Ethan Ye

Ethan Ye — Design Lead at OpenAI. Talks and sessions delivered at UXDX.

Ethan Ye

Design Lead

Ethan Ye is a Design Lead at OpenAI. His work explores how AI changes the way products are imagined, designed and built, including what happens when more people can participate directly in creating product experiences.

Past talks

1 talk · 1 event

2026

Making and Building with AI: What Comes NextOct 2026

Talk

When Everyone Has a Designer: Designing AI Creativity at Scale

What happens when hundreds of millions of people suddenly have a designer in their pocket? Drawing from the experience of leading design for ChatGPT Images, this talk explores how AI is transforming visual creation from a specialized skill into an everyday creative act for everyone. It shares lessons from building creative AI for a global audience while also examining how the role of designers evolves when the tools themselves become creative partners. Takeaways: - How to design products with evolving AI capabilities - How to design AI products for a global audience - Design principles for creative AI tooling - How powerful creative tools such as ChatGPT Images change designers' daily workflows - How to position designers' skills when everyone can visualize their ideas

Ethan Ye