Tucker Spofford

Designer
Seattle, Washington
tuckers@gmail.com
tuckerspofford.com
3605210911

Work Experience

Topaz Labs

Jan 2024 - Current
Director of Design

Leading product design across Mobile, Web and Desktop products.

Blue Origin

Aug 2022 - Dec 2023
Principal User Experience Designer

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

Valve

Jul 2019 - Nov 2021
Design

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

Artefact

Jun 2010 - Jun 2019
Design Director

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

Education

BS Industrial Design

WWU's industrial design program is legend for outputting some of the greatest designers in the Northwest. Possibly the world. I pretend to be one of them 😅

Skills

  • User experience design
  • Team building
  • Project management
  • User research
  • Prototyping
  • User testing
  • Design systems

Software expertise

Design
Figma Adobe suite
Prototyping
JavaScript React Arduino
Hardware
Fusion360 Keyshot