UX Designers
Lead user research, journey maps, and usability findings in a real sprint. Defend your decisions to teammates who are building from your files.
For Designers
Build a case study that proves cross-functional collaboration.
Most design portfolios show solo work. Yours will show a shipped product, built with developers, a Scrum Master, and a Product Owner you actually had to negotiate with.
UX, UI, or Product — if you’ve designed something, you’re ready.
UI Designers
Ship a design system a team will actually use. Components, tokens, handoff — the artifacts hiring managers open first.
Product Designers
Own the problem and the solution. Partner with the Product Owner on scope. Defend tradeoffs in sprint planning.
Design in a team — not next to one.
- User research in context. Real interviews. Real personas. Synthesized with a team that needs to act on what you find.
- Figma → pull request. Hand off designs to developers who will ask hard questions. Iterate when what you drew doesn’t work in code.
- A design system you’ll actually maintain. Tokens, components, naming, accessibility. Not a one-off deck.
- Sprint critique. Your work gets reviewed every sprint by people who aren’t designers. Learn to defend — and change your mind.
- Participate in retros. Agile ceremonies are for designers too. You’ll run them, join them, and shape how your team works.
- Cross-functional vocabulary. Story points, acceptance criteria, definition of done. The words hiring managers ask about in interviews.
A portfolio with one person’s name on it tells one story.
Hiring managers in design know what solo work looks like. What they’re actually screening for — and rarely see — is evidence you can ship in a cross-functional team. A Chingu case study shows: the constraints you worked under, the people you convinced, the things you compromised on, and the product that went live anyway.
“This was more than a practice project — it was a real-world learning experience and a chance to create something meaningful and useful.”
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