Portfolio can be instrumental in your career as a UX designer. Great UX portfolio by itself will not get you hired, but it will definitely open many doors and interview opportunities.
When I was a junior designer I’ve spent countless hours looking at portfolios of great UX designers. I admired their work, and sought inspiration. I was also looking for best examples of how to present my work, and UX case studies.
Below is a list of 28 UX portfolios for you inspiration and learning (updated in March 2020).
Portfolio examples
It is really difficult to pick and choose the best UX design portfolios, so the list below comes in no particular order. My main goal is to showcase variety of presentation styles, and present a range of portfolios for your inspiration.
I said it once, but I’d like to say it again, these are portfolios of established and prominent UX designers, so don’t be intimidated by the quality of work and presentation. This is a level that many designers aspire to achieve. Use these examples as a source of inspiration and as something you can look up to and learn from.
1. Liz Wells
Liz Wells is a senior user experience designer based in Brooklyn, New York. She worked with Google, Spotify, Twitter, Nike, Facebook and many others. A notable feature of her portfolio is a text only home page that resembles a resume. It is very clean and well laid out. It prominently lists some of the projects she’s worked on. One thing that I don’t particularly like is images that popup on hovers over the project names. They seem to be not necessary and detract from simple and powerful text-only design.
In contrast to the home page the case studies are full of large images and videos with some (but not much text). They present context for the projects and tell engaging stories.
2. Tobias van Schneider
Tobias served as art director & lead product designer at Spotify. Now co-founder of Semplice — a portfolio building platform for designers.
His home page is almost a complete opposite of Liz’s: loads of images, and large (sometimes too large for my taste), bold typeface.
Note that Tobias uses the main page to showcase his work, and the menu links to other elements including his personal projects. He doesn’t include much of the process and behind-the-scenes and chooses to focus on the strong visuals of the end product.
3. Bethany Heck
Bethany Heck is a multi-disciplinary designer who worked as Head of Design at Medium, Executive Design Director at Vox Media. She also worked at Microsoft and IBM.
Her home page looks somewhat quirky. It lists projects she’s been working on and links into neatly presented case studies for a number of high profile projects.
4. Simon Pan
Simon’s portfolio is referenced on nearly every single “UX Portfolios” list out there and for a good reason. His case studies include projects for Uber and Amazon, which are very well written and presented.
5. Michael Evensen
Michael used to work as the Lead Product Designer for SoundCloud’s Mobile team. What is notable about his portfolio is that it really consists of a single case study (presented right on the home page) and rather concise about me page. The case study itself is an in-depth look at SoundCloud’s iOS app redesign.
6. Ed Chao
Ed is a Human Interface Designer at Apple. His portfolio showcases work he has done for Dropbox as well as some personal projects. Ed’s portfolio has a very minimal design. In fact Ed doesn’t even include About Me page.
Note that his case studies for Dropbox are focused on an Interface and Interaction design. It should give you a good idea for how involving Interface and Interaction design can be.
7. Karolis Kosas
Karolis Kosas is a product designer at Stripe. His portfolio includes a number of very well presented case studies for a number of project (including as self-initiated ones).
8. Ales Nesetril
Ales Nesetril is a product and interaction designer from Prague, Czech Republic. One notable feature of Ales’s portfolio is a large collection of self-initiated projects.
