UXfolio Webinar: The 6 questions every UX portfolio must answer
What makes a UX portfolio read as junior, mid, or senior?
In this live webinar session, Joseph Louis Tan will break down the six questions hiring managers run through in the first 30 seconds of reviewing a portfolio, and show how the answers to those questions differ across levels of experience.
Your portfolio does more than present projects; it frames your decisions, your role, and your sense of what matters. Those signals shape whether your experience feels narrow or strategic, supported or overstated, junior or senior.
Join us to learn how Joseph reads those signals, how they shift from junior to senior level, and what your portfolio may be communicating today.
What we’ll cover
the six questions that shape a hiring manager’s first read of your portfolio
what those questions are picking up from your portfolio
how those signals influence whether your work reads as junior, mid-level, or senior
why strong-looking portfolios can still create doubt
how your portfolio compares to senior-level expectations
Want live feedback on your portfolio?
Submit your portfolio for a chance to be reviewed during the session.
Selected portfolios will be reviewed in real-time using Joseph’s diagnostic framework, with commentary on what signals are coming through, where the gaps are, and how the portfolio reads from junior to senior level.
🕒 Agenda
Welcome and introductions
The Hiring Signal framework
Live portfolio reviews
Q&A
🎙️ Meet the Speaker
Joseph Louis Tan is a career coach for experienced designers and the founder of Career Creators. He has 18 years in design across six career pivots; industrial design, lecturing, fintech, app design, and Head of Product Design at ContactOut, a sourcing platform used by over 4 million recruiters globally.
He is based in Singapore, holds the LinkedIn Top Voice badge since 2024, and has 39,000 followers on LinkedIn.
🧑💻 Who Should Attend?
→ UX designers and UX researchers
→ Product designers building their portfolio
→ Designers aiming to level up their presentation
→ Career switchers moving into UX
→ Anyone who wants a clearer understanding of what their portfolio is signaling
Hosted by UXfolio, featuring Joseph Louis Tan