Build a Design Portfolio in the AI Era

I’m a design leader with 12+ years of experience, including roles at Apple, Bumble, and Badoo. I help designers see their portfolios through a hiring manager’s eyes and explain the decisions they made on projects where they used AI.

• Taught a design portfolio lesson on Maven that reached 6,000+ students.

• Helped 65+ professionals land job offers and relocate abroad in the past year.

• Spent 7 years interviewing designers and reviewing portfolios as a hiring manager.

• Led 500+ career consultations on portfolios and interview prep.

• Mentored designers worldwide for 5 years.

• Helped design products that have reached 100M+ users.

• Won first place in a competition against 450 other designers and moved to London in 2018.

Alex is a Staff Product Designer based in Sydney, Australia, currently at Propeller, building 3D mapping tools for the construction industry. Before relocating to Australia on a Global Talent Visa, Alex spent two years in London at Intercom, designing integration products. Prior to that, Alex spent four years at Alfa-Bank, one of the largest fintech enterprises, growing from Product Designer to Design Manager.

The career journey started somewhere unexpected: fashion design, before moving through graphic design and into product design. That cross-disciplinary background now informs a sharp eye for how designers present and tell their own story, which is exactly what this lesson is about.