Tucker Spofford

Leading a team of talented product designers across Mobile, Web, Enterprise and Desktop products.

Led Design System creation and implementation across dozens of internal software applications.

• helping team to establish best practices and approaches for successful product design
• designing and building a fully functional design system that meets the needs of a complex aerospace production environment
• managing development and implementation of components in production

Led user experience design for Steam Deck, a new gaming handheld for PC gamers.

• architected the UX experience for SteamOS across Steam Deck and now Steam Desktop experiences
• created a design system for multi-modal interaction across Steam store / controller / PC and touch devices
• architected relationship between UX and hardware design including control design, hardware layout and communication (packaging, marketing, etc.)
• shipped functional react components and SASS mixins

Worked in a very hands on role as design director leading some of Artefact’s largest and most challenging projects.

• known as someone who can run and deliver any kind of project, UX, ID, strategy or research
• worked on all sorts of projects including: AR/VR/MR, medical products, consumer electronics, enterprise software, accessibility products, observational research, etc.
• created Artefact's bi-annual hackathon won numerous design awards including the Braun prize

WWU's industrial design program is legend for outputting some of the greatest designers in the Northwest. Possibly the world.