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After eight years of designer recruiting experience and providing UX/UI design services, Cieden’s team mastered all its kinks. This guide is a structured and polished outcome of our trials and errors along the way. You’ll find answers to the most practical questions on how to hire a UX/UI designer.

We rarely hear about designers as co-founders of products, but we have Melanie Perkins founding Canva or Brian Chesky with AirBnB that demonstrate their potential. We have many other products, like Summurai that are founded and ruled by UX designers. Let’s take a look at how a UX UI designer took the leap into the big league.

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Iryna Serednia interviewed three Cieden’s designers that gave their versatile and sincere feedback on their work on the product and cooperation with the internal product team. And the value they have brought to business in each case.

Before creating your portfolio website, you would certainly need to get some inspiration and see what others do. The web is replete with a myriad of portfolio websites, so the great question is how to stand out, show your talent and uniqueness. To save your time and give some reference points on what to pay attention to, we took a look at the 5 most creative UX/UI designers' portfolio websites made in 2024.