Your profile is the page other people see at uni.xyz/profile/your-username. You build it from the Profile area, and everything on it is optional apart from your name and username.
Open your profile editor
- Sign in, then open the user menu at the top right.
- Choose Profile. You land on the About page of your own profile editor.
- The left sidebar, under Manage, holds About, Projects, Journals, Publications, Collections, Competitions, Notifications and Messages.
Use View Public Profile on the card at the top whenever you want to see exactly what a visitor sees.
Name, username, location and bio
Click Edit Info on the card at the top. The form holds:
- First Name and Last Name, up to 50 characters each.
- Username, 3 to 30 characters, letters, numbers and underscores only in the edit-profile form (the sign-up form also allows dots and dashes). Your username is your public address, so changing it changes the link people have to your profile.
- Location, searched as you type.
- Bio, up to 500 characters. This is the single line under your name, not your life story.
Press Save Changes when you are done.
Photo and cover image
Both sit on the same card at the top of the editor. The round image is your photo, uploaded with Upload new photo. The wide banner behind it is your cover, uploaded with Upload Cover Image.
Keep both files under 5 MB and use JPG, PNG, WebP or GIF. SVG files are refused. The cover is displayed as a wide, short strip, so keep anything important away from the top and bottom edges.
Fill in the About page
Each of these is its own card, and each card has its own add action in the header.
- About, up to 2000 characters. Your background, what you work on, what you care about.
- Experience. Position title, type, organisation, dates, and an optional description.
- Education. Degree or course, major, institution, type, dates, and a CGPA if you want it shown.
- Achievement. Awards, certifications, licences, patents, leadership, social work, workshops.
- Skills, with a proficiency level. You can mark up to five of them as top skills.
- Languages Known, with a proficiency level.
- Links. Choose the site, paste the URL. This is where your portfolio, LinkedIn or Instagram belongs.
The checkbox people miss
Experience, Education, Achievement, Skills, Languages and Links each carry a Make it visible on my profile checkbox. Leave it unticked and the entry is saved to your account but never shown to anyone else.
If you added something and cannot find it on your public profile, that checkbox is the first thing to check.
What the Profile Score means
The Profile Statistics card shows a Profile Score out of 10 with a rank badge under it. The score is a percentile, not a checklist: it places you against everyone else on UNI, so it can move even on a week you changed nothing.
Under the ring you get one suggestion at a time, phrased as an action to improve your score. Working through those is the quickest way to move the number. Publishing a project or a publication counts for much more than any single list entry, so start there.
Base Score below the ring is the raw total you have built up. Only you can see it.
The verified badge
The tick beside your name is applied automatically. You have it if any of these is true:
- You hold an active Annual, Studio or Institutional membership.
- You are a juror on a competition hosted by UNI.
- You are UNI staff.
It is not the same as confirming your email address. Confirming your email is free and separate, and it does not put a tick on your profile. See Membership tiers and pricing.
What a visitor actually sees
Your public profile has tabs for Profile, Projects, Journals, Publications and Collections. A tab only appears once you have something in it, so a new profile shows a single page.
The Profile tab shows About, Experience, Education, Achievement and Skills, then previews of your projects, publications and journals, with your competition awards, jury experience, languages and links down the side. Empty sections are hidden rather than shown blank.
Four things not to do
- Do not put your portfolio address only in your bio. Add it under Links so it renders as a link.
- Do not upload a cover with text near the top or bottom. It is cropped to a strip.
- Do not assume a saved entry is public. Tick Make it visible on my profile.
- Do not pad the profile with empty entries to chase the score. Published work weighs far more.