​🎯 For UX & product designers | 🕒 45 minutes | 💵 Free

​Wondering why your portfolio isn’t getting interviews?

​Bring it to this live session and get honest feedback.

​Petar Vrandecic, Senior Product Designer @ Q Agency and Uxcel Mentor, will review submitted portfolios live and share honest feedback on what helps you stand out, and what gets your portfolio overlooked.

​If you want your portfolio reviewed, you can submit it ahead of time in the Uxcel Discord community discord.gg/uxcel. We’ll review as many as time allows during the session.

​Even if yours isn’t selected, the feedback shared will help you see portfolios through the same lens hiring managers use.

​🧠 What You’ll Learn

• ​What hiring managers and senior designers look for when evaluating portfolios

• ​Common mistakes that reduce a designer's chances of landing interviews

• ​How to present process, thinking, and impact more clearly

• ​How to evaluate a portfolio using the same criteria professionals apply

​🕒 Agenda

• ​Welcome and intro

• ​Live portfolio reviews: Submitted portfolios are reviewed in real time, with detailed feedback on storytelling, structure, and clarity.

• ​Q&A: Open discussion on portfolios, job searching, and product design careers.

​⚙️ Format

​Live review session.

​Petar will review portfolios submitted by participants and provide real-time feedback.

​The session is designed to be educational for everyone watching, even if your portfolio is not reviewed directly.

​We’ll review as many portfolios as time allows during the session. To increase your chances of being selected, you can submit your portfolio ahead of time in our Discord community: discord.gg/uxcel (go to #uxcel-chat).

​👤 Who Should Attend

​Experience level: Beginner → Intermediate

​If you're building your first UX portfolio, switching your career into UX and product design, job hunting and anyone who wants a clearer picture of how portfolios are evaluated.

​🎙️ Meet Your Speaker

​​Petar Vrandecic is a product designer with a strong background in UX, UI, and digital interaction design. At Q Agency, he shapes product vision and manages the full design process across more than 50 projects.

​​He also teaches UX design at Algebra Bernays University, bringing practical, real-world exercises into the classroom. Petar holds a Master’s degree in Digital Interaction Design and is passionate about creating accessible, inclusive digital products.

​🤝 Brought to You By

​​Uxcel is a learning platform used by 500,000+ product professionals and 200+ organizations to build cross-functional skills across UX design, product management, and AI. Learn through short, gamified courses that fit into a working day, earn certifications, and build a portfolio with real-world project briefs. Ranked Top 50 Educational Product worldwide by G2 in 2024 and 2025.

​Open Doors is the go-to community for early‑career designers. Get a curated board of junior‑friendly roles, weekly drops of handpicked jobs, and practical resources that help you stand out.

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​📌 Notes

• ​Session will be held in Uxcel's official Discord community: http://discord.gg/uxcel

• ​We'll review as many portfolios as possible during the live event, but we cannot guarantee that every submission will be reviewed.

• ​To increase your chances, submit your portfolio in Discord (#uxcel-chat) before the event.

• ​No recording available.