Hi, I’m Teague, a passionate experience designer, advocate for audiences, and business thinker.
UX Design & Leadership
I’ve been in tech and design since 2014.
As a Product & UX designer, I have led projects in product design (mobile and web apps), E-commerse, and traditional web design.
I love a lot of aspects of digital design, but have driving passions for both creating meaning through storytelling, as well as leveraging the efficiencies of design systems and frameworks to create great products consistently.
My Design Work
UX Overview & My Role
An overview of my position as Sr. UX Designer at Spot Insurance, an ‘Insuretech’ startup based in Austin, TX.
UX Overview & My Role
An overview of my position as Sr. UX Designer at Spot Insurance, an ‘Insuretech’ startup based in Austin, TX.
Pass Protection Claims
Launching a new product at Spot Insurance. Considering the customer facing and management aspects.
Data Management Platform
A tool used by Data Scientists for collecting, storing, and learning from big data.
(Protected) Connected Care iOS App
Microsoft’s Connected Care App is a summary of an individual’s health records organized into one place.
I’ve been very fortunate
in my career to have worked with companies like:
My Path Has Been a Little Non-Traditional.
My tech and design career grew originally out of videography work I was doing in university, telling stories and filming interviews for professors’ research projects.
In 2014 I returned to Seattle and took my first internship as a UX designer (I’m a Seattle native, and in those days tech jobs seemed to grow on trees in the Seattle area). I fell in love with the process of thinking from the users’ perspective, advocating for the user’s interest, and putting together apps that would function intuitively for them.
Since then I have worked for top agencies in Seattle and New York, and in late 2016 co-founded a private equity backed acquisition fund for digital businesses. From 2019 to 2021 I led a small team of designers as the Lead Designer at the White Fern Creative Agency.
For the past nearly two years I’ve worked as a Senior UX & Product Designer at Spot Insurance. Spot is a venture capital backed insurance tech (Insurtech) company that works with active lifestyle partners to sell and administer insurance in a more integrated way to how people live.
My career path has been a little non-traditional, but for the experiences and insights I’ve gained, I really wouldn’t have it any other way.
The Web Design Agency I Operate
I started the White Fern design agency in early 2019 to make marketing websites for new and existing companies.
We start with understating our client’s goals as a business, the goals of their customers when they interact with their brand – and then design to fulfill those goals in a clean and delightful way.
Process & Reflections
The design thinking process and frameworks like the double diamond are an essential part of a good designer’s toolkit.
I love to discuss process, how good design is firmly rooted in the balance of creative and critical thinking, and how effective design work can be structured and shaped.
A Few Design Principles
I’ve Learned (First Hand) To Live By
Technology is ultimately just a tool for people
Narratives are how people comprehend and understand
Change is constant, but root human motivations are stable
Good design aims to achieve stated goals the best, while also considering the resources available
It’s better to prototype cheaply, quickly, and often than to produce an expensive version of something that doesn’t work
For design it’s better to work a little each day on something than all at once. The fresh perspective that resets with rest ultimately helps quality a lot