United States

Graphic Design

UX Design

UI/ Visual Design

Product Design

UX writing

UX Testing

Content Strategy

Jason Cranford Teague

Creative Technologist

Portfolio

Online Classes

Usability Testing

Typography

Product strategy

Prototyping

Communication

Problem-solving

Critical-thinking

Customer service

Leadership

Accessibility

User research

Product roadmap

Optimal Workshop

UserTesting

Webflow

Adobe Illustrator

Adobe Photoshop

Adobe XD

Asana

Axure

Balsamiq

Figma

HTML

InVision

JavaScript

Miro

Adobe Creative Suite

Adobe After Effects

Mural

Empathy

Stakeholder management

Collaboration

Introduce yourself, define mentoring expectations and goals. Learn and grow together.

General mentorship

Making remote and globally distributed teams work for you and your needs.

Working remotely

Learn essential burnout prevention techniques and replenish physical and emotional energy.

Managing burnout

Talk to people who have learned to manage their imposter syndrome.

Dealing with imposter syndrome

Strategies for maximizing your design internship or co-op program.

Getting the most out of my internship

Tips for transitioning into a new role or company.

Changing roles

How to think about design career paths and what progression looks like for designers?

Design career path

How to create a positive workplace culture that drives collaboration and productivity?

Fostering a good team culture

Best practices for running productive design critiques.

Running effective design critiques

How to define and execute a successful launch and managing stakeholders expectations. (eg. MVP)

Launching new products or features

Methods of prototyping and solution validation. When to use which kind of prototype (eg. Webflow, Notion, etc)

Prototyping methods and tips

Manage team expectations and get the most out of your meetings.

Running effective meetings

Identify and define potential product problems and generating possible solutions.

Identifying problems vs solutions

Tips on how to work and collaborate with designers.

Working with designers

How to work with team members with different skill sets but towards a common goal?

Working cross-functionally

Methods and models of exploring, deciding and delivering design.

Building a design process

Managing being the only designer at your company and working with non-designers.

Being the only designer

Explore different generative and evaluative research techniques. User research synthesis and presentation.

Conducting good user research

Ways and resources to improve your design skills.

Improving design skills

Navigating the working relationship with PM's and engineers as a designer.

Working with product and engineering

How to create personas, and leverage them in design.

Creating and leveraging user personas

Ways to provide constructive feedback to team members.

Giving effective feedback

How to define an ambitious product vision and how to best communicate it to stakeholders?

Creating a product vision

Tips on how to work and collaborate with engineers and developers.

Working with engineers

What is a successful user onboarding flow and how to achieve it?

Onboarding new users

Best practices for documenting projects, epics, and stories

Writing product requirement documents

How to conduct interviews, what to ask, and how to analyze your results? (eg. user interview)

Conducting effective customer interviews

• Budgeted and planned over a dozen projects with sales and development ranging between $25K—$500K

• Conducted user research, usability evaluations, and design thinking workshops to inform user personas, journey maps, storyboards, wireframes, and high-fidelity prototypes

• Worked closely with design and development teams as bridge to ensure the best technical solution for users

• Utilized core web technologies (HTML, CSS, JavaScript) to create quick high-fidelity prototypes that allow accurate usability & accessibility testing, thorough experimentation, and rapid iteration

• Created and maintained design standards, guidelines, and reusable components

• Recruited and trained UX staff

•Trained sales, management, & development on UX design and accessibility

• Budgeted and planned over a dozen projects with sales and development ranging between $25K—$500K

• Conducted user research, usability evaluations, and design thinking workshops to inform user personas, journey maps, storyboards, wireframes, and high-fidelity prototypes

• Worked closely with design and development teams as bridge to ensure the best technical solution for users

• Utilized core web technologies (HTML, CSS, JavaScript) to create quick high-fidelity prototypes that allow accurate usability & accessibility testing, through experimentation, and rapid iteration

• Created and maintained design standards, guidelines, and reusable components
Recruited and trained UX staff

•Trained sales, management, & development on UX design and accessibility

Taught User Experience Design, Storytelling for UX, and Creative Concept classes.

• Collaborate with clients(including IEEE, US EPA, Marriott, ) to understand user needs and translate those into user needs and technical requirements

• Guide concept development by building high-fidelity prototypes to explore new features, content, and digital experiences

• Develop custom prototyping tools to help improve design, business processes, and product quality

• Developed consumer experiences and interfaces across a variety of web, mobile and emerging digital platforms.  
• Worked with Product and Engineering teams in agile environment to develop banking products. 

• Mentored and grew a team of UX professionals as head of C1 Creative Academy.

• UX research, strategy, design, and prototyping for USA TODAY's content management system, helping to roll it out to other Gannett properties around the world.

• Trained UX staff on current best practices.

• Directed a team of Information Architects, Interactive Designers, and Interface Engineers on a wide variety of client projects.

• Mentored team of UX professionals

• Provided design and creative direction for government and non-profit user interface designs, including The USDA, The EPA, The Half The Sky Foundation, and the Aspen Institute.

• Responsible for overseeing the visual design of marriott.com (a top 10 ecommerce web sites)  and related properties including 2009 Home page relaunch.

• Supervised and mentored team of UX professionals.

As a member of the AOL Global Programming Team, the Director of Web Design Standards promotes web application and content development tools, technologies, and best-practices techniques to visual designers, UI designers, Web technologists, web application developers, and web content authors developing solutions for AOL Programming.

I am responsible for the day to day creative operations for the AOL teen channel (RED) and will be working to bring RED to the Internet.

Worked with W3C to define CSS standards for CSS 3 and web typography.

Worked as a consultant to redesign various "channels" in the eCommerce division of the popular ISP and Web destination. Projects have included Automobile, Travel, and Careers. Responsibilities include site-mapping, story-boards, visual comps, and wire-frames.

Jason Cranford Teague🇺🇸