Please use this thread to give and receive feedback on portfolios, resumes, and other job hunting assets. Case studies of speculative redesigns produced only for for a portfolio should be posted to this thread. Only designs created on the job by working UX designers can be posted for feedback in the main sub.

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Context:

I’m 4 years into my career as a UX designer, and I’m hoping to level up to senior in the next 6 months either through a promotion or by getting a new job.

Looking for feedback on:

Does the research I provide demonstrate enough depth and my design thinking as well as it should?

NOT looking for feedback on:

Aesthetic choices like colors or font choices.

Example 2

Context:

I’ve been trying to take more of a leadership role in my projects over the past year, so I’m hoping that my projects reflect that.

Looking for feedback on:

This case study is about how I worked with a new engineering team to build a CRM from scratch. What are your takeaways about the role that I played in this project?

NOT looking for feedback on:

Any of the pages outside of my case studies.

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Giving feedback: Be sure to give feedback based on best practices, your own experience in the job market, and/or actual research. Provide the reasoning behind your comments as well. Opinions are fine, but experience and research-backed advice are what we should all be aiming for.

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This thread is posted each Monday at midnight PST. Previous Portfolio, Resume, and Case Study Feedback threads can be found here.

I'm currently using Figma to showcase my portfolio but I decided to move to Webflow and want some inspirations.

I'm finding some portfolios online but the pool is huge and it would take me forever to find some good ones.

I would appreciate if you refer me to amazing portfolios with great case studies that you find inspiring! :)

I've been working as a UX designer for about a year and I feel like a lot of my real-world projects are not able to be laid out as a case study because I work at an agency and the projects are so fast paced so there's often no time for many of the case study steps. I feel like a case study is for a project that exists in a perfect scenario, which I'm learning isn't super common. What are your experiences and thoughts?

Thanks!

Edit: Thank you all again! I was overthinking this for sure. But I feel like we’re always told to have case studies. I think it’s helpful to contextualize portfolio presentation.

Anyone have any good case study examples?

I'm looking to redo my portfolio and want to find some inspiration. The biggest thing I've struggled with is finding a good layout (example: starting with the problem statement, my role, followed by...)

Hey guys, I've got years of experience, but somehow flew through without having to have case studies in my portfolio. Now things are hard, I was laid off and competition is high. I'm looking at putting together some case studies but, all the examples I see seem to be longer than the bible. Is this necessary?

Also, how do you go about describing small feature work that you've done rather than a whole product design?

A few days ago, this discussion mentioned some great examples of folio case studies:

https://www.reddit.com/r/UXDesign/s/8vBoCBFj3G

Folks pasted some great links to very thorough case studies.

Which brings me to this: some case studies seem very extensive. A designer’s target market (hiring managers/other decision influencers) will spend 1 minute maximum in your case study. Therefore, is it worth having long case studies (especially with many words rather than images) in a portfolio?

Imo, having a high level case study with your contribution and a solid process and decision making seems optimal. Then one can have a deck with more extensive info if needed.

What are your thoughts?

Please use this thread to give and receive resume and portfolio feedback.

Posting a resume: If you'd like your resume to remain anonymous, be sure to remove personal information like your name, phone number, email address, external links, and the names of employers and institutions you've attended. Google Drive, Dropbox, Box, etc. links may unintentionally reveal your personal information, so we suggest posting your resume sites/accounts with no ties to you, like Imgur.

Posting a portfolio: This is not a portfolio showcase or job hunting thread. Top-level comments that do not include specific requests for feedback may be removed. When asking for feedback, please be as detailed as possible by 1) providing context, 2) being specific about what you want feedback on, and 3) stating what kind of feedback you are NOT looking for:

Example 1

Context:

I’m 4 years into my career as a UX designer, and I’m hoping to level up to senior in the next 6 months either through a promotion or by getting a new job.

Looking for feedback on:

Does the research I provide demonstrate enough depth and my design thinking as well as it should?

NOT looking for feedback on:

Aesthetic choices like colors or font choices.

Example 2

Context:

I’ve been trying to take more of a leadership role in my projects over the past year, so I’m hoping that my projects reflect that.

Looking for feedback on:

This case study is about how I worked with a new engineering team to build a CRM from scratch. What are your takeaways about the role that I played in this project?

NOT looking for feedback on:

Any of the pages outside of my case studies.

Giving feedback: Be sure to give feedback based on best practices, your own experience in the job market, and/or actual research. Provide the reasoning behind your comments as well. Opinions are fine, but experience and research-backed advice are what we should all be aiming for.

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This thread is posted each Monday at midnight PST. Previous Portfolio, Resume, and Case Study Feedback threads can be found here.

Hi guys,

I’m searching for a job currently. I’ve built 2 case studies with what I’ve done when I created 2 products of mine.

Do you think my Case Studies would stand out for a Job ?

Link : https://prattdelzenne.com

Hi, I started studying UX/UI by myself about 2 months and a half ago. I'm finishing my first case study for my portfolio I created this food delivery app from zero. Created the information architecture, user flow, competitive audits, value propositions, UXR plan, and conducted a moderated usability study with the lo-fi prototypes, with SUS, NPS, and questions I created spreadsheets, then affinity diagrams, which became themes and then insights which I put into a presentation. It helped tons to follow these steps to actually understand my users. I hope that it was reflected in the mockups and hi-fi prototypes that I'm finishing to create right now.

When is it enough frames for a hi-fi prototype? Is it essential to do all the small details like adding specific frames for each type of food? Or for example for the different payment methods?

I tried to put myself into a mindset of "I'm doing this for a real client and real users" but honestly I feel like it's already taking too long.

If you would like to help me a little more I could send you gifs of my prototypes and you could tell me if it feels and looks good, I could also send you some of the research material that I managed to gather.

DISCLAIMER: NO JOB HUNTING; NO requests for feedback.

A discussion point that I've noticed come up often on this sub is related to UX portfolios. I don't think there's a specific platform for UX and what you see on Behance/Dribble is usually focused on UI or on hypothetical cases that only work in a vacuum.

SO, I want to ask those of you who have some good/great/outstanding UX portfolios or case studies to share them here and serve an example to others. It can be yours or one that you've just found on the Internets.

Thank you

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I'm a PM myself and don't have one, although I've worked on some great solutions that I feel sorry for not documenting.

Hey guys, I got feedback on my online portfolio that I need small section summarizing the problem, research, and solution before moving into screens and mock-ups almost immediately.

This guy claims that hiring managers and recruiters do not care about the research and would just like to scan through portfolios quickly.

I am hearing mixed reactions on this topic from many people. Can someone in a hiring position clarify this? I may rework my entire portfolio this weekend and need insight thanks.

Hey guys, I'm a UI designer and last Friday a company wrote for ux/ui position and who saw my UI portfolio, but would like to see the process. I want to write a process for my designs but I'm feeling overwhelmed and don't know where to start. Do you have suggestions for me or show me an example of what you did so I can see what's expected from me?

I was recently laid off and need to add some new case studies. This was my first job in UX and when I look at my case studies I did from grad school they look great. I showcase my process, research, persona's, journey maps, site maps, wire frames, and prototypes.

It's really difficult to know how to create a case study for anything I did at this company because they wouldn't allow research. I would ask to do a small group study and I was told it was a waste of time. Everything I needed to know was already known by my head of product and product manager. But both also hated answering any questions. I was given a list of requirements and was told to begin work on a design. Half way through the design process the requirements would change and I was told development was already working on the design I hadn't finished and we couldn't stop and rethink anything. The process was the opposite of how I wanted to work and how it should have been done.

My question is how can I make a case study with projects that were ran so poorly? Do I lie and show how I wished it was done? I think it would look bad on me if every case study said this is how it was done, this is how I wanted to do it. Here are all the arguments I lost and was out voted on. Here's what they forced through and this is what I designed that ended up not getting used.

The only thing I can think of is to lie about the process and just show parts of the project that I think genuinely improved the process and not discuss anything else.

This is going into venting territory. You dont need to read this to answer the main question:

I don't want to appear negative but I was literally screamed at for showing designs to our CEO when he said he hated the design my PO pushed. I had originally designed something intuitive and simple but I was told by my PO to add so many features that it was confusing to the user. Our CEO and Head of Product both said they would prefer something exactly like my original design and when I attempted to show that design I was belittled and demoralized. We were given one year to design an insurance module and from start to finish it was insane. The insurance expert they hired was a fraud, we lost time unlearning what they'd told us. We started to make progress and they switched our PO and we had to wait for the new PO to catch up. Then that PO left. We had to finish the insurance module without a PO. And there were times where I delayed the process because I felt we were going in a direction that could cause major lawsuits for illegal practices. I turned out to be right but I was still blamed for the delay. In the end we weren't given enough time, and we lost half of it due to constant interference from the top, but our team was called out for failing to deliver. It's really hard to make a case study for projects I did for this company.

I'm having a problem with finding a decent UX case studies. The truth is most of the examples I've found so far look like something done by people who are trying to get into UX / UI field (and there's nothing bad with that! But it's not what I'm looking for). Those are either redesigns or product concepts, there are many projects that were done as a part of UX / Product Design course / studies. It's either a product that doesn't exist or a project where there's no client / real business involved.

On top of that, those types of case studies tend to over explain every step - it's great you've done user interviews but I don't need 2 pages with explanation on what IDIs are! I want to see UX case study for UX specialists. It feels like a sci-fi movie where someone uses pen to explain complex physics ideas to a bunch of PhDs who are well aware how it works.

So - where do you look for real-life UX case studies? Is there anything you'd recommend?

Had the chance to hang out with an old friend who used to work at Google as a UX recruiter. They offered up two really good tips for making sure your online portfolio is easy to build and easy to understand.

First, start filling out an outline for a case study as a project starts. You may end up ditching it depending on how the project goes, but the sooner you start capturing essential info, the easier it will be to write out your case study later. Keep track of data points, reasons why the project started in the first place, etc. Start putting some of that on your Figma files for reference too. It's better to have more things to sift through than less as you're completing project breakdowns.

Second, make sure you show the final state of a project at the TOP of your case study so that you can wow recruiters and hiring managers right off the bat. That means super nice screenshots or gifs of key screens right near some bullet points that explain your role in the project, how long it took, what kind of team you worked with, etc. Hiring managers do NOT want to have to scroll to get to the good stuff. This is especially crucial if you've just completed a UX boot camp because everyone's case studies from those look identical unless you take the time to reformat them.

Hopefully these are as meaningful tips to you as they were/are to me!

TLDR; I want to produce a portfolio that looks more into the minutiae of designing a single ongoing product, with multiple case stuides on different parts of the same product, rather than showing multiple different individual projects. I feel this best representes the work I have been doing, and want to do, as an internal designer.

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I have been doing UX at my company for approaching 10 years but I have never actually made a portfolio - I spoke a big game at the interview, and did most of the learning on the job. Generally I see a lot of 'amazing portfolios' that produce wonderful designs of a product start-to-end, but they simply do not match my job or what it involves.

I work at a company that builds and maintains a single product. There is never going to be a start-to-end redesign on this, instead there is going to be a lot of small, incremental pieces.I have the current need/desire to get a portfolio up and running, but the issue is that I mostly can only talk about desinging within the single product that i provide design support for.

I am not looking to build a porfolio in order to get freelance work or apply for agencies - I like the ownership I have from working internally, and any job I would take would be doing a similar thing. I also don't have the time or energy to do design work outside of my job anymore.

That means that I can generally only provide case studies of more limited-scope work. No application-wide redesigns, no start-to finish, complete case studies. I work on a product today, and I'll be working on it tomorrow.

Is it frowned upon to go in-depth about multiple different aspects of the same product rather than focusing on more than one product? Its generally going to be less flashy than a lot of portfolios but there's lots to talk about and design challenges to solve and show off.

In addition, is it accepted to have case studies that are less around producing a visible design and more around demonstrating how you implemented a new/improved working practices. I see these as blog posts a lot of the time but not generally as pieces in portfolios?

Hey! So I’m trying to work on my UX case studies for my portfolio, but I’ve noticed that long, detailed ones don’t really get much attention anymore. People often scroll past or appear uninterested. Is there a better way to start a case study that grabs people right away?

I’m also kinda stuck on how much process to show without making it feel like a textbook. Is short and visual the way to go now? Are there any websites or portfolios that show good examples of what actually works in 2025?

And if you’ve hired or reviewed portfolios recently—what makes you stop and actually read a case study? Would love to hear your thoughts or see anything you recommend. Thanks!

Hi all,
I am looking to slowly refresh and update my portfolio but I dont want to waste too much time doing stuff that might not benefit in any way.
What changes have you guys made that you think had the biggest impact on landing more interviews?

Little background of me: 4 YoE, 2 companies, 1 free lance, 1 full time (current) tech company.
Looking for new opportunities but not getting any interviews, so I want to brush up my portfolio more.

Hi I'm a junior UX designer who is just finished Google certificate and preparing her cv I wondering if the case study that attached in the course is really affective to use? I mean if I used it in my portfolio, I get hired? And any advice to get hired as a remote ux designer or freelance?