Great mobile work often looks worse than it is because it's presented as bare, floating screens. Presentation is part of the craft. Here's how to make your case studies read as senior.
Frame your screens
A raw screenshot looks like a bug report. The same screen inside a clean device mockup looks like a shipped product. Framing signals attention to detail before anyone reads a word.
Be ruthlessly consistent
- Use the same device frame and background style across a case study.
- Keep padding, shadow, and corner radius identical from shot to shot.
- Pick one or two background colors that match the product's brand and stick to them.
Show context, not just screens
Pair the final UI with a sentence of the problem and the decision you made. 'Users abandoned checkout at address entry, so we split it into two steps' tells a hiring manager how you think — which is what they're actually evaluating.
Sweat the presentation details
- Export at high resolution so screens stay crisp on retina displays.
- Align everything to a grid — misaligned mockups undercut the work.
- Lead each project with your single best frame; it's the thumbnail people judge.
You can frame a whole portfolio's worth of screens in minutes with a free mockup generator — same frame, same background, consistent output. The work is already good; make sure the presentation says so.