Hi—I'm Rob

My practice bridges analog craft with digital precision — hand-drawn logos become UI systems, cinematic pacing guides user flows. Twenty-one years rooted in fine arts training at SVA, making things at JPMorgan Chase, Meta, IBM, and Ogilvy.

Chase's design system reinvention reversed years of declining satisfaction across 90 million users. Meta's CommLab brought creative quality to a 5,000-person org. IBM Watson's immersive prototypes turned abstract AI into executive "aha moments" — $6B in business through designed experiences. AI experience design, enterprise design systems, brand-meets-product. Always the hard problems. Always creating.

Making > Talking — prototypes over presentations. Demos over decks. I get overly excited and talk with my hands about typography, grids, flows, and iconography. Every project still starts with a pencil and a notebook.

Beyond the screen, I'm in my partner Stephanie's studio living a creative life, hunting for analog photo booths, or managing our cat Vincent's ongoing campaign of chaos.

Rob Harrigan in glasses and a striped scarf gazes upwards in two vertically arranged black-and-white portrait photos against a curtain backdrop.
Rob Harrigan wearing round glasses and a striped scarf poses in a two-panel photo booth strip against a vertical striped backdrop, displaying a playful expression in the top image and a cheerful smile in the bottom image.
Rob Harrigan in glasses and a striped scarf gazes upwards in two vertically arranged black-and-white portrait photos against a curtain backdrop.
Rob Harrigan wearing round glasses and a striped scarf poses in a two-panel photo booth strip against a vertical striped backdrop, displaying a playful expression in the top image and a cheerful smile in the bottom image.
Rob Harrigan in glasses and a striped scarf gazes upwards in two vertically arranged black-and-white portrait photos against a curtain backdrop.
Rob Harrigan wearing round glasses and a striped scarf poses in a two-panel photo booth strip against a vertical striped backdrop, displaying a playful expression in the top image and a cheerful smile in the bottom image.
Black and white photo booth strips showing Rob Harrigan with glasses and a polka dot scarf making a neutral expression in the first image and smiling in the second, against a curtain backdrop.
Rob Harrigan wearing glasses and a polka-dotted scarf poses humorously in a photo booth, making playful faces.
Black and white photo booth strips showing Rob Harrigan with glasses and a polka dot scarf making a neutral expression in the first image and smiling in the second, against a curtain backdrop.
Rob Harrigan wearing glasses and a polka-dotted scarf poses humorously in a photo booth, making playful faces.
Black and white photo booth strips showing Rob Harrigan with glasses and a polka dot scarf making a neutral expression in the first image and smiling in the second, against a curtain backdrop.
Rob Harrigan wearing glasses and a polka-dotted scarf poses humorously in a photo booth, making playful faces.

At a glance

Current Role

Design Director, Innovation & Craft — JPMorgan Chase

Design Focus

AI experience design, enterprise design systems, fintech product design

Previously

Meta · IBM Watson · Code & Theory · Ogilvy

Impact

Design systems serving 90M+ users; AI tools influencing $6B+ in decisions

Recognition

Webby Awards · German Design Awards · AIGA 2025 Juror

Education

School of Visual Arts,
BFA - Film & Animation

Experience

21 years across brand, product, and enterprise design

History

Design Director,
Innovation & Craft


JP Morgan Chase

05.2023 — Current

Product Creative Director

Meta / Facebook

10.2021 — 05.2023

Product Design Lead

Code & Theory (YML)

08.2020 — 10.2021

Design Principal,
Creative Director


IBM

03.2015 — 06.2020

Associate Creative Director

Ogilvy

02.2010 — 03.2015

Brand Art Director

Liquidnet Inc.

06.2007 — 02.2010

Freelance Designer

HarriganWorks / Self

06.2003 — 06.2007

Juries & Talks

2026
Juror • Graphex Awards
Art Directors Club | Tulsa

2025

Juror • AIGA Design Awards
AIGA

2023

Nassau Community College

College of Marketing
Garden City, New York

2023

School of Visual Arts

Undergrad Product Design
New York, New York

2022

School of Visual Arts

Masters of Product Design
New York, New York

2020

School of Visual Arts

Masters of Product Design
New York, New York

2021

Design Drives Podcast
Episode 43

2020

IXDA
Milan, Italy

2020

HOW Design Live
Remote

2020

USC
Los Angeles, California

2018
Creative Mornings Field Trip
New York, NY

2018
Austin Design Week
Austin, Texas

Making > Talking Playlist

Making > Talking
Playlist

What I’ve be recently jamming to while designing and prototyping — sorry in advance.

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Get in touch

Poke fun at my terrible music tastes, ask about my career path, or chat about juries, talks, and collaborations.

Poke fun at my terrible music tastes, ask about my career path, or chat about juries, talks, and collaborations.

Objects and glimpses from my grid

Colophon

Typography

Headlines

Set in Neue Machina.
Released by Pangram Pangram
Designed by Mat Desjardins & Valerio Monopoli

Text & Body

Set in Name Sans.
Released by Arrow Type
Designed by Stephen Nixon

Tech

Site is designed and built in Framer by Rob Harrigan

Custom code components and troubleshooting with Claude

A gradient background with soothing shades of blue blending into light beige, exemplifying a minimalist design aesthetic.

©

2026

Rob Harrigan, Rob Harrigan Design, HarriganWorks.
All Rights Reserved.

All client work © respective client. 


Making > talking.

A black circular button displays the text "ICE belongs in cocktails, not in the USA" in bold white letters. Rob Harrigan Design. Rob Harrigan.
A round pin with the "Love & Resist" slogan features the inclusive pride flag design, showcasing vibrant colors and incorporating varied stripes to represent LGBTQ+ diversity and unity. Rob Harrigan Design. Rob Harrigan.