Set 09 · Minimal · Resumes
Swiss Minimal, set on a grid.
For design, architecture and research roles, the resume is itself a piece of work — and the people reading it can tell in two seconds whether you understand hierarchy, spacing and restraint. This set is typographically disciplined and says almost nothing decoratively, which for these readers is the entire argument.
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Written forDesign & research roles
Sample OneSix years · Digital product
Every line is a decision and an outcome. No adjectives about craft — a product design lead will judge the craft from the portfolio, and the resume from the thinking.
Iman Shahid
Product Designer
Profile
Product designer with six years across fintech and marketplace apps. Redesigned an onboarding flow that lifted completion from 41% to 73%, and built the design system now used by fourteen engineers across three products.
Experience
Senior Product Designer, Easypaisa
2023 — Present
- Redesigned account onboarding; completion rose from 41% to 73% across 2.4M users
- Built and maintain the design system used by fourteen engineers on three products
- Run fortnightly usability sessions; 60+ participants tested in the last year
- Reduced the design-to-build handoff cycle from nine days to three
Product Designer, Bykea
2020 — 2023
- Owned the rider-side app through two major releases, 400,000 monthly active users
- Cut ride-request abandonment 18% by restructuring the map and confirmation screen
- Introduced the first accessibility audit; contrast failures fell from 46 to 4
Education
BDes — Communication Design
National College of Arts · 2019
Portfolio & Training
Portfolio
imanshahid.design · six case studies
Nielsen Norman UX Certificate
NN/g · 2024
Skills
FigmaDesign SystemsUsability TestingInteraction DesignPrototypingAccessibility (WCAG)User ResearchDesign Handoff
Why this one works
- The onboarding number is the whole resume. 41% to 73% across 2.4M users is a business outcome, not a design opinion, and it is what gets this person interviewed.
- Design system adoption is counted in engineers. "Used by fourteen engineers" proves it was adopted rather than merely built — the difference every design lead cares about.
- Research volume appears. Sixty participants in a year separates a designer who tests from one who asserts.
- Accessibility is a number, not a value. Contrast failures from 46 to 4. Saying you "care about accessibility" is what everyone writes.
Sample TwoNine years · Commercial interiors
Interiors sit between design and construction, so the page has to prove both the eye and the delivery — area, budget, programme, and whether it opened on time.
Zara Ahmad
Interior Designer — Commercial
Profile
Interior designer with nine years on hospitality and workplace projects. Delivered 340,000 sq ft across 22 completed schemes, all within 5% of budget, and led the fit-out of a 180-cover restaurant group across four cities.
Experience
Senior Interior Designer, Design Circle
2021 — Present
- Lead designer on hospitality fit-outs totalling 210,000 sq ft across 11 projects
- Delivered a four-city restaurant rollout, each site opening within two days of programme
- Hold all projects within 5% of approved budget through early value engineering
- Manage FF&E procurement and three contractor relationships per live project
Interior Designer, Studio Sixty
2017 — 2021
- Produced concept, detail and tender packages for workplace projects to 40,000 sq ft
- Cut specification errors by standardising the material and finishes library
Education
BDes — Interior Design
Indus Valley School of Art · 2016
Portfolio & Training
Portfolio
zaraahmad.studio · hospitality & workplace
Revit Architecture
Autodesk · 2022
Skills
Concept DevelopmentSpace PlanningFF&E SpecificationRevitAutoCADSketchUpTender DocumentationContractor CoordinationBudget Control
Why this one works
- Area and budget together. 340,000 sq ft within 5% of budget. Design practices lose money on overruns, so a designer who holds budget is a commercial asset, not just a creative one.
- Opening dates are the proof. "Within two days of programme" across four sites is the sentence a hospitality client will remember longest.
- Value engineering is named as the mechanism. It explains how budget was held, which makes it repeatable rather than fortunate.
- Tender documentation is listed. Unglamorous, and it is the skill that separates a designer who can be left with a project from one who cannot.
Sample ThreeFive years · Research & strategy
Research is judged on rigour and on whether anything changed as a result. Both are on the page, and the second matters more.
Omar Farooq
UX Researcher
Profile
UX researcher with five years across mixed methods. Ran 240+ moderated sessions and four large-scale surveys, and the rural usability study changed the default language setting for 1.1M users.
Experience
UX Researcher, Telenor Microfinance Bank
2022 — Present
- Ran 240+ moderated sessions and four surveys totalling 11,000 responses
- Led a rural usability study that changed the default language setting for 1.1M users
- Built the research repository; prior studies are now reused rather than repeated
- Trained twelve designers and product managers in basic moderation
Research Associate, Gallup Pakistan
2019 — 2022
- Designed and fielded quantitative studies with samples up to 4,000 respondents
- Coded and analysed qualitative interviews across six national research programmes
Education
MSc — Social Research Methods
Quaid-i-Azam University · 2019
BSc — Psychology
GC University Lahore · 2017
Work & Training
Selected work
omarfarooq.research · four public studies
Advanced Qualitative Methods
ICPSR · 2023
Skills
Moderated Usability TestingSurvey DesignQualitative CodingStatistical AnalysisField ResearchResearch OperationsStakeholder WorkshopsDovetail
Why this one works
- One study is tied to a shipped change. "Changed the default language setting for 1.1M users" is the answer to the question every research hire faces: does anyone act on it?
- Sample sizes are given. 240 sessions, 11,000 responses, 4,000-respondent studies. Rigour is claimed with numbers or not at all.
- The repository is an operations contribution. Making prior research reusable is a systems improvement, and it is what separates a senior researcher.
- Training others is included. Twelve designers moderating basic sessions multiplies the research function beyond one person.
Why designers should send plain resumes
It feels wrong. You design for a living, the resume is a design object, and leaving it plain seems like a missed opportunity. Three reasons it is not.
The portfolio already carries the aesthetic argument, and carries it better — full-size, in context, with the reasoning attached. Nothing a resume can do competes with that.
A heavily designed resume competes with itself. The reader is trying to find out whether you have shipped anything measurable, and every decorative element is friction between them and that answer.
And restraint is itself legible to this audience. A designer who can leave space, hold a grid and resist ornament is demonstrating judgement on the page. To a design director, a disciplined plain resume reads as confidence; an elaborate one frequently reads as compensation.
Design outcomes, not descriptions
The commonest failure in design resumes is describing what was made instead of what it did.
- Interfaces: completion rate, drop-off, task success, time on task, support tickets reduced.
- Systems: components shipped, teams adopting, handoff time, design debt removed.
- Research: sessions run, sample size, studies reused, decisions changed.
- Physical and spatial: area delivered, budget variance, programme adherence, sites opened.
- Brand and print: conversion, recall, production cost, rollout scale.
If a number genuinely does not exist — early-stage work, killed projects, confidential clients — use scale instead. Users affected, team size, project value, duration. Scale is always available and always better than an adjective.
The typographic rules of this set
For anyone rebuilding this by hand rather than downloading it, the discipline is small and specific.
- One typeface, two or three weights. Mixing families is the fastest way to look unsure.
- Three type sizes maximum in the body: name, section heading, text. Job titles differ by weight, not size.
- One accent colour, used for no more than two things — section rules and employer names, for instance.
- Left-aligned everything. Justified text creates rivers; centred text destroys the scan path.
- Consistent spacing above headings, larger than the space below them, so sections group visually.
- Generous margins. The instinct to fill the page is the instinct to be ignored.
None of this is decoration. It is what makes the page readable in the eleven seconds it will actually receive.
Let the portfolio carry it, and keep the page quiet.
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The people above are illustrative examples written for teaching purposes.
Names, employers, registration numbers and figures are invented and should not be copied
into a real application — use them as a shape to pour your own verified numbers into.