How to write a UX designer resume?

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But worry not, to make the process of making a UI resume effortless for you, UI developer resume writing experts at Hiration have explained their procedure of making a UX design resume in detail in this article. All you have to do is to follow this step by step guide to make a UX resume that spells 'perfection'.

We've given a UI developer resume sample below for you to refer and see how a UX design resume should ideally look like:

Here's a summary of what you would find in this guide:

• How to write your UI developers resume headline the correct way.
• Which sections to include if you are an entry-level professional.
• Which font type and size to use for writing your UX resume.
• When to make a summary section and when to go for an objective section.

The key tips for a UX designer resume

1. If you have a middle name, then just write the first initial of your middle name
2. Include objective and internship sections if you are an entry-level professional
3. Make a summary section if you have over 3 years of professional experience
4. Write your name between font size of 14-16 pt. & resume content between 10-12 pt.

To reduce the effort that goes into making a UI developer resume, use Hiration's Online Resume Builder where you will get ready to use:

1. Design Templates
2. Content Templates
3. Pre-fixed font size for each section along with the font type
4. Option to uniformly increase or decrease the overall spacing of your user experience resume
5. Option to save unlimited PDFs of your UI resume with just a click of a button

If you still opt for making your UI developers resume by yourself, then continue reading this article to create a UX resume that looks like it has been made by UX designer resume experts.

Moreover, we've given UX resume examples and UI developer resume samples after each step to provide you with greater clarity and a better understanding of each step.

In addition to this, after you've completed your UI developer resume, you can opt for Hiration's Free Resume Reviewing Service where industry experts will review your UX designer resume to check its readability to pass the 10-second test of the recruiters.

"People ignore design that ignores people."
- Frank Chimero

Likewise, recruiters tend to ignore those resumes whose content is not written properly and especially not customized as per the job description post by the recruiter.

But do not fret as our article will explain exactly how to write the content of your UI developers resume as well as how to customize it as per the job description.

Further, do not forget to read the 'Key Takeaways' section given at the end of the article for some hacks that will make sure that your UI developer resume can get you your desired job.

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UX Designer Job Description

A job description for a UX designer can include the following duties and responsibilities:

• Translating concepts into wireframes, prototypes, user flows, and mockups to provide a user-friendly experience.
• Designing user stories, mockups, wireframes, and user journeys that are optimized for a variety of interfaces and devices.
• Making strategic designs for new and core features and functions.
• Conducting usability and concept testing and gathering feedback.
• Defining interaction models and evaluating their performance.
• Planning and conducting competitor analysis and user research.
• Creating storyboards and personas.
• Evaluating existing applications effectiveness.
• Tracking usability goals and drafting reports on the same.
• Developing business and technical requirements.

UX Designer Salary

According to skillcrush.com, entry-level UX designers get an approximate salary of $6,000 per month whereas those at a senior post earn an approximate salary of $9,000 per month.

And let us just tell you that the UX designer resume and your salary are very closely related to each other. UX resume being the first point of contact between you and the recruiter, it also tells the recruiter the number of years of experience you have.

And as you must know, the number of years of experience is an important factor which the recruiters consider while offering a certain amount of salary to someone.

Further, you can use Hiration's Online Resume Builder for effortless user interface developer resume making. Our Online Resume Builder has content templates specific to your job profile, all you have to do is to edit the content in it according to the work which you have done.

These user experience resume content templates are made by industry experts who hold expertise in the field of UX designing and will increase the possibility of getting you your desired job by multiple folds.

Being a UX designer also gives you the freedom to get little creative when it comes to UX designer resume design templates. And guess what? We've just got the right design templates for a profile like yours.

Our Online Resume Builder offers 25+ design templates and with that wide variety of design templates, we're sure you'll find the one that fulfills your need completely. By opting for Hiration's Online Resume Builder you won't have to spend n number of days and nights in beautifying your UI developer resume.

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What Is A UX Designer Resume & Why Do You Need It?

A user interface developer resume informs the recruiters about how and in what all work a UX designer is skilled at.

A UX designer's job requires him/her to conduct tests and user researches.

They often collaborate with Developers and Designers to make user-friendly software.

A UI resume contains all the information that one has done around these functions and conveys it to the recruiters. Also, a UX designer resume acts as the first point of contact between the recruiter and the applicant.

Having a UI developer resume is important as it will contain all the work which you've done in your previous companies in detail as after years of working in a company, you may remember the broad level work which you did in that company, but you sure will forget the details and the impact your work made on the business.

How To Write A UX Designer Resume?

Further, in this article, we've explained how to make a UI designer resume in 10 easy steps.

Broadly, a user interface developer resume will be made in 3 stages, which are further broken down into 10 easy to follow steps.

Master UX Designer Resume

Start with making a master UI developer resume which is the proprietary method of Hiration's resume making process.

A master UX designer resume not only helps in making your current UI designer resume, but it will also be of a lot of help when you'll need to update your existing UI developer resume in the future for a new job.

All you need to make a master user interface developer resume is to dump all the information related to your UX designer resume, from the very little details to the big ones, everything, at a single place so that you don't have to go looking for information when we proceed further in the UI developer resume making process.

Then when we move further in the process of making a UI designer resume, all you have to do is to pick the most important information from your master UX resume and include it in the final user interface developer resume.

The whole concept of a master UI developer resume is just to collect all the information related to your UI resume in a single place.

Also, if you skip this first stage of making a master UX designer resume and just skip to making your final UI designer resume, there is a high probability that you'll end up missing on including some of the most important works which you did as part of your job in your last company.

The master UX designer resume will serve as a rough outline of your final UX resume. When you'll have this rough outline ready, all you'll have to do in your final user interface developer resume is to tweak the information a little to write it as per the correct method of writing a UX resume.

The last thing to do after you're done collecting all the information in a single document is to start with making your professional experience section.

First Draft UX Designer Resume

In the second stage of UX resume making, which is the first draft, you will complete the other sections of the UI developer resume like that of the header, contact information, profile title, education, certification, and additional information sections.

Final UX Designer Resume

Now, by this final stage, three things are left to do. They are:

1. Make your key skills and technical skills sections. Scan the whole of your professional experience and job description to pick out your functional & technical skills for your UI resume.
2. Compose your summary section. To write your summary, scan the whole of your professional experience section again and pick out 3 points which you think are the strongest points of your UI developer resume. Then use these points to write an impactful summary.
3. Highlighting and bolding. The last and final thing to do in your UX designer resume is to highlight and bold all the important words, phrases, and numbers throughout your UX resume except the summary section.

UX Designer Resume Sections

Arrange your UX resume sections in the order given below:

1. Header
2. Personal Information
3. Profile Title
4. Summary
5. Key Skills
6. Technical Skills
7. Professional Experience
8. Education
9. Certifications
10. Additional Information

UX Designer Resume: Professional Experience

Step 1

As mentioned in stage one above, when making your UX resume, start with making your professional experience section. In this section, you've to write all the duties which you performed as part of all your previous jobs.

Also, make sure you highlight your achievement in each of the points and do not just end up listing your responsibilities.

Framing Points In Your UX Designer Resume Professional Experience Section

The most important thing to make sure while writing your work experience related points is that you use the cause-effect method of writing UI resume points.

The cause-effect methodology of framing UX designer resume points makes sure that both, what you did and why you did it are written in a point, thus, providing complete information.

With the help of UX resume examples, we will show you how to write your professional experience points using the cause-effect methodology.

UI developer resume example 1:

• Designing and implementing UI
• Developing new UI specifications and mockups
• Liaising with customers, technology team and subject matter experts
• Producing graphic user interfaces
• Reviewing the financial aspects of product development
• Developing engaging and intuitive experiences

UI developer resume example 1 points are written without using the cause-effect method and so, you can see they do not provide complete information around what the person did and why he/she did so.

UI developer resume example 2:

• Designing and implementing end-to-end UI and leading the launch of the company's new website
• Developing new UI specifications and mockups for yearly events
• Liaising with customers, technology team and subject matter experts to identify requirements and analyze user needs
• Producing graphic user interfaces for tablets, desktop browsers, and mobile devices
• Reviewing the financial aspects of product development like expenditures and research as well as budgets and development appropriations
• Developing engaging and intuitive experiences for the product

UI developer resume example 2 points are written using the cause-effect methodology and you can see how they are providing complete information. By reading these points, one gets complete clarity about what the person did and why he/she did so.

Grouping And Highlighting In Your UX Designer Professional Experience Section

Grouping and highlighting are an important aspect of making the professional experience section as they help in increasing the readability of the content within this section.

Again, let us show you this with the help of UX resume examples.

UI developer resume example 1:

• Designing and implementing end-to-end UI and leading the launch of the company's new website
• Developing new UI specifications and mockups for yearly events while working on Agile environment & ScrumWorks
• Liaising with customers, technology team and subject matter experts to identify requirements and analyze user needs
• Producing graphic user interfaces for tablets, desktop browsers, and mobile devices
• Reviewing the financial aspects of product development like expenditures and research as well as budgets and development appropriations
• Developing engaging and intuitive experiences for the product while managing & guiding contractors to meet deadlines

Recruiters just read a resume for 6 to 10 seconds and by reading the points above, they won't be able to read as much information as you'd like them to.

UI developer resume example 2:

UI Designing & Implementation

• Designing and implementing end-to-end UI and leading the launch of company's new website
• Developing new UI specifications and mockups for yearly events while working on Agile environment & ScrumWorks
• Liaising with customers, technology team and subject matter experts to identify requirements and analyze user needs

Graphic User Interface Development & Financial Reviewing

• Producing graphic user interfaces for tablets, desktop browsers and mobile devices
• Reviewing the financial aspects of product development like expenditures and research as well as budgets and development appropriations
• Developing engaging and intuitive experiences for the product while managing & guiding contractors to meet deadlines

UI developer resume example 2 points have the methods of bucketing and bolding used in them which will enable the recruiter to read much more information now in just 6-10 seconds.

Also, just by reading the buckets 'UI Designing & Implementation' and 'Graphic User Interface Development & Financial Reviewing the recruiter will get a broad level idea of the works in which you are skilled at, thus, giving him more time to read other sections of your UX resume in just 6-10 seconds.

Take a glimpse at the sample UI developer resume professional experience section given below to get a clear idea of how a properly made professional experience section should look like:

Writing UX Designer Resume: Header

Step 2

Step 2 involves making the user interface developer resume header, which is supposed to be the top-most thing in your UX designer resume.

Now, the question is: Why is it important to include a header in your UI developer resume?

So, here's the answer, it is important to have a header written at the top of your UX designer resume as it distinguishes your UX resume from hundreds and thousands of other UX designer resumes which have come in for the same position.

A UX resume header is made up of your name. Also, the UX designer resume header should be the largest text in the whole of your UI developer resume. It should be written between the font size of 14-16 points. Along with this, make sure the spacing in your UX researcher resume header is correct.

And in case you have a middle name, then use the below-given format to write your name.

Mary E. Fanning

Only write the first initial of your middle name and then put a full-stop after it.

If you opt to make your UX resume on your own, then pay attention to the UI developer resume sample header provided below:

UX Designer Resume: Personal Information

Step 3

Step 3 is to make the personal information section. You've to provide only the below given 3 things as part of your personal information.

1. Personal Mobile Number

If you use more than one mobile number, then do not write all of them in the personal information section. Provide only one number which you use the most. By writing more than one number, you'll create unnecessary confusion and the recruiter might end up not calling you.

Write the personal mobile number just below the UX designer resume headline on the left side.

When writing the personal mobile number, make sure you write the International Subscriber Dialing (ISD) code of your country first and do add a plus sign (+) before it. Give a single space after the ISD code and then write the first five digits of your mobile number.

Then add another space and then write the remaining five digits of your persona mobile number.

2. Personal E-mail ID

The second thing to write in the personal information section is the personal e-mail ID. Write it next to the personal mobile number, in the middle. Make sure your e-mail ID name is appropriate for writing in a UX resume. It shouldn't be something like 'sexysophia@hiration.com'. E-mail ID names like these are a strict no-no.

Go for something that looks professional, like 'mary@hiration.com'. Along with the personal e-mail ID, you can also provide hyperlinks to your social media handles or any personal portfolio if you have.

If you opt for providing hyperlinks, make sure the content of these social media handles is in sync with the one in your UI developer resume.

3. Current Location

The last personal information you need to provide is your current location of residence. Write it on the right side, next to the personal e-mail ID.

If you're living in a city that is not your hometown, then write the name of the city where you're living presently.

Also, do not write your complete residential address, it won't serve any purpose to the recruiter. Just write the city name followed by country ISO code. Just writing these two things is enough for the recruiter to know if you'll be relocating in case you join the company.

Take a glimpse at the sample UI developer resume personal information section provided below to get more clarity on how to make your personal information section:

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UX Designer Resume: Profile Title

Step 4

Step 4 is to include a profile title in your UX designer resume.

To let the recruiters know for which profile you've applied for, it is important to include a profile title in your UX resume.

Adding a profile title also helps a recruiter to decide whether he/she should read your UI resume further or not.

So, make sure you write 'UX Designer' as your profile title before sending your UX resume to any recruiter or before uploading it on any of the job portals.

Have a glance at the UI developer resume sample profile title provided below to get more clarity on how to customize your profile title:

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UX Designer Resume: Education

Step 5

Step 5 involves making the education section of the UX researcher resume.

The education section contains information around your education like the name of the school/university attended, courses pursued, location of the school/university, and the dates of enrollment and graduation from each course (in mm/yy - mm/yy format), etc.

The information given around your education needs to be 100% correct as only based on this information the recruiters can decide if you are qualified enough for the job or not which you have applied for.

The sample UI developer resume education section provided below will provide you much more clarity around how to compose your education section:

UX Designer Resume: Certifications

Step 6

Step 6 is to make a certification section in your UI developer resume.

If you've done any certifications related to UX designing then include it in this section as they are very valuable for your target profile.

When making this section, first write the name of the certification course, then secondly write the name of the certifying authority, thirdly write the location, and at last, write the dates for the duration for which you pursued this course (in mm/yy - mm/yy format).

Look at the UI developer resume sample certifications section provided below to get a greater understanding of how to make this section:

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UX Designer Resume: Additional Information

Step 7

Step 7 is to make the additional information section.

In the additional information section, you can provide additional information like your hobbies as well as language if you are bilingual or multilingual.

See the sample UI developer resume additional information section provided below to get more clarity on how to frame this section:

Your UX Designer Resume: Key Skills

Step 8

Step 8 is to make the 5th section of your UI resume which is the key skills section.

Now, we're making the key skills section at this stage so that you can scan the whole of your professional experience section to get the maximum number of skills that you can write in your key skills section.

When making your key skills section, ensure that all your skills just come in 3 lines and that they do not breach the limit of 3 lines. After you're done writing your key skills section, make sure that you bold the whole of the key skills section.

Have a quick look at the UI developer resume sample key skills section provided below to get a better idea of how to make your key skills section:

UX Designer: Technical Skills

Step 9

Step 9 is to make your technical skills section.

If you know how to use HTML, JavaScript, CSS, etc. then all these will be included in the technical skills section under respective sub-headings. After you've finished writing your technical skills section, bold all the sub-headings.

Doing so will automatically attract the eye of the recruiters and just by having a glance at the sub-headings will give them a broad idea of what all technical skills you have.

The sample UI developer resume technical skills section provided will give you a better understanding of how to make your technical skills section:

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UX Designer Resume: Summary

Step 10

Step 10 and the last step is to make the summary section.

We make this section at the end so that you can refer to the professional experience section and then pick the top 3 points from it.

After picking the top 3 points from your professional experience section, rephrase them along the lines of how you can use your skills and do the same for the organization and benefit it.

Look at the UI developer resume sample summary section provided below to get a better idea of how to optimize your summary section:

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UX Designer Fresher Resume

If you are a fresher in the field of UX designing then make an internship section in place of the professional experience section. Being a fresher it is expected that one must have done 1 or 2 internships during his/her graduation period, which adds a lot of value to your fresher UX resume.

Having an internship section in a fresher UI developer resume conveys to the recruiter that you have a basic level of practical knowledge about the profile which you have applied for.

Follow the method explained above for making the professional experience section to make your internships section.

The second section which you need to include in a UI resume if you are a fresher is that of the objective section. In place of a summary section, include an objective section. In the objective section explain what you can do for the company instead of writing what you expect the company to provide you with.

UX Designer Resume Word Template

If you use Hiration's Professional Resume Review Service, then your UI developer resume will be reviewed to fulfill the below-given parameters.

1. Compliance with industry norms
2. If its recruiter friendly
3. Its Global Compatibility
4. Performance Assessment (How well you have written your resume to get shortlisted)
5. Design Compatibility
6. Conversion Scope
7. ATS Compliance
8. Relevant Content
9. UI Resume Formatting (font, margins, the order of sections, etc.)
10. Job Title

Along with this, we also provide 2 free word templates for you to use.

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UX Designer Resume PDF

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1. Option to save unlimited resumes
2. 25+ resume designs
3. Full rich-text editor
4. Unlimited PDF downloads
5. 100+ content templates
6. 1-click design change
7. A sharable link
8. Live resume editor

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Key Takeaways

1. Throughout your education and certifications section make sure to write dates (in mm/yy - mm/yy format) for enrollment and graduation. Along with this, ensure that the dates throughout your UI developer resume are right-aligned.
2. If you've been a part of any major projects in any of your work experiences, then do not forget to write about those projects in the respective work experience section. It will help in adding value to that particular work experience section.
3. If you're a fresher, then you can also add an extracurricular achievements section in your UX designer resume to add value to your UX resume.
4. Do not add headers like that of 'mobile' or 'e-mail' in the personal information section.
5. Do not use any phrases in your key skills and technical skills sections like 'experience in' or 'expertise in'. Just write the skill and that's it.
6. When framing the points of your professional experience section try to mention the stakeholders involved (internal and external) who benefited from your contribution and how.
7. Try to provide performance figures throughout your professional experience section.
8. Do not underline anything in your UI developer resume.
9. If you were leading teams in any of your work profiles, then make sure to mention that in the specific work experience section along with the number of people you were leading.
10. If you got an award or recognition in any of your work profiles, then make a 'Key Achievements' bucket at the end of that respective work profile and write about your award or recognition under that bucket.

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