A UX CV serves your portfolio. The portfolio does 80% of the convincing; the CV fills in the context. What a portfolio can't show: team context, sector experience, design system ownership, methodological preferences.
Portfolio link prominent
Portfolio link is the first clickable element after your name. Or a portfolio tour invitation in your profile summary. Then two sentences on your design genre (product / interaction / service / research) and sector focus.
Experience with team context
Per role: company, product, team size and composition, your role in design decisions. "UX designer at Company X" is empty; "Sole designer for two engineering teams at Series A scale-up — owner of design system and weekly research sessions" is strong.
Research and design system work mentioned separately. Those are weighty contributions that don't always land in a portfolio case.
Tooling kept subtle
Figma is standard (still mention it). Plus: design system tools (Figma libraries, Storybook), research tools (Maze, Dovetail, Lookback), prototyping (Framer, ProtoPie). Specific skills like motion or front-end (HTML/CSS) if genuinely strong.
Concrete example bullets
- Sole product designer for scale-up checkout team; developed design system v1 and v2 (Figma library used by 4 product teams).
- Led research sprints (5-day Discovery → 5-day Define) for 6 features in 2024; each shipped with validation before build.
- Co-built company design handbook with 2 design leads; published internally Q3 2024.
- Tools: Figma, FigJam, Maze, Dovetail, Notion. Methodology: jobs-to-be-done, continuous discovery.
- Portfolio: [link]. Bachelor Communication & Multimedia Design (HAN, 2017).
Pitfalls for this role
- CV without portfolio link. Direct skip — UX recruiters click portfolio first.
- "UI/UX/Product" merged without distinction. Three disciplines with overlap, not synonyms.
- Tools list of twenty items. Suggests no specialism.
- No research or design system work mentioned. For senior roles this weighs more than visual cases.
Design roles let you show typographic sense. Creative fits; Experimental for studios.
Salary indication 2026 (NL): junior UX €40–55k, mid €55–75k, senior €75–95k, lead/staff €95–125k.