UX Designer resume skills. The words recruiters search for.
The 14 skills and tools that come up in UX designer job posts, sorted by type, and how to put them in bullets a recruiter believes.
By Nazir Elmurodov, Founder, LaunchCV · Updated
/ The list
Keywords by type. Use only the ones that are true for you.
Hard skills · 13
- User research (used in Sofia's sample resume)
- Usability testing (used in Sofia's sample resume)
- Interaction design (used in Sofia's sample resume)
- Wireframes
- Prototyping (used in Sofia's sample resume)
- Design systems (used in Sofia's sample resume)
- Information architecture (used in Sofia's sample resume)
- User flows
- Accessibility (used in Sofia's sample resume)
- WCAG (used in Sofia's sample resume)
- Journey mapping
- A/B testing
- UX writing (used in Sofia's sample resume)
Tools & software · 1
- Figma (used in Sofia's sample resume)
10 of 14 appear in Sofia's sample resume. See where
/ How to use them
Put keywords in bullets, not just in a skills list.
A skills list tells the software you have a skill. A bullet shows a recruiter what you did with it.
Figma
Weak: Skills: Figma
Strong: Built a Figma design system of 120 components used by 4 product teams
WCAG
Weak: Skills: WCAG
Strong: Partnered with engineering to ship accessible components meeting WCAG 2.1 AA
Conversion
Weak: Redesigned onboarding
Strong: Redesigned sign-up, raising completion from 54% to 78%
Research
Weak: Conducted user research
Strong: Ran 25 usability sessions that cut transfer support tickets by 31%
Strong bullets come from Sofia's sample resume and our UX designer bullet examples. Names and figures are illustrative.
/ Use them honestly
Keywords get you found. Proof gets you hired.
Mirror the job post's wording for skills you really have. If a UX designer post asks for User research and you've used it, say User research, in the post's spelling, and show where.
Mirror the job post's wording
If a UX designer post says "Usability testing", write "Usability testing", not a near-synonym — as long as it's accurate. Recruiters search for the post's exact term.
Only claim what you can back up
Expect to be asked about every term you list. If you couldn't spend two minutes on User research — what you did and what changed — leave it out.
Show it in a bullet
A skills list says you know Figma. A bullet like the one under Product Designer in the example above shows what you did with it.
No stuffing, no hidden text
Repeating a word or hiding keywords in white text doesn't make you a better match. A person reads the resume in the end.
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/ Questions
UX Designer keywords, answered.
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How many keywords should a UX designer resume have?
There's no magic number. Sofia's sample resume uses 10 of the 14 terms on this page — the ones that fit that job. Cover what your post asks for that you can back up, each where it fits; repeating a keyword doesn't help.
Should I copy keywords exactly from the job post?
Use the post's wording for skills you really have. If a UX designer post says "User research", write "User research" rather than a synonym, so a recruiter searching for that term finds you. Don't add skills you don't have just because the post lists them.
Where should keywords go on my resume?
In your summary, a short skills section and, above all, the bullets under each job, where you show what you did with the skill. In Sofia's sample, Interaction design is in the summary and Figma shows up in a bullet under Product Designer. Plain text in the body of the page is easiest for applicant tracking systems to read.
Which tools should I list on a UX designer resume?
The ones you've used and the post mentions. Common ones in UX designer posts include Figma. Name the tool in the bullet where you used it, not only in the skills list.
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