTML and CSS”.

Do not list a tool you could not discuss confidently in an interview.

Experience and achievements

A simple structure for each line

For each role, describe your work in this order: context → your own action → method or tool → scope → result. Make your role explicit: leading, contributing or supporting are different things.

Too vague

Participated in the redesign of the app.

Informative

Led the redesign of the subscription flow of a B2C mobile app used by around [X] customers a month: mapped the existing journey, identified 6 friction points, prototyped a shorter flow in Figma and tested it with 8 users; the completion rate rose from [X]% to [Y]% after release.

Achievement examples to adapt

Replace [X] and [Y] with your own figures, and keep only the metrics you actually tracked:

• Redesigned the sign-up flow; completion rate rose from [X]% to [Y]% in the [N] months after release.
• Simplified a multi-step business form; input errors fell by [X]% on the redesigned steps.
• Reworked a feature and its messages; related support tickets fell by [X]% within three months.
• Consolidated components into a shared design system adopted by [N] products.
• Ran usability tests with [N] users over [N] iterations before development.
• Worked across [N] product squads at the same time, prioritising design requests with product managers.

When a result depends on several teams or on other changes released at the same time, write “contributed to” rather than claiming it alone.

Link your CV to your portfolio

For a UX/UI role, the portfolio link belongs next to your contact details, and it should work on a phone. Each case study should show the problem, your role, the method, the key decisions, the deliverables and the result. A portfolio of attractive screens without context is much less convincing than two well-documented projects.

Education and qualifications

Design, UX, interaction design, digital design, graphic design, ergonomics or a front-end background followed by UX training can all lead to UX/UI roles. On your CV, use the format qualification – specialism – institution – year:

[Degree or course] – [specialism]
[Institution] — [year]

• Bootcamps: list them if you completed them; they are most useful for junior profiles and career changers, but should not take more space than your projects.
• Certifications (Figma, UX courses): list them if relevant, while remembering that recruiters judge your portfolio and your results first.
• Experienced designers: education can take less space than your most recent projects.

ATS readability and tailoring

Make your CV easy to read for ATS and recruiters

Many employers use applicant tracking systems (ATS) to store and search applications. The aim is not to “beat” software, but to make your experience easy to identify for both software and people:

• use standard headings: Professional summary, Experience, Skills, Education, Tools;
• keep key information as real text: a CV exported entirely as an image, text inside graphics or skill-level icons can be harder to read;
• use the job title and terms that match your work: UX/UI designer, user research, wireframes, prototyping, usability testing, design system, Figma, accessibility;
• keep the portfolio link as clickable text, not hidden in an image.

As a designer, you can still produce a carefully designed CV: a clear hierarchy and a readable single-column structure work for both.

UX/UI Designer – B2B SaaS – user research, Figma and design systems is far clearer than Digital Designer when the posting is for a product role.

Tailor your CV to each job

Postings with the same title can have very different priorities. Adjust your title, summary, highlighted projects and tools, without inventing experience.

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Junior UX/UI designer or career change

With little professional experience, the same principle applies: be precise about what you have actually done, and let your case studies carry the evidence.

• Internships and work-study placements: describe them like real jobs, with the methods and deliverables you produced.
• Personal or course projects: they are useful, as long as they are clearly labelled. Do not present an exercise as a client project.
• From graphic design: show the progression from visual identity and UI to flows, prototyping and usability testing.
• From front-end development: bring forward your understanding of technical constraints, components and responsive work, then show your new research and testing skills.
• From marketing: customer knowledge, analytics and conversion are assets; add the UX methods you have learned since.

UX project – Redesign of a booking service (personal project)
Analysed the existing flow · 5 user interviews · wireframes · interactive prototype · test with 6 users · iteration after feedback

Trained or working in France?

If your design background is French, a few adjustments make your CV clearer to English-speaking recruiters.

French qualifications

Keep the French name of your diploma or course and add a short English description of its field and level, without claiming an equivalence with British, American or other degrees. For example:

[French diploma name] – [specialism] ([short English description of the field and length of study])
[School] — [year]

An alternance is a French work-study programme: describe it as a work-study placement and treat it as real experience. A stage is an internship.

French job titles and terms

Translate the work, not the words. “Maquettes” are mock-ups or wireframes, depending on fidelity; a “parcours utilisateur” is a user journey or user flow; “recette” corresponds to acceptance testing or design QA, depending on your role. Keep the title you actually held, translated naturally (UX designer, UI designer, product designer).

Mistakes to avoid and final checklist

Listing tools instead of methods

Figma does not replace a UX process: show research, flows, prototypes and tests.

Calling yourself UX/UI but showing only UI

If UX is in your title, show your work with users and journeys.

Hiding or forgetting the portfolio

Put a working link next to your contact details, and test it on a phone.

Showing screens without context

Explain the problem, your role and the result.

Listing “design thinking” without an example

Link each method to a real project.

Forgetting results, or overclaiming them

Conversion, completion, errors or support tickets can show your impact; say “contributed to” when the result is shared.

Using a title your scope does not support

Call yourself a product designer only if your work covers discovery, product decisions and metrics.

Checklist before you apply

• The title matches the role and your real focus (UX, UI or product).
• The portfolio link is next to your contact details and works on mobile.
• The summary names the type of product, your methods and two or three key skills.
• Each role states the product, the users, your own role and at least one result or scope figure.
• Tools are described by their use, with no rating bars.
• Every figure is accurate, and shared results are worded as contributions.
• Key information is real text, in a readable structure.
• The CV has been adjusted to the posting.

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CVReader sample: UX/UI designer CVs and job postings in France

In the extraction of 13 October 2026, CVReader identified 50 UX/UI designer profiles among recently analysed CVs, and 209 UX/UI designer postings among recent France Travail postings. This is a French sample, not a measure of the UK, US or global market.

How to read these figures

• CVs: profiles analysed by CVReader in the 3 months before the extraction.
• Postings: France Travail postings from the 30 days before the extraction.
• The periods differ on purpose: a CV from a few weeks or months ago can still be used to apply to a recently published posting.
• These figures do not describe all candidates or all vacancies in France. They should not be read as a number of postings per candidate, a shortage, a level of competition or a likelihood of being hired.

CVReader methodology. Aggregated data. Each CV is assigned to a single occupation, based on the match estimated by CVReader; only profiles with a sufficient match are included in the figures shown. Figures come from an extraction supplied to CVReader and are not updated in real time. Extraction date: 13 October 2026. CVs: profiles analysed in the 3 months before the extraction. Postings: France Travail, in the 30 days before the extraction. Occupation: ROME E1206 – UX - UI Designer (ROME is the French public employment service’s occupation classification).

UX/UI designer CV: frequently asked questions

Which skills should I put on a UX/UI designer CV?

Prioritise user research, user flows, wireframes, prototyping, usability testing, design systems and Figma, keeping only the skills you have used on real projects.

Should my CV include a portfolio link?

Yes. Place it near your contact details and make sure it leads to case studies that explain the problem, your role, your method and the result.

How do I write a UX/UI professional summary?

State your years of experience, the type of product, whether your focus is UX, UI or product, and two or three methods you can demonstrate.

Which results can I mention?

Changes in completion, conversion, activation, errors or support tickets, when they are directly linked to your project and you know the figures.

What is the difference between a UX/UI designer and a product designer?

A product designer usually works more broadly on discovery, product decisions and metrics across the life of a feature. Scopes vary from one company to another.

Is a CV the same as a resume?

In the United States and Canada, the document used to apply for most jobs is usually called a resume; in the UK and many other countries it is called a CV. The advice in this guide applies to both.