Be better prepared for your next design role

Practical resources, data insights and tools to help designers understand how they're evaluated and show stronger evidence of their value.

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What hiring teams
are telling us

Say portfolios strongly influence or are a main deciding factor in first-interview decisions.

Spend 3 minutes or less deciding whether to continue reviewing a portfolio.

“Clearly show the problem, your thought process and your decisions. Take me through the journey.”

- Design Manager

Say case studies and portfolios feel too generic.

Design hiring insights from 2026 survey

Audit your portfolio before you apply

Use the portfolio checklist to evaluate whether your portfolio clearly communicates your positioning, strongest evidence and relevance to the roles you're targeting.

The audience you’re designing
your portfolio for.

The skills and qualities hiring teams
look for in a candidate.

Hiring teams look for signals. Your work should give them the evidence.

Real examples that prove you have
the skills the role requires.

Go deeper with the career positioning intensive

A live, hands-on program to help designers position their work, choose stronger evidence, and make better portfolio decisions for the roles they want.

Justine is one of the best people I've worked with when it comes to portfolio reviews and helping me sharpen how I present my work. She can quickly spot what is unclear, what is missing, and what needs to be reframed to better match what a company is actually looking for.

This course made me pause and really understand the areas for improvement in my current portfolio. It helped me think strategically about where I want to take it and which roles and companies I'm aiming for. It made me reflect a lot and organize my redesign process, not just the visuals but also the content, so everything actually makes sense together.

Justine's framework (your experience, public info, confidential artifacts) showed me how to keep the story without the risk. Role decoding also changed how I audit my site: I cut my work page from 12 projects to a focused few and stopped telling the same story twice. Practical and immediately usable.

Why learn from me?

I'm Justine, a product designer with 10 years of experience at companies including Stripe and Preply.

Over the years, I've interviewed designers, completed interviewer training, and experienced the hiring process from both sides. It taught me that doing strong work isn't always enough, you also need to know how to communicate its value.

I created Storyline Design to help designers better understand how they're evaluated, position their experience for the roles they want, and be more prepared for the hiring process.

Portfolios are not a collection of projects.

They are evidence for the role you want next.