Ellen Faulkner

Ellen Faulkner (Creal) is a distinguished Senior Staff User Experience Designer at YouTube, with a comprehensive background in user experience and graphic design. Ellen’s career began with roles such as Assistant and Tech Dispatcher at ACD.net and progressed through internships at Yahoo! and Mercy Corps, where foundational skills in social media and web design were developed. Ellen's expertise was further honed as a User Experience Designer and Web Developer at The Whole Brain Group, LLC, and as a Senior User Experience Designer at Google. As co-founder and Chief Creative Officer at Vort Port International, Ellen established a visual language for a non-profit organization. Ellen holds a Master of Science in Information with a focus on Human-Computer Interaction from the University of Michigan, along with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Art & Design.