Design · $7 · 5 minutes
A designer's cover letter,
written with restraint.
Designers get judged on the letter the way they'd judge a portfolio: voice, restraint, taste, and one specific opinion.
Example output
Dear Northpoint Design,
I saw the Senior Designer role and noticed three things about your work that made me apply: you ship type-led layouts, you don't use illustrations as decoration, and your case studies admit when something didn't work. That's not a common combination.
For the last four years I've been the design lead at Loomly. I owned the rebrand last spring (lifted product conversion 23%), built out our system from scratch (Figma, tokens, docs), and grew the team from two to seven. What I'm proudest of isn't visible — it's that the team ships without me.
Portfolio: alex.design. Happy to walk through the rebrand at any time.
Best,
Alex Whitfield
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Common questions
- Will it feel template-y?
- No. The opener and the specifics come from your inputs — that's what kills the template feel.
- How long is it?
- 250-350 words. One screen. That's what recruiters actually read.