How do you write a case study for work you did in a team?
State the team's scope, then your contribution, in that order and in plain terms. Reviewers expect senior work to be collaborative: vagueness reads as overclaiming, and "we" throughout leaves them unable to assess you at all.
Be explicit about the split
Name the team size and roles in one sentence, then say what you owned. "A team of six; I led the research and owned the checkout flow" tells a reviewer more than a paragraph of careful hedging.
Credit others plainly. It costs nothing and its absence is conspicuous: nobody believes one designer did all of it.
Use "I" for your decisions, "we" for the project
The project shipped; the team did that. The decisions you argued for are yours to describe in the first person, and they are what is being assessed.
If a decision was collective, say so and describe your argument within it. That is still evidence of how you think.
Employed designers have the same right to publish
Case studies are not only for freelancers. Work done in-house can be written up under the same rules: anonymise where required, describe decisions, avoid confidential figures.
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Last updated 2026-08-07.