Ellen Rose

Ellen Rose

About

I’m a Senior Experience Designer with eight years of experience across digital products, services, systems, and transformation work, built on nearly a decade in set design, exhibition design, and fine art. I have an MFA in Products of Design from the School of Visual Arts.

Since April 2026 I’ve been part of SYPartners’ in-house AI Incubator, where I design and build AI tools for clients.

My approach combines systems thinking, research, elevated visual craft, and high emotional intelligence. AI is integral in my design process, but I believe that the creative process remains a profoundly human practice. Here’s my point of view: 5 Design Principles for the AI Era

Outside of work I’m a visual artist and old-home renovator. My house and I were featured in an episode of HBO Max’s “Diary of an Old Home.”

I’ll always be a New Yorker at heart, but I now happily call Portland, OR home.

Design
Expertise

Experience Design

Designing end-to-end for Web, Mobile, and Experiential Hybrid Events: Prototyping, Testing, Building Design Systems in Figma

Service Design

Problem Framing, End-to-End Customer and Employee Journeys, Service Blueprints, Service Prototypes across Digital and Physical Environments

Design Research

Ethnographic and Participatory Methods, User Interviews, Leadership Interviews, Surveys, In-Situ Prototype Testing, Synthesis into Personas, Journey Maps, and Insights

AI Native

  • Designing frontier, people-centered AI-enablement solutions for clients
  • Accelerating design research, rapid concepting, and prototyping using Figma, Claude, and other generative AI tools
  • Vibe-Coding (Pushing my own PRs), and Partnering with Engineering/Dev
  • Actively defining when not to bring AI into the creative process

Visual Storytelling

Storyboarding, Presentation Design, Art Direction for Illustration, Video, and Motion Design, Editorial Print and Digital Assets, Meticulous Craft, High Taste Level

Consulting
Expertise
  • Executive-Level Presentation
  • Systems-Thinking
  • Client/Stakeholder Management
  • High Emotional Intelligence
  • Adaptable and Resilient
  • Comfort with High Levels of Ambiguity and Complexity
Education

MFA Products of Design

Graduate program in design leadership
School of Visual Arts, NYC
Winner of the Paula Rhodes Memorial Award for Academic Excellence

RISD

Continuing Education: Graphic Design

Lafayette College

BA with Honors in Spanish & Studio Art
Magna Cum Laude
Phi Beta Kappa Honors Society

Select Clients
  • Anthropologie
  • J. Crew
  • BlackRock
  • Mars Inc.
  • BNY Mellon
  • Merative
  • Cognizant
  • MoMA Design Store
  • CoreWeave
  • Olaplex
  • CVS Health
  • PayPal
  • EY
  • Starbucks
  • Freshfields
  • ThinkFoodGroup
  • General Catalyst
  • Upwork
  • Harry's Inc.
  • WBA (Walgreens)
  • IBM Research
  • X
Work