Your Name

Junior UX Designer — transitioning from digital design

📧 yourname@email.com · 🔗 linkedin.com/in/yourname · 🌐 portfolio.com · 📍 London, UK

Professional Summary

Digital designer with [X] years of experience crafting visual interfaces across [industries], now focusing on user-centred design. My background in layout, typography, and brand systems pairs with a growing practice in UX research, information architecture, and interaction design — enabling me to bridge the gap between visual polish and meaningful usability.

Tip: Lead with the transition framing. Hiring managers read this first — make clear you're bringing design depth into UX, not starting from scratch.

Skills

UX Methods

User research
Wireframing
Usability testing
Information architecture
User flows & journey maps

Design Craft

Visual design systems
Typography & layout
Responsive design
Brand identity

Tools

Figma / FigJam
Adobe Creative Suite
Prototyping (Figma / Maze)

Experience

Senior Digital Designer

Studio / Company Name · 20XX – Present

Collaborated with product teams to define visual design systems, improving consistency across [X] digital touchpoints (systems thinking)
Conducted stakeholder workshops to translate briefs into structured design concepts, reducing revision rounds by X% (facilitation)
Iterated on designs based on client feedback cycles — proto-UX process of test, revise, validate (iteration)
Translated complex content requirements into clear visual hierarchies for web and app interfaces (IA-adjacent)

Digital Designer

Previous Company · 20XX – 20XX

Designed responsive web experiences for [X] campaigns, considering user goals and navigation flows
Partnered with developers to ensure design intent was preserved — building empathy for technical constraints
Created prototype decks for client presentations, gathering early feedback before production

Tip: Don't just list what you made — reframe each bullet around the problem, user, or decision it addressed. Swap "designed homepage" for "redesigned homepage navigation to reduce user drop-off at key conversion step."

UX Projects & Case Studies

Project Name — e.g. App onboarding redesign

Personal / Freelance / Course

Brief 1–2 sentence framing: what was the problem, who were the users, what did you do and why does it matter?

Methods used: User interviews · Affinity mapping · Lo-fi wireframes · Usability testing · Hi-fi prototype

Project Name — e.g. Accessibility audit & redesign

Self-initiated

Choose a live product you use, audit it against WCAG, and redesign 2–3 flows. Shows initiative + methodology.

Methods used: Heuristic evaluation · WCAG audit · Competitive analysis · Figma prototype

Tip: Even 1–2 solid case studies beat 10 portfolio pieces with no process shown. Each case study should follow: problem → research → insight → design → outcome. Link to your portfolio in the header.