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UI Designer resume example

A UI designer resume needs to prove visual craft and systems thinking at once — recruiters want to see the component libraries you built and the consistency they created across a product, not just pretty screens.

This example stays single-column and text-first so it survives ATS parsing, with a portfolio link carrying the visual proof.

Naomi Kessler

UI Designer

Chicago, IL naomi.kessler@email.com +1 (312) 555-0176 naomikessler.com linkedin.com/in/naomikessler

Summary

Senior UI Designer with 6+ years of experience crafting modern, accessible design systems and digital interfaces for B2B enterprise SaaS applications. Expert in typography, micro-interactions, responsive design, and tokenized design systems, reducing front-end development implementation time by 35% and eliminating 90% of visual design drift across complex multi-dashboard products.

Experience

Senior UI Designer
Vantage Robotics · Chicago, IL
Feb 2022 — Present
  • Rebuilt the enterprise design system into 120 tokenized components in Figma, cutting new screen build time by 35% across 4 product teams.
  • Standardized dark mode color tokens and responsive breakpoints across 6 dashboards, eliminating 90% of visual style drift over 12 months.
  • Organized weekly design-developer pairing sessions, reducing front-end handoff revision cycles from 3 rounds down to 1 round over 6 months.
UI Designer
Northstar Apps · Chicago, IL
Jul 2019 — Jan 2022
  • Designed the complete visual interface system for a 4-app mobile suite, unifying typography and component states across 500k active users.
  • Delivered pixel-perfect design specifications using Figma Dev Mode, reducing developer clarification tickets by 50% across 20 sprints.
  • Created an interactive motion-design library for micro-interactions, adopted as the default UX standard across 8 core product features over 9 months.

Skills

Figma · Design Systems · Design Tokens · Typography · Prototyping · Adobe Illustrator · Responsive Design · Motion Design · Accessibility (Contrast/States) · Developer Handoff

Education

School of the Art Institute of Chicago
B.F.A., Visual Communication Design
2015 — 2019

UI Designer · Bold Band template · single-column, ATS-safe.

ATS keywords for a UI Designer resume

Applicant tracking systems match your resume against the job description's vocabulary. Mirror the terms below that are true of you — ideally with a metric attached.

FigmaDesign SystemsComponent LibrariesDesign TokensVisual DesignTypographyPrototypingDeveloper HandoffResponsive DesignAccessibilityAdobe IllustratorMotion DesignStyle GuidesCross-platform Design

What recruiters look for

  • A design system or component library you built or scaled.
  • Evidence of tight developer handoff (specs, tokens, Figma dev mode).
  • Typography and visual hierarchy skill, shown through the portfolio.
  • Consistency across platforms — web, iOS, Android, dark mode.

Before & after: one bullet

Weak

Created UI designs for the company's web application.

Strong

Rebuilt the design system with 120+ tokenized components, cutting new-screen build time 35% and eliminating 90% of style drift bugs.

Common mistakes to avoid

  • Conflating UI work with UX research in every bullet — be precise about what you owned.
  • No mention of design tokens or handoff process, which slows engineering trust.
  • Overloaded resume graphics that break ATS parsing.
  • Skipping accessibility contrast and states (hover, disabled, error).