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ATS resume keywords for UX and Product Design

These are the 22 terms our scorer checks a UX and Product Design resume against. It is the same list the free check uses, published in full.

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The vocabulary

Coverage is 25 of the 100 points. Sixty percent of this list is full marks, so you do not need all of it, and stuffing every term in is penalised separately.

  • user experience
  • ux
  • ui design
  • wireframe
  • prototype
  • figma
  • user research
  • usability testing
  • information architecture
  • user flow
  • journey map
  • persona
  • design system
  • component library
  • accessibility
  • wcag
  • interaction design
  • visual design
  • responsive design
  • a b testing
  • heuristic evaluation
  • design tokens

The eight questions for UX and Product Design

The guided builder asks these, in this order, and turns each answer into a line on the page. Nothing is written that you did not type.

  1. 1.How many products or surfaces do you design for, and what is their reach?
  2. 2.What has measurably improved because of a design you shipped?
  3. 3.How much research do you run, and with how many participants?
  4. 4.How many components or patterns have you contributed to a design system?
  5. 5.Which tools do you design, prototype and test in?
  6. 6.How many engineers do you hand off to, and how?
  7. 7.How many end to end flows have you owned?
  8. 8.What accessibility standards do you design to?
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Words are the easy half

A resume can carry every term above and still be rejected, because coverage says what you know and nothing about what you delivered. The heaviest category on the rubric is evidence: how many of your bullets carry an actual figure.

Seven in ten is full marks. Most resumes we see manage two.

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