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UI Designer to Product Designer

A designer whose resume listed screens delivered, rebuilt around research she ran, a design system she owns and a flow that measurably improved.

What the candidate wanted

A product design role with research ownership, on a product team rather than in a delivery pipeline.

Industry
Software products and platforms
Experience level
Mid level
Categories
Creative, Experienced Professionals, IT

Fictional candidate, created for demonstration. Select the document to read it full size.

The same person, twice.

Nothing was invented between these two documents. The facts are identical. What changed is which facts are visible and how they are described.

What they arrived with

What they left with

How we approached it

A designer's portfolio does the visual persuading. The resume has a narrower job: to prove that the portfolio work was driven by decisions rather than handed down as a brief.

Hers described output volume, fourteen sites and two apps, which reads as production capacity. We replaced volume with three pieces of evidence: research she ran herself, a system other squads adopted, and a flow whose abandonment rate fell.

The tool list was cut rather than extended. A product design role does not care about Photoshop, and listing it alongside Figma quietly signals that the candidate has not made the transition.

What actually changed

  1. 01

    The portfolio link moved to line three

    It was in the footer of page two. For a design application it is the single most clicked element on the document and now sits in the contact line.

  2. 02

    Research ownership was made explicit

    'Conducted user research' became a monthly cadence of six to eight sessions that she runs and writes up, which is what separates a product designer from a UI designer.

  3. 03

    The design system became an outcome

    A 40-component library adopted by three squads, with handoff time falling from days to hours, replaced 'created reusable components in Figma'.

  4. 04

    One flow was quantified

    Mid-flow abandonment falling from 18 to 7 percent over two releases gives an interviewer something specific to ask about, and she can walk through exactly how it happened.

  5. 05

    Accessibility was named

    She had been designing to WCAG AA and checking contrast for two years without ever writing it down. It is a hiring criterion at most serious product teams.

  6. 06

    The tool list was cut in half

    Photoshop, Illustrator, CorelDRAW and InDesign were removed. Keeping them made the resume read as a graphic designer applying to a product role.

Decisions inside the document

Four choices we make on every resume, and how they were resolved here.

Presenting skills

Design, Research, Tools and Handoff. Handoff exists as its own group because collaboration with engineers is the most common failure point in product design hiring, and naming tokens and documentation addresses it directly.

Presenting projects

No projects section. The portfolio link carries project depth far better than a resume ever can, so the page stays focused on ownership and outcomes.

ATS-conscious structure

Product design roles are often posted as 'UX designer' or 'product designer' interchangeably, so both appear on the page, along with Figma named exactly.

Visual design

A two-column layout with chipped skill groups. A design candidate's document is itself a work sample, so it has to be composed carefully without becoming a demonstration of layout tricks that fail to parse.

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