About

Ibrahim Ozen

Design Systems Lead · Product Designer

I’m a product designer who specializes in design systems for complex products. For the past six years I’ve designed connected products at Stellantis: first the owner app used by millions of drivers, and now the design systems behind the cockpit displays of fourteen car brands.

I lead the design system team for the instrument cluster (the driver’s display) and the head-up display. I built both systems from scratch, and I support every other cockpit design system team so we grow as one. I’m also my UX organization’s AI ambassador. I started in industrial design, which is why I design for real hardware and real constraints, not just for the screen. My work has earned an EB-1A “Extraordinary Ability” green card and more than 20 design awards.

ibrahimozen0@gmail.com

Ibrahim Ozen
Design systems · Product
Millions
of drivers use the owner app whose core experience I designed, for Jeep, Ram, Dodge, Chrysler, Alfa Romeo, Fiat and Maserati
10+
years of product design, from physical products to mobile apps and car interfaces
MFA
Integrated Design, College for Creative Studies
160
UX designers use the design systems I lead. With UX engineering, instantiation and software teams, that is close to 500 people.

What I bring to a team

Systems that hold

I built the design systems for the instrument cluster and the head-up display of a 14-brand car group, from scratch. They are adaptive, not just responsive: every size is calculated from the screen’s hardware, pixel density and viewing distance, and every brand keeps its own signature look. Today 160 UX designers work in the cockpit design systems, and close to 500 people when you add the UX engineering, instantiation and software teams.

Experiences that make sense

I design flows that people can follow without thinking: a clear structure, honest states and feedback at every step. I’ve done it on mobile, where layouts respond to the window, and in the car, where they adapt to the hardware. The EV pages are one example. Energy, charging, trips and schedules become decisions a driver can make at a glance, and every page is now final for production.

Rules people and AI can apply

I designed five AI skills in Figma and the workflow around them, so designers spend their time on design, not on operations. Eight design system designers use them every sprint. As my UX organization’s AI ambassador, I’ve shared it with the global UX team, and Figma reached out to learn from it: we now meet regularly to exchange feedback.

Leading and growing designers

I lead a team of three designers on the instrument cluster and head-up display systems, and I mentored each of them onto the architecture. When production defects traced back to an external handoff tool, I proposed an internal pipeline and guided the team through the move. I set the roadmap with leadership, support every other cockpit design system team, and keep brand teams, engineers and suppliers in five regions aligned.

How I think

Form follows system.

And the system follows the experience.

I start from the experience people need, then design the system that delivers it: the structure, the rules and the components that let a product grow without losing its shape. When those rules are clear enough for people and AI tools to apply, quality scales with the product instead of breaking apart.

The thinking, as experiments you can try →

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It answers only from a written profile of my work, in any language: the same idea as my Figma agents, where explicit rules and sources keep a model on track. If it can’t answer, it points you to me.

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Career

  1. Mar 2023 – nowDesign System Lead, Cluster & Head-Up DisplayStellantis · Auburn Hills, MI
  2. Nov 2020 – Mar 2023UX Designer, Connected Vehicle MobileStellantis · Auburn Hills, MI
  3. 2018 – 2020MFA, Integrated Design · Teaching Assistant (Jan 2019 – May 2020)College for Creative Studies, Detroit
  4. Dec 2016 – Aug 2018Product Designer · 30+ kitchen appliance programsEsalba Metal · Eskisehir, Turkey
  5. Dec 2015 – Dec 2016Product Designer · oven display interfacesCandy Group Hoover · Eskisehir, Turkey
  6. 2009 – 2014BA, Industrial DesignAnadolu University, Turkey

Recognition

IDA Design Awards, Bronze, Home Appliances (2019) · General Motors / College for Creative Studies Graduate Scholarship (2018) · IMMIB Industrial Design Awards, 2nd Place (2017) and 3rd Place, Household Appliances (2013) · iF Design Talent Awards, International Shortlist, Top 300 (2016) · WPO Student International Packaging Design Award, Worldwide Winner (2013) · Mosder Furniture Design Competition, 1st Place (2013) · 20+ awards and recognitions in total, listed in the résumé

Full résumé (PDF) ↓

A complex product, many teams, one experience to get right? Let’s talk.