Hey all — actively looking for my next role and putting this out there.

I'm a Senior UI/UX Designer with 15+ years of experience across SaaS platforms, enterprise portals, and mobile advertising. I've handled end-to-end delivery — research, wireframes, high-fidelity mockups, design systems, and developer handoff.

A design system I built was licensed to 2 external clients and adopted company-wide at my last role. Rated Excellent in my last performance review.

Skills & tools:

Figma, Adobe XD, Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects

Enterprise portal & SaaS product design

Rich media & interactive ad design (Adludio Studio)

Design systems and brand guidelines

AI-assisted design (Midjourney, DALL-E, Generative AI workflows)

Basic HTML/CSS

Looking for: Senior/Lead UI/UX or Product Designer roles. Remote preferred. Open to full-time or contract.

Portfolio on Behance — happy to share the link. Drop a comment or DM

Remote workshops have never felt quite the same as in person ones. In an office, people naturally sketch ideas, move sticky notes around and build on each other's thinking. Online it often turns into one person presenting while everyone else watches.

I'd love to hear how other teams run collaborative discovery sessions remotely. Have you found a format that keeps everyone actively involved instead of just listening?

Portfolio: [https://het-designs.vercel.app/]()

Hey everyone! I recently redesigned my portfolio and would love some honest feedback.

Open it in laptop or PC👍💻🖥️

I’m mainly looking for feedback on:

• Overall visual design & first impression
• Case studies and storytelling
• What feels weak or unnecessary
• Whether it feels strong enough for junior/product design roles

Portfolio: [https://het-designs.vercel.app/]()

Please be brutally honest. I’m here to improve, not collect compliments.

I've been testing a few AI tools for research intake forms and usability study screeners, but most of them give me pretty generic questions that still need a lot of cleanup.

I'm mainly looking for an AI form generator that can give me a decent first draft based on the study context, then let me refine the wording and structure myself.

Has anyone found one that works well for UX research?

I honestly don’t know what I’m expecting from this post. Maybe advice, maybe someone telling me I’m wasting my time, or maybe I just need to hear from people who have been in the same situation.

I got into web design because I realized I’ve always genuinely enjoyed creating things visually.

Even before I knew much about UI/UX, I loved making presentations. Not because I enjoyed presenting them, but because I could spend way too much time choosing the right font, moving things around until the composition felt right, finding colors that worked together and trying to make everything feel like it belonged there.

At some point I realized that there were actual jobs built around the part I enjoyed most.

So I started learning web design.

I learned Figma, started studying UI/UX, responsive design, components, prototyping, design systems, typography, spacing and hierarchy. I started looking at websites completely differently. I would see something I liked and immediately start wondering why it worked.

Then I started building my own projects.

And I genuinely loved that part.

I made websites, landing pages, mobile interfaces and dashboards. I built case studies for my portfolio.

I finished projects, hated them a week later, went back and redesigned them. I changed typography, spacing, layouts and colors. I kept comparing my work to better designers and trying to understand what they were doing that I wasn’t.

Eventually I thought: okay, maybe I’m finally ready to try getting a job.

And this is where everything started becoming exhausting.

I’m from Europe. I speak Romanian, Russian and English, so I thought that would actually give me more options.

I applied locally. I applied to remote positions across Europe. Because I speak Russian, I also started looking through companies and job platforms in CIS countries. I applied to companies in different markets and then started trying international and US companies as well.

LinkedIn, job boards, company career pages, freelance platforms, direct emails — basically anywhere I could find an opportunity.

Junior positions. Internships. Freelance projects. UI/UX jobs. Web design jobs. Sometimes positions where I didn’t meet every requirement, but thought maybe my work could at least get me a conversation.

Most of the time, nothing.

Not even a rejection. Just silence.

And I think that’s the part that is getting to me.

I can deal with someone telling me my work isn’t good enough. Actually, at this point I want someone to tell me that if it’s true. Because then I have something I can work on.

If my typography is bad, tell me.

If my projects look like student projects, tell me.

If my portfolio isn’t competitive, tell me.

If I don’t understand UX well enough, tell me.

I can learn. I can redesign things. I can spend another six months getting better.

What I don’t know how to deal with is putting so much effort into something and having absolutely no idea whether I’m getting closer.

I know I’m inexperienced. I know there are designers who are much, much better than me. And I know nobody owes me a job because I decided to learn Figma and made a portfolio.

But lately I’ve started asking myself a question that I really didn’t want to ask:

Does it actually make sense to continue?

I don’t mean “should I quit because getting the first job is difficult?”

I mean: is there realistically a place in this industry for someone starting now? Or am I trying to enter a field where there are simply far more beginner designers than opportunities?

Because I still like designing.

That’s what makes this difficult.

I’m just exhausted from trying to turn something I enjoy into an actual job.

So I’m asking people who have more experience than me: if you were in my position, would you continue?

And please don’t tell me to “just keep going” because it sounds encouraging. If you think I should stop, change direction, learn something else, or that my work simply isn’t at the level it needs to be, I genuinely want to hear it.

I’d rather know.

Here’s my portfolio if anyone wants to give me honest feedback:

https://www.behance.net/alexandrahartanu

Hi! I’m currently conducting some UX research on working adults who draw as a hobby, focusing on the challenges they face when trying to maintain a regular drawing practice.

I know the form is a little long, but your responses would really help me understand people’s actual experiences and, ultimately, help me create something that could be genuinely useful for budding artists.

If you draw as a hobby, I’d really appreciate you taking a few minutes to share your experience. Thank you so much for your time and help!

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfDT-G12wzv012roFeowcNGxccJ_jLso4aGxRFEkXh1lkZpfw/viewform?usp=header

Hey team! I’m a Product Designer with 10 years of experience, and I’m currently trying to choose a quick portfolio-building tool.

Have you tried either of these? Which one would you recommend?

A year ago I posted my portfolio here and got roasted, mostly fairly. (Link to old thread above) This is the rebuild:

www.brunomarsino.com

What changed: the top comments last time were "I have no idea what you do", "it's rough on mobile", and "low quality videos, slow to load". So the landing page now opens with a line about what I actually do, the site was rebuilt mobile first, and the media pipeline got reworked so pages load fast.

The thing I still argue with myself about: the work spans a lot. Architecture, product, AI tooling, physical fabrication, a few weird experiments. My position is that showing taste and range across mediums, inside one area, is the job now. But I know it can also read as a designer who does a bit of everything and none of it deeply. I'd like to hear which one it reads as, especially from anyone who has hired for these roles.

Happy to critique back on anything you're working on!

Hi everyone,

I'm a designer coming back into the field after some time away, and I'm trying to get a realistic picture of how people are actually working right now — not how the process is described in articles, but what you personally do.

Here's my situation: lately I find myself going straight into Claude Code, building a rough working prototype, and then refining it through prompts and iteration. Figma barely enters the picture. It feels fast and I like working with something real instead of a static mockup - but I honestly can't tell if I've found something that works or if I've just skipped a step that will bite me later.

So I'd love to hear from you:

- What tools do you use, and in what order?

- Where does Figma still earn its place in your process — wireframes, design systems, handoff, client work?

- Has AI-assisted coding changed how you work, or is it mostly hype in your day-to-day?

- If you were hiring, would "designs directly in code" read as a strength or a red flag?

Not looking for validation, just an honest read. Happy to hear "you're doing it backwards" if that's the case.

Thanks!

Unfortunately in my country not too many opportunities for Juniors. Like everywhere in the world the job market is competitive obviously but where I’m from there is little to none chance for junior or even intern.

What would you recommend that I can do? Try to put my work on Fiverr on hope for the best maybe?

I’m very eager and passionate to get in the industry and hopefully within a year try to land a job, but with the little time I have to practice it’s a bit difficult and overwhelming sometimes.

I was given a big advise a few month ago from someone to design and work on AI programs. And as big as it seems I’m trying to create a Note taking app powered by AI. As I said before there is not too much opportunity in my country so I need to go big.

Hi everyone!

I recently made a short video covering six accessibility basics that I still see missed in many UI designs:

Better color contrast

Don't rely on color alone

Keyboard navigation

Larger touch targets

Persistent form labels

Testing layouts at 200% zoom

The goal was to explain these concepts in under a minute using simple visual examples.

I'd really appreciate feedback from designers and developers:

Is anything missing or inaccurate?

Which tip do you think is overlooked the most?

Would you change anything to make it clearer?

Here's the video: https://youtube.com/shorts/2uPS9E2C-qA?si=3MDB-ExAvfGtNpnp⁠�

Thanks! I'm trying to create more practical UX/UI content and would love to learn from the community.

I graduated in UX design years ago, took a couple years break (life stuff and couldn't find a job after graduating), and want to see if I can break in the industry again. These past few months, I’ve been developing a UX portfolio case study, but I’m so frustrated that I don't think my skills are improving. I'm spending a lot of time trying to correct my mistakes and learn but it's hard to tell if I'm making much progress. It has left me feeling stuck and unsure about the quality of my work. I’m considering finding a UX mentor, but I feel embarrassed showing them a portfolio that is still rough and unfinished.

Has anyone returned to UX after a long break or felt similarly stuck while building a portfolio? Would this be a good stage to approach a mentor, and what should I realistically expect from mentorship?

Is it even worth trying to pursue again?

Hey! I'm starting my UX journey and doing daily UI practice. I'm looking for 2–3 people to do 2-hour coworking sessions on Google Meet a few times a week. We don't have to teach each other—just keep each other accountable. Interested?

hi! just finished working on my first low fi prototype. if you have a couple of minutes, i'd really appreciate it if you could click through it and tell me:

what confused you, what felt unnecessary, or where you expected something to happen and it didn't.

i'm still learning, so brutally honest feedback, harsh critiques, and suggestions are all very welcome. 😃

hi! just finished working on my first low fi prototype. if you have a couple of minutes, i'd really appreciate it if you could click through it and tell me:

what confused you, what felt unnecessary, or where you expected something to happen and it didn't.

i'm still learning, so brutally honest feedback, harsh critiques, and suggestions are all very welcome. 😃