UX Job Application Checklist
Before you click Apply on your next UX job, run through these 10 checks—from tailoring your resume and selecting the right case study to researching the company, preparing for interviews and setting a follow-up reminder.
Archive
Looking for something we wrote ages ago? This archive is your time machine—find posts by year, topic, or just wander through our history.
UX Careers – Episode 056.
The future isn’t AI versus designers. It’s designers who know how to use AI effectively while keeping their UX thinking, judgment and product sense at the center.
UX Careers – Episode 055
You can be great at Figma and still be a weak designer. Figma gives you execution, but product thinking gives you direction. Here’s what starts separating junior designers from senior designers.
UX Careers Episode 054
AI will change UX. But the bigger shift is what designers do next.
Junior designers: stop competing with AI
AI can produce faster. Junior designers don’t need to compete with it—they need to learn how to work with it. Build UX thinking, research, judgment, product thinking and AI fluency to turn AI output into better design decisions
AI can Make a UI in Seconds
AI can make the screen. Your value comes from knowing what to make, why to make it, who it’s for, what to question and what trade-offs to make. Here are the skills junior designers should invest in now
UX Careers — Episode 051
A handrail can be an interface. This example from Naples shows how Braille, accessibility and environmental design can help more people experience the same panoramic view—without an app, screen or button.
Educational Framework — Episode 036
Figma is important, but it’s not the whole UX job. The designers who stand out build skills beyond the tool: problem solving, research, questioning, design judgment, product thinking, communication and AI fluency.
Free Resource Wednesday
Before you send your UX portfolio to a recruiter, run this checklist. From your homepage and case studies to your design thinking, impact, role clarity and final UX checks—make sure your portfolio communicates more than just beautiful screens.
UX Careers – Episode 050
Your portfolio should do more than display polished UI. It should make your design thinking visible through decisions, alternatives, constraints, research, iterations, and outcomes.
UX Careers – Episode 049
The future of UX isn’t just about designing faster. It’s about asking better questions, challenging assumptions and understanding the problem before jumping to solutions.
UX Careers – Episode 046
Your portfolio shouldn’t just show what you designed. It should explain why you designed it, what you learned, what changed, and what impact you had. The strongest case studies make your design thinking impossible to miss.