Resume Rx is the writing-side companion to Portfolio Rx. Where Portfolio Rx reviews what you’ve made, Resume Rx helps you write the resume in the first place — in the same direct, framework-named voice, held to the same rule: no roasting.
Who it’s for
Working designers at every level, junior through staff. The line between rubrics is the role you’re targeting, not your years in. A four-year designer going for a staff promotion runs on the senior rubric; a ten-year designer stepping back into a hands-on IC role runs on the junior one. It carries four role-family presets — product designer, UX researcher, design engineer, and design lead/manager — each with its own verb set and scope language. It’s resume-only. For portfolio and case-study review, that’s Portfolio Rx.
What it actually does
It routes to one of three modes based on what you bring.
- Line-edit — you have a draft (paste, PDF, LinkedIn, Notion, or a Google Doc). It returns your bullets side by side, original and rewrite, with a one-line rationale naming the failure mode and the framework applied. The three highest-leverage issues sit at the top.
- Brainstorm — blank page or a thin LinkedIn shell. It asks scope-and-impact questions — what changed because of you, what did you actually own, is there a number tied to it — and turns your answers into draft bullets.
- Draft-from-list — a raw dump of projects and wins becomes a four-section resume: summary, experience, skills, education.
A few things it refuses to do, on purpose: it won’t invent metrics, employers, dates, or titles — gaps get marked, not filled. No resume scores or ATS-readiness meters. No keyword stuffing. It writes for the hiring design manager; modern ATS follows.
Installing
In a Claude Code session:
/plugin marketplace add design-shaped/design-shaped
/plugin install resume-rx@design-shaped
Then paste your bullets and say “tighten this,” or say “I’m staring at a blank page.” Output is markdown — bring your own layout tooling. Nothing comes back to us, and the writeup is an approximation of our patterns, not us in the room.