Hello!

 
 

I'm Eileen Ellis, a user experience researcher, design strategist, and futurist with 10 years of experience in various fields within design. My special skills include the ability to connect with and understand people, guide thinking processes and manage workflows, and identify links between seemingly unrelated subjects. 

I’m also an outdoors-enthusiast and avid world traveler, taking every opportunity to engage new landscapes, cultures, and people. At heart, I am a true believer that inspiration can live through people.

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Observe

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Discover

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Solve

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Improve

 
 

Core Competencies

 

UX/Design Research Planning and Execution

  • Overall research process design, roadmap creation, budget planning, and leadership. Includes exploratory, generative, validation, and evaluative research.

  • Individual research project execution including research planning, asset creation, team training, recruiter management, legal document creation, research execution, and insights synthesis and communication.

  • Collaboration with internal teams including engineering, design, customer success, launch, business strategy, sales, marketing, product, and the client.

  • Experience with managing design research work both locally and internationally.

Strategic Design

  • Project management and group leadership of multidisciplinary team members with diverse backgrounds such as business strategy, engineering, product, customer success, launch, marketing, design, as well as client teams.

  • Guide 0 to 1 projects including research, core problem/opportunity identification, new business ideation, project roadmapping, and go to market plans.

  • Existing venture evaluation, including hypothesis testing, competitive intelligence and benchmarking.

  • Research-driven project scoping and prioritization exercises for engineering, design, and product teams.

  • Design and production of multidisciplinary innovation workshops, covering materials, team training, case study write-ups, analysis, and design brief creation.

  • Creation of commonly used strategic design frameworks including personas, stakeholder maps, service blueprints, user journeys (both visual and written for engineering teams).

Foresight Strategy and Scenario Planning

  • Current, emerging, and counter trend identification and mapping.

  • Work with past timelines to facilitate thinking into the short, medium, and long-term future.

  • Use methods such as Theories of Change and Stability (TOCS), Three Horizons, Influence/Systems Mapping, S-Curve Scanning, impact mapping using futures wheels, Hero’s Journey and Archetypes.

  • Future visioning including scenario creation using methods such as storytelling and quantitative estimates.