Andrew Deegear

Product and UX design leader that ships exceptional experiences.I craft innovative products that delight users, build high-performing and healthy teams, and drive business success through deep behavioral understanding. Whether diving into hands-on work with fast-moving teams or aligning the product strategy with business executives, I’m here for it.

In a nutshell

  • Design Systems & Components

  • UX Engineering & Prototyping

  • Building & Transforming Teams

  • Product Strategy & Agile Delivery

  • Human-Centered Design

  • Native Mobile & Responsive Web

Building a Team

For almost 4 years I've been leading a team to reimagine a highly complex, billion dollar, Commercial Real Estate 0-1 SaaS at ClarityFirst.com

FinTech Flowin'

Designed applications with advisors, retail users, and devs for nearly 5 years.

A Fistful of Dollars

A 3 year dip into agency life as a freelancer.

Contact

Recommendations available on linkedin.

© Andrew Deegear 2025

Down with the System

I inherited a basic design system which I continuously evolved, based on usage and tech needs, creation of a Design Council and managing a component library.

Design Demo-lition

Set up and smoothed out the 'dog and pony show' for our design work.

It's Party Time

Getting the right people on an order is crucial to closing it on time—the number of potential parties involved here is mind-numbing.I kicked off the project and then guided one of my Senior Designers in how to structure this beast, including her setting boundaries with a PM who liked to skip research and a front-end engineer who played designer.

Trust the Process

Inspired by a book on owning your own processes (E-myth Revisited), I put pen to proverbial paper and forged our agreements among the team and with our partners.This clarified a large amount of uncertainty and let the team focus on what they do best—design.

Check, One-Two...

We all can remember the lengthy checklist when closing on a home—this is the big brother of that on the commercial side.It's interactive and digital, however, speeding up the process and allowing for much more variation and convenience.(More to come)

It's Important to Stay Mobile

Pushing the envelope for CRE on mobile.(More to come)

Schwab Transfer

DevOps: GitHub Blog Platform

Created for development-savvy bloggers desiring to internally socialize their team's work.I worked with Executive Greg Storey, of OG WordPress fame, to strategize and launch these.

DesignOps: Testing and Kanban

Pioneered in-house Design Validations for USAA Design, cutting turnaround time from 3 weeks to 4 days.Also, converted team to a continuous delivery kanban process instead of scrum to reduce time wasted pointing, carrying over, and repointing.

Fund Recommendation for Advisors

When on the phone with a member, Advisors needed a tool to help them select the right fund and to generate the right documentation for support and regulation.

Robo-Advisor

In 2016 we launched a trimmed-down investment advisor to compete with the headline-grabbing Wealthfront. Here are several areas where I contributed.

The Good, the Bad and the Web Design

A small sampling of past web design projects.Each project typically involved collaborating on the design, coding into a CMS, and setting up the server.

AI UI

Our rough dev projects in AI needed to be fashioned into a functional experience ready for employees, so I quickly built out a strategy.Below you can see the original document processor, where it extracts information from scanned PDFs of Purchase Sale Agreements (PSAs).

I wanted it in our main SaaS design system for easy integration and maintenance later on. I also wanted our novice users to be able to use it out of the box, so I identified UX interactions that needed major enhancement.Below you can see the redesign in the design system, with improved UX.

The legal property description can be extracted as well (left) and activity tracked (right).

Handwritten dates are turned into milestones.

As well as relative phrases. Either can be highlighted while reviewing.

I tasked a senior designer with building the standalone tool into our CRE SaaS (ClarityFirst) as a first integration. Throughout this process, we collaborated on the direction and specifics.(more screens to come)

Data Visualizations

When validating student skill levels, we needed to visualize each cohort as it compared to expectations (dashed line).Here is an initial functioning prototype in Grafana for how to display this.