This guide shows how to craft a UK-entry level interaction designer CV that highlights relevant experience and helps you stand out to hiring teams. You will find practical examples, section-by-section guidance, and tips for turning university work, placements, and side projects into strong CV items for the UK job market.
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Entry-level interaction designer CV: What this guide covers
This section explains what you should expect from a UK entry-level interaction designer CV and how to use this guide. You will get a practical checklist for each CV section, phrasing you can adapt, and quick rules for layout and length.
You’ll also find guidance on UK education routes and early-career experience such as placements, internships, and volunteering, plus tips for turning coursework and projects into credible UK CV items.
Entry-level interaction designer CV: Essential sections
Your CV should include a clear header, a short profile, relevant experience, education, skills, and a projects or portfolio section. Keep each section focused and remove anything that does not speak to design thinking, interaction patterns, research, or collaboration.
Where possible, relate your experiences to NHS digital, public sector, or commercial contexts common in the UK job market.
Header and contact details
Place your full name, UK location, professional title, phone number, email, and a portfolio or LinkedIn profile link at the top so a recruiter can contact you or view work quickly. If you have a personal site or GitHub with interactive prototypes, include the direct link and keep it concise and professional.
In the UK, you may also note your right-to-work status here if relevant.
CV summary or objective
Write a two- to three-line profile that states your current status (e.g. student, recent graduate, or early-career designer) and the value you bring to projects. Emphasise concrete UX skills you have used, such as usability testing, prototyping tools, and collaboration with product teams, rather than generic statements about being creative.
If applicable, mention your willingness to work in NHS or public sector environments and your availability for UK-based roles.
Work experience: Framing relevant experience
For entry-level applicants, prioritise internships, placements, part-time roles, volunteering, and freelance projects that demonstrate interaction design tasks. For each role, list the organisation, location, job title, and dates in DD/MM/YYYY format; followed by 3-5 bullet points describing the work and impact.
Where possible, quantify outcomes (e.g. improved task completion time by X%, increased usability scores by Y points). Highlight collaboration with designers, researchers, and product teams.
If you have limited professional experience, include academic projects that demonstrate user research, wireframing, prototyping and usability testing, and explain the outcomes in clear terms.
Additional Tips
- 1When describing projects, name the methods you used such as moderated usability tests, card sorting, or journey mapping and briefly state the impact to demonstrate your practical skills. This helps UK hiring teams see how you approach interaction problems.
- 2If you have limited UX experience, create a small but polished case study from a university project or a redesign of a public sector site and test it with at least three users to add evidence to your CV. Measured improvements or clear learnings make these projects credible.
- 3Use active, specific verbs like designed, prototyped, tested, and collaborated and avoid overstated adjectives that do not explain your contribution. Specific language helps reviewers quickly assess your capabilities.
- 4Before applying, tailor the top third of your CV to each role by moving the most relevant project or experience first and including two to three keywords from the job posting. Small adjustments increase the chance your CV matches screening criteria.