Years ago, I started cataloguing the UX portfolios that inspired me. Recently I updated this list because some designers took down their portfolios, links broke, and I found newer examples.

Updated: List of best UX Portfolios

This list is a little bit different than the usual "top UX portfolios" lists. Over half the portfolios featured are from career transitioners, many of whom have portfolios that really punch above their weight class. Another uniqie aspect of this list is that it's not just a bunch of hyperlinks - I explain what each portfolio is a good example of, and call out a notable case study.

If you're working on your UX portfolio or about to update it, browse this list for inspiration.

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🤷🏻‍♀️If you're a UXer scratching your head about content strategy... (or vice versa), read this
I remember dismissing content strategy when I was a UX designer. "Yeah, it's just content. Be smart about it, got it." As I became a UX - Content Strategist hybrid, I had to figure out the difference between the two. Turns out, the answer was hidden in an old diagram Jesse James Garrett made years ago.

• Read: The 5 Planes of Content Strategy
• Highlight: "Content strategy falls under the product as information umbrella of the elements of user experience."

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🔍UX at different resolutions
Jared Spool explores how "we can think of user experience design also as a series of resolutions." I love the practicality of zooming in and out of perspectives as a way to look at an object, experience, and maybe even ourselves differently. 

• Read: Zooming in and Out of UX Design Resolutions 
• Highlight: "Like the astronomers, we need to adjust and change our tools when we want to work at a different resolution."

🔥FYRE design: making something that turned into a scam
There's been a lot of recent media about business scams, from Elizabeth Holmes of Theranos to Anna Delvey's rampant fraud. FastCo got an interview with Oren Aks, a designer who helped the now-infamous Fyre festival launch a "brand identity was so successful that Fyre sold out all its tickets, including those for the grandiose villas that would never be built." A chilling reminder that we are not just designers. We are part of businesses that impact people's lives. 

• Read: Fyre Festival's Lead Designer Talks About Branding a Scam 
• Highlight: "Despite Aks’s insistence that it wasn’t his visuals that convinced people to buy tickets, the fact that the marketing campaign went viral suggests that Fyre’s brand and advertising did sway people, convincing them to spend hundreds or thousands of dollars on something that didn’t exist."

✅UX Checklist
It's sometimes easier to reference an example of a component than try to recreate it. Checklist Design is a new site that covers design components in detail, but breaks them down by their metadata instead of showing you a (potentially) distracting visual. Evernotin' this one.

Skylight.digital is an agency helping redesign government services (!) and hiring a remote UX designer who's able to travel to Hartford, Connecticut frequently for work.

Reforge teaches experienced professionals "growth" topics, e.g. how to grow a business, e.g. marketing funnels and remarketing. They need a remote Senior Content Designer who can translate complex ideas into compelling visuals. 

InsightSquared is a sales analytics SaaS product looking for a Senior UX Designer who can provide UX leadership and own multiple parts of the product. 

Action Verb is a 100% remote company hiring a UX developer who can implement designs into code. This hybrid role will focus on accessible design.