Product & UI/UX Design · Senior (4+ yrs)

Senior UX/UI Designer Resume

This sample shows how a senior designer can explain research, interaction design, and design system work through product outcomes. A strong resume connects those decisions to user needs, product goals, and collaboration with engineering.

Summary

Senior UX/UI designer with 7 years of experience shaping B2B SaaS products for operations and finance teams. Combines user research, interaction design, and design system practice to simplify complex workflows, validate decisions with usability testing, and partner with product and engineering teams from discovery through release.

Experience

Senior UX/UI Designer at Alder Creek Product Co. (2022 – Present) - Redesigned invoice approval flows using customer interviews and Figma prototypes, reducing median task completion time by 18% in moderated usability tests. - Built a shared component library with product and engineering, cutting design handoff revisions from about 10 to 6 per release. - Tested navigation changes with 12 customer participants and reorganized the information architecture, reducing the median path to account settings from five clicks to three in follow-up sessions. UX Designer at Copper Mesa Software (2019 – 2022) - Mapped onboarding journeys from support tickets and interviews, then prototyped clearer setup steps that reduced first-week setup questions by 14%. - Ran monthly usability sessions on reporting tools and translated findings into 8 interface updates shipped across two releases for a six-person product team.

Education

Bachelor of Fine Arts in Communication Design — Westline College of Design (2019)

Skills

Figma
User Research
Interaction Design
Wireframing
Prototyping
Design Systems
Usability Testing
Information Architecture
Accessibility Reviews
Product Discovery

Selected work

• B2B invoice approval redesign: research, flows, prototypes, and usability findings • Reporting dashboard refresh: navigation model and annotated interface designs

Tools

• Figma, FigJam, Adobe Illustrator • Jira, Miro, Maze

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DesignedResearchedMappedPrototypedTestedSimplifiedImproved

How to write a Senior UX/UI Designer resume

Lead with product outcomes

Put your most recent senior design role first, then use the summary to name the product setting and the kinds of problems you solve. In each bullet, connect the design work to an observable result, such as fewer steps in a workflow, less support contact, or faster task completion. Explain the measure briefly so readers can tell whether it came from research, product analytics, or delivery data.

Show how you made decisions

Senior designers are expected to frame problems as well as deliver screens. Include examples of how interviews, analytics, support patterns, or usability sessions changed a flow or priority. State the audience and method where useful, then describe the design decision and its outcome. Avoid listing activities like “conducted research” without showing what the findings helped the team do.

Make your portfolio easy to review

Add a portfolio link near your contact details and choose case studies that show different parts of the work, such as discovery, complex interaction design, or a shared system. Explain your role, collaborators, constraints, and what shipped. Use password instructions only when needed, and remove confidential customer details, internal metrics, or work you are not authorized to share.

Describe accessibility and tools

Name tools such as Figma when they are relevant, but give more space to your design judgment and shipped work. If accessibility is part of your practice, describe the checks you performed, such as keyboard review, contrast review, or screen reader testing, and the changes that followed. List only standards or methods you can discuss confidently; a UX/UI role does not require a universal license.

Questions about this role

How long should a senior UX/UI designer resume be?

Two pages can work well for a senior designer with several relevant projects and roles. Keep the first page focused on your summary, core skills, and strongest recent outcomes. Trim older or unrelated work before reducing useful context about your contribution, product setting, and results. Your portfolio can carry detailed case studies that would make the resume too dense.

Should I include a portfolio link on my resume?

Yes, when you have work you are allowed to share. Put a clear portfolio URL near the top and make sure its case studies explain your individual role, the problem, your process, and what happened after launch. If work is confidential, use an approved anonymized case study or note that selected examples are available on request; do not disclose protected client or company information.

Which certifications should a UX/UI designer list?

There is no single license or certification required for UX/UI design roles in the United States. List relevant completed training or credentials only when they support the job you are targeting, and include the issuer and completion date when useful. Practical evidence such as research methods, accessibility reviews, and shipped product work is often more informative than a long list of short courses.

Can I move into senior UX/UI design from another field?

A career change is possible, but the resume should make your design experience and scope easy to assess. Put relevant product, research, interaction, or visual design projects first, including credible work from contract, volunteer, or internal projects. Show how you worked with stakeholders and developers, what you contributed, and what changed. Use the portfolio to explain the process behind selected examples.