​🎯 For UX & product designers | 🕒 60 minutes | 💵 Free

​Wondering why your portfolio isn’t getting interviews?

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

​Florian Boelter, Staff Product Designer at Juro and founder of Open Doors, will review submitted portfolios live and share honest, practical 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.

​Florian 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

​Florian Boelter is a Staff Product Designer at Juro and the founder of Open Doors, a community focused on helping early-career designers navigate hiring and portfolio development.

​Florian mentors designers, leads portfolio workshops, and helps candidates strengthen their approach to landing their first product roles.

​🤝 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

• ​This session will 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.

• ​The session will include a full recording.