TWO COLUMN / THE AXIS TEMPLATE
A narrow right-hand column keeps supporting information close to the experience it complements. Axis gives the main narrative a stable left edge.
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Product designer making complex workflows feel simple. Experienced in research, accessible interfaces, and working closely with engineering teams.
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Product design · User research · Prototyping · Figma · Accessibility · Design systems
BFA, Communication Design · Pacific Northwest College of Art · 2021
THE DESIGN THINKING
Experience follows the natural top-to-bottom reading path, while skills and education are grouped on the right. The visual divider is subtle and does not replace text labels.
WHEN TO CHOOSE AXIS
Axis places concise supporting information to the right of the main work history. This is useful when the experience needs a continuous narrative and skills or education can remain compact. Test the balance with your own content rather than the short sample: a long qualification can make the supporting column feel crowded. Keep dates attached to the relevant job, then copy text from the exported file to inspect the order. Switch to a single-column version if the two reading paths become mixed.
Axis can support projects where you combined interaction design, content, or research. The main column should identify which contribution you made in each case. A short supporting list can show the methods and tools behind that work without requiring every project bullet to repeat the entire inventory.
If your strength is connecting teams, describe the decision or handoff you improved. Avoid presenting broad exposure as deep expertise in every field. The right-hand facts can establish useful breadth, while the main narrative explains the area where you took responsibility and made a substantive contribution.
A clear portfolio destination can complement the resume when it opens evidence that matches the application. Keep the project understandable without requiring the link. Axis should provide a coherent first reading, with the portfolio offering depth rather than supplying missing dates, ownership, or the basic purpose of the work.
A FICTIONAL WORKED EXAMPLE
In this fictional case, Amira works on an account setup flow and contributes both interface copy and interaction design. Her draft lists many tools but never explains how the disciplines connect. She uses Axis’s main column for a project decision and keeps the relevant methods concise on the right. The revised example shows how clearer wording and visible next steps addressed the same user problem.
Worked across UX, content, research, and design tools.
Revised account-setup labels and confirmation states after usability sessions exposed uncertainty about the next action, coordinating the changes with the interface designer and engineer.
The sentence makes the collaboration and problem visible. It does not claim that Amira alone performed every discipline or that the revision proved a universal user outcome. Axis works when this ownership is clear in the main narrative. The supporting facts can then name content design and usability research without being asked to explain the project or inflate the candidate into several unrelated specialists.
FROM SAMPLE TO YOUR RESUME
Name the kind of work that brings your disciplines together, such as product content or service design. Avoid a headline containing five separate occupations. The focus should explain why the selected experience belongs in one application, while leaving individual projects free to show different methods and collaborators.
For each important project, identify the user or business problem, your action, and the resulting decision or delivery state. Then select the supporting skills that genuinely appear in those examples. This sequence prevents the right-hand column from becoming the starting point for an unfocused inventory.
Check that the main history is understandable on its own and that supporting entries are short enough to scan. Inspect text selection or extraction after export, including the contact line. If the receiving system requires a single column, keep the edited content and choose a simpler layout for that application.
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THE FINAL EDIT
Multidisciplinary projects make ownership easy to blur. State which research, writing, design, or implementation you performed and which came from colleagues. A clear contribution can be substantial without suggesting that one person handled the complete process independently.
A narrow supporting column is a poor place for a long explanation of your professional direction. Put the connecting idea in the profile and demonstrate it through experience. Keep the right-hand area for concise facts that support that argument.
GOOD QUESTIONS
No. It can suit other multidisciplinary backgrounds when the main narrative explains a coherent contribution and the supporting facts remain concise. The important choice is how the two reading areas divide information, not the job title alone.
Prefer a clear destination that leads to relevant, accessible work. Several competing links can clutter the contact line. Make the strongest project easy to locate and keep its role description consistent with the resume.
That usually works against the layout’s purpose. Use the main experience narrative for context and decisions. The supporting column is better suited to short skill and education facts that a reader can consult without losing the main thread.
PUT THE IDEA TO WORK
Fictional practice case: Anika is an industrial designer who also helped prepare assembly instructions for a prototype at the fictional Kestrel Workshop. Her Axis draft lists design, manufacturing, and technical writing as equally developed specialties, although the project evidence supports a narrower combination.
Use the main left column to explain the assembly problem and Anika's design revision. That gives the reader a stable professional story before they encounter the supporting capabilities in the right-hand column.
Describe illustrating the revised assembly sequence for prototype reviewers. Keep the prototype context and avoid implying that Anika developed a complete production manual or controlled manufacturing quality across a commercial product line.
Use concise skill names that the project actually demonstrates. A long paragraph about each discipline would make the narrow column compete with the history instead of helping someone locate the relevant methods and tools.
Read the main column without the sidebar. The project and Anika's responsibility should still be understandable. Then read the sidebar alone and remove any specialty that sounds broader than the evidence beside it.
Explain project ownershipA USEFUL NEXT READ
Choose a portfolio destination, write clear project context, check access and confidentiality, and make sure the link supports the resume’s claims.
Read the guideLearn how to list projects on a resume with clear context, personal contributions and honest outcomes. Compare project examples and choose where they belong.
Read the guideCOMPARE THE TRADEOFFS
A considered second column
Room for a little personality
YOUR NEXT STEP
Take the writing ideas from this example into your next application. Choose a layout in CVura, prepare your resume and export the format you need.
