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Product Designer resume example
The portfolio carries the craft; the resume has to carry the outcomes and the scope. Most designers duplicate their portfolio and lose the screen.
What we would lead with
- Business outcomes your design work moved
- Scope: which surfaces, how many users, what team
- Research: whether you find problems or only style solutions
The mistake we would warn you about
Describing the process instead of the result. "Ran discovery, wireframed, tested" is what every designer does. What changed?
Bullet points that work for product designers
Each one opens with an action verb, says what was done, and ends with a result.
- Redesigned the reconciliation screen, cutting task time from 12 minutes to 4 in usability testing.
- Built the design system now used by 4 teams, cutting new-screen build time roughly in half.
- Ran 30 customer interviews that reframed a requested feature into a smaller change with better retention.
- Raised WCAG conformance to AA across the core product, fixing 140 issues alongside two engineers.
Skills to list as a product designer
Design
Interaction designDesign systemsPrototypingFigma
Research
User interviewsUsability testingSurvey design
Collaboration
Design critiqueDeveloper handoffAccessibility