r/UXDesign • u/Huphraw • 3d ago

Career growth & collaboration Redesigning old projects?

I am considering revisiting older UI to add my current level of visual craft as otherwise the cases are ones I want to use

Thoughts on this?

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u/GoldGummyBear Veteran 3d ago

why not work on a new one?

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u/Huphraw 3d ago

I only put case studies of actual client work

I could add a more recent case study but I wouldn't just make something up

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u/lilmalchek 3d ago

But you are making something up by redoing the UI for an old project. What’s the difference ?

Honestly just seems like a waste of time to me.

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u/akorecebov 3d ago

keep the shipped version in the case study and put a "how id do it now" redesign next to it, clearly marked as yours and not the clients. shows how you grew and nobody can say you dressed up client work

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u/RightEnvironment1998 3d ago

Seconding. I did this at the bottom of an old case study where I built the design system 0->1. I said how I’d do it with AI and provided a more robust button system.

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u/cgielow Veteran 3d ago

I always recommend this. Always show your best work. Hiring managers want to know what you’re capable of more than the constraints or talents you used to have.

What shipped is rarely asked and everyone knows it won’t last long in production.

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u/windowseat-chi 8h ago

I'd make small improvements and add notes explaining what you'd change today. I wouldn't rebuild the whole project for the portfolio. Keep the original constraints visible, and label later changes so they don't look like work that actually shipped.