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Ximena Ostrowski

UX Designer | Research-Led Product Design | Design Systems

  • Los Angeles, CA
  • ximena.ostrowski@example.com
  • +1 (310) 555-0138
  • linkedin.com/in/your-name

Summary

UX designer with seven years shipping research-led products across web and mobile. Pairs rigorous discovery with strong interaction design, and builds design systems that keep teams fast and consistent.

Work Experience

Senior UX Designer

Mar 2021 – Present

Lattice Health · Los Angeles, CA

  • Redesigned the patient onboarding flow informed by 24 usability sessions, lifting completion rate from 58% to 84%.
  • Built and maintained a design system adopted across 5 product squads, cutting design-to-dev handoff time 35%.
  • Led research that reframed a roadmap bet, saving an estimated quarter of engineering effort on an unneeded feature.

UX Designer

Jun 2018 – Feb 2021

Orbit Apps · Los Angeles, CA

  • Designed and prototyped 30+ features in Figma for a mobile app with 400,000 monthly active users.
  • Ran moderated and unmoderated tests that reduced a key task's time-on-task 41%.
  • Improved accessibility to WCAG 2.1 AA, expanding usability for screen-reader users.

Junior UX/UI Designer

Jul 2016 – May 2018

Tidepool Studio · San Diego, CA

  • Created wireframes and high-fidelity mockups for 12 client websites.
  • Conducted competitive audits that shaped redesigns improving bounce rates 20%.

Education

Bachelor of Fine Arts, Interaction Design

2013 – 2017

Art Center College of Design

Skills

Core competencies

  • User Research
  • Interaction Design
  • Design Systems

Technical

  • Figma
  • FigJam
  • Maze
  • Dovetail
  • Prototyping
  • Usability Testing
  • WCAG Accessibility

Soft Skills

  • Stakeholder Facilitation
  • Storytelling
  • Cross-Functional Collaboration

Certifications

  • Nielsen Norman Group UX Certification · NN/g, 2020
  • Google UX Design Professional Certificate · Google, 2021

Languages

  • English · Native
  • Spanish · Professional working proficiency

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UX Designer resume summary examples

Pick the one closest to your level and replace the specifics with your own.

  • Entry level

    UX designer with a certificate in human-computer interaction and two shipped case studies, including a redesign of a campus event app. Conducts user interviews, builds wireframes and prototypes in Figma, and tests designs with five to eight participants. Looking to join a product team and learn from experienced researchers and designers.

  • Mid level

    UX designer with five years of experience on a B2B SaaS product used by 40,000 people. Plans and runs usability studies, defines flows with product managers and ships work with engineers each sprint. Redesigned onboarding, which raised activation from 41 to 56 percent, and contributes components to the shared design system.

  • Senior

    Senior UX designer with ten years of experience leading research-driven design for complex enterprise tools. Sets the UX roadmap for two product areas, manages two designers and a researcher, and built the design system that cut handoff time by a third. Advises executives on tradeoffs and aligns design with business goals.

  • UX researcher

    UX researcher who plans studies end to end for a mobile banking product: screeners, discussion guides, moderated sessions and synthesis in Dovetail. Shares findings as short clips and decision memos rather than long decks, and tracks which recommendations shipped. Works alongside two product designers and invites engineers into sessions so they hear users firsthand.

  • Visual to UX

    Visual designer moving into UX after three years building marketing sites and landing pages, where conversion data first pulled me toward research. Recent work includes a usability study on a nonprofit's donation flow and a Figma prototype tested with seven participants. Brings strong typography, layout and component thinking to product work.

UX Designer resume objective examples

An objective fits when you have no direct experience in the role yet. Name the role, the proof you already have and what you will bring to the team.

  • Bootcamp graduate

    UX bootcamp graduate with three case studies, including a redesigned appointment booking flow tested with six users in Maze. Looking for a junior UX designer role on a team that holds regular critiques and gives designers time with real users.

  • Former teacher

    Former high school teacher with six years designing lessons for mixed-ability classrooms, now applying for UX roles. Completed the Google UX Design Certificate and a volunteer project on a library's event signup, from interviews through a tested prototype.

  • Developer

    Front-end developer with four years in React who wants to design the flows I used to build. Comfortable with design tokens, accessibility checks and handoff from the engineering side, and seeking a UX or product designer role where that context speeds up delivery.

Common mistakes on a UX designer resume

  • Showing screens without the decisions behind them

    Fix: Reviewers want to see how you think. In each bullet, name the problem, the research method, the design decision and what changed afterward, in one or two sentences.

  • Hiding your contribution on team projects

    Fix: Say exactly what you owned, such as running interviews, building the prototype or defining the component library, and state the team size. Use "I" in the portfolio and keep resume bullets specific.

  • Leaving out accessibility and engineering collaboration

    Fix: Mention WCAG checks, color contrast fixes, annotated handoffs, and working in sprints with developers. This shows your designs ship and work for more people.

  • Listing tools as the main skill

    Fix: Figma is expected. Put it in a single line, then spend the space on user research, testing, information architecture and measurable outcomes such as task success and support tickets.

What should a UX designer resume include?

A UX designer resume should open with a two or three line summary of your focus, then show each role as results rather than duties. Name the skills the posting asks for, such as User research, Usability testing and User interviews. Start bullets with verbs like Designed, Researched and Prototyped, and give each one a number where you honestly have one. If you hold a credential such as Nielsen Norman Group UX Certification, list it in its own section.

Research

  • User research
  • Usability testing
  • User interviews
  • Surveys
  • Card sorting
  • Competitive analysis
  • Persona development
  • Journey mapping

Design craft

  • Wireframing
  • Prototyping
  • Interaction design
  • Information architecture
  • Visual hierarchy
  • Responsive design
  • Design systems

Accessibility and quality

  • WCAG 2.2
  • Accessibility audits
  • Heuristic evaluation
  • A/B testing
  • Task success rate
  • System Usability Scale

Tools

  • Figma
  • FigJam
  • Miro
  • Maze
  • UserTesting
  • Dovetail
  • Hotjar

Collaboration

  • Design handoff
  • Agile
  • Stakeholder workshops
  • Product discovery
  • Design critiques
  • Cross-functional teams

Action verbs

  • Designed
  • Researched
  • Prototyped
  • Tested
  • Redesigned
  • Improved

Certifications

  • Nielsen Norman Group UX Certification
  • Google UX Design Professional Certificate

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Skills to put on a UX designer resume

List the hard skills the posting names in your skills section. Soft skills belong in your bullets, shown through something you did.

Hard skills

  • Moderated and unmoderated usability testing
  • Interview guides and affinity mapping
  • Information architecture and navigation design
  • Figma components, variants and auto layout
  • Prototyping interactions, errors and empty states
  • WCAG 2.2 AA checks (contrast, focus order, labels)
  • Working HTML and CSS for realistic handoff
  • Behavior data for design questions (Hotjar, GA4)

Soft skills

  • Presenting a design decision with the evidence behind it
  • Taking critique without defending every pixel
  • Designing within engineering constraints and deadlines
  • Bringing product and engineering into research sessions

UX Designer keywords recruiters scan for

Use the wording of the posting itself, and back each term with a line that proves it.

Portfolio
Put a working link in the header and mention by name the two case studies that best fit the posting.
User research
Name the method and sample, such as eight moderated sessions, and the decision it changed.
Usability testing
Report the task you tested and what improved between the first and last round.
Figma
List it once in skills, then let bullets show what you made with it, such as a tested prototype or a shared library.
Design systems
State how many components or teams relied on the system and how you kept it in step with code.
Interaction design
Describe a flow with tricky states, such as permissions or errors, that you designed and saw shipped.
Accessibility
Mention the WCAG level you designed to and one specific fix, such as focus order or contrast.
Information architecture
Point to a card sort or tree test and the navigation change that followed it.
Product designer
Add this title to your headline when the posting uses it, since many teams now call UX roles product design.
Cross-functional collaboration
Show a decision made with a PM and engineers, including a tradeoff you accepted to ship on time.

UX Designer resume bullet examples

The numbers are illustrative. Keep the structure (verb, action, measurable result) and use figures you can back up.

  • Redesigned the onboarding flow after 12 user interviews and 8 usability tests, raising activation from 41 to 56 percent in two quarters.
  • Raised task success on the checkout flow from 68 to 91 percent through iterative prototype tests with 20 participants.
  • Reduced support tickets about account settings by 27 percent by restructuring navigation after a card sorting study.
  • Built a Figma component library of 90 elements with tokens and usage notes, which cut design-to-development handoff time by a third.
  • Ran a heuristic evaluation and accessibility audit against WCAG 2.2 AA, then fixed 34 issues including contrast, focus order and form labels.
  • Created journey maps from 15 customer interviews that helped the product team pick three priorities for the next quarter.
  • Partnered with two engineers in two-week sprints, delivering annotated specs and reviewing implemented screens before release.
  • Ran A/B tests on three pricing page layouts and shipped the version that lifted trial signups by 14 percent.
  • Presented research findings to executives and secured budget to rebuild a reporting tool that users had rated 2.9 out of 5.
  • Mentored a junior designer through weekly critiques, and introduced a design review rhythm adopted by the whole product group.

How to stand out as a UX designer applicant

Tailor every application to the posting: the resume, the cover letter and the answers you prepare for the interview.

  • Lead with the case study that fits

    UX roles lean toward research, interaction design or visual and systems work. Read the posting for the one it weighs most and reorder your bullets to match. Then change the order on your portfolio landing page so the closest project is the first one a reviewer opens. Optimize your resume for a UX posting

  • Name a user problem in their product

    Open the cover letter with a user problem you noticed in the company's product, or one its users are known to face, and say briefly how you would research it. Then link the case study where you solved something similar. Keep the letter short, because the portfolio carries the visual proof. Write a UX cover letter with a case study link

  • Rehearse your portfolio presentation

    Most UX interview loops include a portfolio walkthrough and often a whiteboard or take-home challenge. Practice presenting one case study in about fifteen minutes: the problem, your role, the research, options you rejected, the final design and what happened after launch. In a live challenge, ask about the users before you sketch. Practice a UX portfolio review

Salary (official data)

Official pay statistics for the occupation that matches this role, copied exactly as each statistics office publishes them.

  • United States

    Median gross annual pay: $104,000 a year · Median gross hourly pay: $50.00 an hour

    Middle half of earners: $73,290 to $158,820 · 10th to 90th percentile: $53,750 to $201,550

    Official occupation: Web and Digital Interface Designers (SOC 15-1255)

    Gross wages of employees in all industries, before deductions; excludes the self-employed.

    Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025. Public domain.

  • United Kingdom

    Median gross annual pay: £50,963 a year

    Official occupation: Web design professionals (SOC 2020 2141)

    Gross annual pay of full-time employee jobs (employees on adult rates in the same job for more than a year).

    The publisher marks this estimate as less precise.

    Provisional figures: the publisher revises them a year later.

    Source: Office for National Statistics, Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings, tax year to 5 April 2026, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

  • Canada

    Median gross hourly pay: CA$50.48 an hour · Median gross weekly pay: CA$1,923 a week

    Official occupation group: Professional occupations in applied sciences (except engineering) (NOC 2021 212)

    Usual gross wages of full-time employees (30 hours or more a week) at their main job, including tips, commissions and bonuses.

    Source: Statistics Canada, Table 14-10-0417-01 Employee wages by occupation, annual, 2025. Reproduced and distributed on an "as is" basis with the permission of Statistics Canada (Statistics Canada Open Licence). This does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada of this product.

  • Ireland

    Mean gross annual pay of the whole major group: €70,522 a year

    Major occupation group: Professionals (ISCO-08 2)

    Mean gross annual earnings, including bonuses, for the whole major occupation group in enterprises with 10 or more employees. Eurostat publishes no median by occupation.

    Source: Eurostat, Structure of Earnings Survey (earn_ses22_28), 2022, CC BY 4.0. Ruubu matched the role to an ISCO-08 major group; Eurostat is not responsible for this use of its data.

Figures cover everyone in the official occupation, at every experience level. They are not a job offer, a forecast or a Ruubu estimate. Ruubu matches each role to the closest official occupation. An official occupation can include related jobs.

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UX Designer resume questions

Do I still need a resume if I have a portfolio?

Yes. The resume gets you past screening and links to the portfolio. Put the portfolio URL in your header where it cannot be missed.

How do I quantify design work?

Use task success rates, time-on-task, conversion, support-ticket reductions and adoption of the design systems you built.

Should I list every design tool?

List the few you use fluently, led by Figma. Hiring managers care more about your process and outcomes than tool breadth.

How do I show UX work covered by an NDA?

Describe the problem, your role, the methods and the outcome using general terms, and give figures as percentages or ranges. In the portfolio, password-protect detailed case studies and mention that you can walk through them in an interview.

What if my projects were redesigns with no measured result?

Report the research evidence you do have: how many users you tested, task success before and after, the issues you found and fixed, and feedback from stakeholders. Be honest about what was measured, and do not invent conversion lifts.

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