on average a recruiter only looks at your resume for 6 seconds and in today's video I will teach
you how to write a ux design resume that impresses a recruiter in 6 seconds regardless whether you
have real life ux design project or not this video is made for you first thing first I will
challenge you to forget about your old resume and then think about writing a new one for 2023
let's open up a Google doc and let's get started please use this structure regardless how much
ux experience you have your basic info on top experience as the first and as the main section
skills as the second section you can copy exactly what I have here education as the last section
and you don't have to explain your education this structure helps you to brand yourself as
an experienced designer type these down in a Google doc now for the experience section
please first brainstorm what have you done in the past especially what you've done in ux design or
product design or anything that brought you to ux or product design now remember regardless how many
experience you have working in the past choose four most related experiences only quality more
than quantity you shall prioritize the most recent user experience design real life project and bring
that to the first real life project means that you worked on a project that actually got built
or you worked in a team as a user experience or product designer if you don't have a real
life ux product what you can do is bring your your personal project at first but it has to relate to
user experience design now if you don't have any user experience design related project nor design
related project then I don't think rewriting your resume shall be your current focus you should
spend more time on learning user experience design product design and then try to do two
or three personal projects but you are still very welcome to watch until the end for the experience
header you can simply put UX designer at blah blah blah blah blah blah blah can be the company
name or your project name so here what I had is ux designer at KEES KEES is a startup name ux
design intern at like the bamboo like the bamboo is a company name ux designer at Mama book Mama
book is a personal project name and ux research intern at Stanford D school for the last one I
chose a ux related experience and you can do the same to put in your most recent job experience or
other types of experience underneath each header put in where you did the job put in the location
of the experience and then the time frame of the experience and make sure it's chronological now
I will teach you a super simple brainstorming technique I use when I try to think about what
bullet points I need to put for each experience so on the Google Doc just put in before what I
did and after and then just brainstorm and dump everything about what is the company like before
you are here into the before section and then under what I did brainstorm some points about what
you actually did during the internship or during the experience or during the job and then under
after section brainstorm what was your company like or what was the project like after you finish
the experience let me first give you an example of a personal project this one is for Mama book
so before I started this product there's nothing because personal project you take things from zero
to one there's no product there's no mama book I also did this personalized product because I
realized there's not so much customizable journal for people like me who like writing journals what
I did during the project I initiated a project that's for sure it's my personal project and
I design a responsive website by Adobe XD that allows users to customize a physical notebook and
I finished the entire user flow for customizing a Notebook online I did three rounds of user testing
on around 5 participants I did a competitive analysis I did sketches wireframing prototyping
I presented the idea online on YouTube and then I managed the project all by myself because come on
I'm the only person doing the project now for the after part this is actually really hard
for personal project but you still have to say your impact regardless whether your product is
launched or not so here's what I thought of at least I got some great feedback after the user
testing and I generated some views on YouTube that can count as user interest or product exposure and
that's it for this brainstorming session now I'll teach you how to turn this into this all you need
to do is to compare what is before and what's after to figure out your impact and then combine
one impact point with one action point from the second what I did part start this bullet point by
choosing an action verb that best describes the action you did and also bringing one number this
number will be great if it is on the impact it's okay if you don't know the exact number and it's
okay to estimate the metrics for example my first bullet point is initiated a project that helps
Journal writers to customize their personal journal online that generated 283k plus user
interest so the impact here is that I generated around 283k user interest and then the action I
did is initiated the project and the number I use is on the metrics and remember we are writing the
phrase try to bring one detail about the product you were designing for so that it doesn't sounds
like this bullet point can be copied from another designer's resume and directly paste here here I
specifically mentioned Journal writers which is the target market for my personal project
another example for the bullet point designed a journal customization user flow under four months
for a responsive website using Adobe XD through sketching wireframing prototyping and user testing
here the action verb I chose is designed and the impact is finished designing this customization
user flows I don't have a number to bring here so the trick I did is bringing the number of months
I did the project and the technical words related to ux design that I used include
sketching wireframing prototyping user testing and Adobe XD the third point I said is conducted
user experience research with a focus group of five to iterate on early Design Concepts that
led to 28 NPS increase the action verb I used is conducted the impact is 28 NPS increase the action
is added user experiment research the numbers are 5 and 28% and then the ux keywords are ux research
focus group and here NPS means net promoter score it's a very popular metrics that measures how well
do people like your product all you want to do is ask on the scale of 1 to 10 how likely would
you recommend this product to your friend and final bullet point I said is managed the project
using the Agile development framework to assure efficiency and quality delivery every under four
month action verb managed impact delivered the project under four months action is manage the
project using Agile development framework and the key word is Agile development framework you need
to frame your personal product in a way where it sounds like you are an entrepreneur instead
of like you are inexperienced and beginning this field you cannot find a real life experience at
the moment so you did something on your own now if you have a real life ux project keep
watching because I will show you how to write about a real world ux project first brainstorm
what is the company like before you're here then brainstorm butcher did in the experience and then
brainstorm what was the company like after you left the job let's say I did an intern at this
company called like the bamboo so before I was here the company has a horrible outdated website
company does not attract the attention of gen Z audience the company is experiencing a decline
in the website visiting number and what I did is that I did user research and competitive analysis
I redesigned the entire website the wireframe and prototyping in figma I created a design
system I collaborated with the founder and the software engineers and then I worked with the
front-end Engineers provided feedback to code out the website what happens after is that we
relaunch the website and then generated more gen Z interest increased the retention by 22 percent
increase visitors by 23 percent especially younger audience and increased company sales by 25% it
will be great if you can get these numbers if you cannot get these numbers get whatever numbers you
can and if you can't get anything just estimate it now I need to turn this into this again let's
take one impact one action and then when you're writing this paragraph start it with an action
verb bring one number and bring in some ux design related keywords so for the first one
increase the company website with the volume by 23 by redesigning the website to adapt to mobile
devices and incorporate the modern aesthetic through two rounds of sketching wireframe and
prototyping the impact is increasing the visiting volume the action is redesigning the website the
first action verb is increased the numbers are 23 and 2 and the keywords are sketching wireframe in
prototyping here another trick I did to add another number is to include how many rounds
of iterations you've actually done second point attractive gen Z audience through upgrading to
a more modern branding and creating an expandable design system of a plus elements that aligns with
the new brand guide the impact here is attracted gen Z audience the action is building and design
system the action verb is attracted the number is 80 plus and the keywords are design system
brand guide here another number trick I did is to include how many elements are in the design system
third point improved the website retention rate by 22 by introducing a stronger design hierarchy
that simplifies the user flow for customizing a product impact here is increased retention
action is introducing a stronger design hierarchy and the action verb is improved number is 22 the
keywords are design hierarchy and user flow finally collaborated with the product manager
and the front-end engineering team using the Agile development framework to ensure quality
delivery under four months here the impact is deliver the thing under four months the
action is collaboration the action verb is collaborated and the number is four and the
keywords are Agile development framework and the trick I did here is bringing the
number of months that I worked in the project as the number I will give you another example
for ux real life project this is for if you are designing for apps so ux designer at KEES
before what I did after it's listed here and then I turn this into this pause the video if
you want to read more carefully now if you don't have enough ux experience to cover over all four
experiences as you as UX related things you can bring one or two other experiences so here's an
example you brainstorm was accompanied or the project like before you were there after you
were there and what you did during the time you were working on the project and the trick I did
here is to actually emphasis on how this relates to ux design so what I said is that I brought
significant insight to the ux design team and if you just can't figure out how your past job
relates to ux design what you can also do is to highlight your soft skills which are collaboration
skills management skills leadership skills and communication skills so do this for all the four
experiences that you want to write in your resume and once you are done you can make a copy of this
file and delete all the brainstorming bullet points and the final step is to polish up the
visualization of your resume and you don't have to go fancy it's perfectly fine to use Google
Docs I actually recommend you to use Google Docs just in case the companies you are applying to
to use those digital resume reading tool that actually might not read two columns design very
well here's the key fit everything on one page minimum font style to use 11 pixel you might
need to decrease the page margin a little bit and you can fit date and work title into the
same line and please keep your background as plain white and if you want to gray out certain elements
you can do it but make sure it's still accessible I've seen some resume where the date just look a
little bit too transparent that I can't even see it and boom here you go nice and whatever I said
here worked for me and I really hope that it will work for you as well if you have any other tip
please leave a comment in the comment section below and if you like this video you will also
like this video that's coming up next I am Aliena Cai I will see you in this video Happy New Year