Profile

Elliott [b. 1989] is a graphic designer/educator specializing in product, motion, & interactive design projects.

His studio and research practice investigates the design of software and expressive tools that make people better at what they do - or reveal something totally new, often in real-time.

He holds an masters degree from Rhode Island School and based in the pacific northwest.

Elliott Romano
Photograph by Ben Denzer

Current Experience

Docker
Boston, MA
Product Designer

I collaborate with the Docker image management product team to help streamline the software development lifecycle by enabling developers to programmatically and securely manage their image instances.

Past Experience

RISD Museum
Providence, RI
Digital Designer

I collaborated with museum curatorial and digital initiatives staff to create a first version of an interactive digital museum guide as well as contributing to various forms of printed and interactive wayfinding and exhibition content.

Brown Political Review
Providence, RI
Designer

Collaborated with Art Directors, writers and illustration teams to produce a visual system to be applied to key sections of the Spring 24 editions of the printed publications of the Brown Political Review Journal.

DigitalOcean
New York, NY
Senior Product Designer II

I led product design and strategy for core business initiatives with a focus on new user acquisition and product onboarding. Partnered with data and analytics leads, as well as product and brand leadership, to design unique first-time user experiences tailored to a diverse developer and engineer audience with varying technical expertise. Collaborated with technical leads throughout the software development process to provide strategic design guidance. My work drove significant ROI and measurable financial growth.

Percolate Industries
New York, NY
Product Designer

I helped lead several feature development efforts, as well as rebranding efforts for Percolate Industries.

Education

MFA, Graphic Design
Rhode Island School of Design, 2025
Advanced Study
School of Visual Art, 2021
Cooper Union, 2020
BFA, Photography
Rhode Island School of Design, 2013

Teaching

Instructor - Pratt Institute + RISD
Intro to Digital Product Design
Web Design
Grad Teaching Assistant - RISD
Graphic Design Studio I
Studio Lighting
Typography II

Skills

Digital Product Design + Dev
Brand + Strategy
Design Research
Information/Data Visualization
Print/Layout Design
Web Design/Layout
Web Programming
Photography/Studio Lighting
Motion Design
LLM Prompting + Training

Software/Tooling Proficiency

Adobe Suite
Figma
Visual Studio Code
HTML/CSS/JavaScript
Cinema 4D
After Effects
Glyphs
Touch Designer